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I have decided to blog my way through a family history project. The idea is to add at least one generation to each of my family lines. In some cases, this should be relatively straight forward since there are some female lines that I haven't yet looked into. In other cases, I don't expect any progress - for example, my gg grandfather born in Newry in 1828 and his putative father. I also expect no progress with my illegitimate gg grandmother. Apart from the above Irish line, all my ancestral line

During the Civil War, my 2x great grandfather Joseph Gilman Allen spent six months as a guard on George’s Island in Boston Harbor. This was the site of Fort Warren, a prisoner of war camp, and a fort to guard the entrance of Boston’s large harbor. Other members of my family tree, George Washington Lane, George F. Wiggin, and Walter Davis Allen, all served at this large fort, as well as Joseph’s own brother, Hervey Allen.

Fort Warren was built just before the beginning of the Civil War. It served

Family Tree Connection has added the following genealogy items to its database:

New Hampshire State Prison 1868 Report - Annual Report of the Warden and Inspectors of the New Hampshire State Prison, Accompanied by the Reports of the Chaplain and Physician, Together with Other Documents Relating to the Affairs of the Prison, June Session, 1868. Includes a Register of Convicts in Prison, May 1, 1868.

Texas Grand Lodge 1876 Proceedings - Transactions of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templars and Ap

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In a recent post on InsideGoogle Books, Google announced completion of their digitizationproject with the University of Texas Libraries and the inclusion of over500,000 unique Latin American volumes into the Google Books index.Quoting from the announcement:

The spirit of migration is alive and well. The past, present, and future of international migration will come together in onelocation on March 18, in Salt LakeCity at an unprecedented Immigration Family HistoryExpo. For more information see the Family History Expos website at http://www.fhexpos.com/.

World Trade Center Utah President and CEO Lew Cramer will join the Center’s Executive Vice President and COO, Elizabeth Goryunova in anopening address at the event to be held at Historic Masonic Temp

I found an interesting biographical sketch of Moses Qualls in the Rootsweb Qualls-Quarles mailing list archives:

Before the Revolution, Moses moved to the West side of the Broad River near the present Lockhart, SC in Union County. He was a Loyalist during the Revolution, convictedof sedition by the American authorities and exiled to the British baseat Orangeburg, SC.

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Several years ago, it was a weekend, and we were bored. Of course, when my husband suggested a ride in the car, I pulled out my list of cemeteries to visit. (Only genealogists have backup lists of cemeteries for days such as this!) I decided on a cemetery in Woburn, and we set off with a full tank of gas, the camera, note book and family tree. Woburn is only an hour’s drive from home.

Our destination was the First Burial Ground in Woburn, Massachusetts. I had a list of ancestors from my father’s