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FamilySearchRecord Search has added over 500,000 records from the Cook County,Illinois Birth Certificate records. The collection includes the City ofChicago and covers the time period from 1878 to 1922 containing over 1.5million names. New records were also added to the Netherlands, GelderlandProvince Civil Registration. The collection contains only images but theare arranged by municipality.
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Genealogy Supermarket

Introducing GenealogySupermarket the place to buy, sell or swap your genealogy items free with our free ads!

We have just started this new website www.genealogysupermarket.com for people who have found items that would interest others, perhaps something they have been searching for, a family bible found in a jumble sale, a post card from an ancestor, a rare or hard to find book. The list is endless.

Look forward to seeing what items you might want to pass on!


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The Kindness of Strangers

A few weeks ago, I posted about Find a Grave.One of the features they offers is a “Request a Photo” program. Usersof the website can volunteer to take headstone photographs and Find aGrave keeps track of their locations. When another user requests aphoto from a particular cemetery, the website sends out an automaticemail to volunteers in that area, letting them know for which headstonea photo has been requested . . .

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From: Patricia Max <pam@lampinc.com>
>> Subject: [IAJASPER] FYI
>> To: iajasper@rootsweb.com
>> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 4:41 AM



>> The archivist, David S. Ferriero, can
>> be reached by email at
>> research@nara.gov.

>> The website listed below has addresses for others
>> that you may contact.
>>
>> Patricia Max
>>
>>
>>> The Census Bureau and the National Archives have
>>>
>> agreed to throw out the
>>
>>> 2010 census forms after archiving statistical data.
>>>
>> This means that
>>
>>> seventy-two yea
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WorldCat.org, Google Books and more...

WorldCat.org is a major international connection to over 10,000libraries worldwide and catalogs over 1.5 billion items. Google Bookscontains over 10,000,000 digitized books and magazines. WorldCat.organd Google Books are now interlinked. If you search for a book onGoogle Books and find the item, one of the options is to find the itemin a library. Clicking on this option gives you a link to WorldCat.org.The WorldCat search for the item gives you the full citation, areference to every edition of t
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Edwin Lee was born January 14,1814 in Green, New York, Broome County. He married Harriett French in New York February 15, 1840. They had 4 children - Alamanson, Polly Jane, Charles and Morris. Morris is my great grandfather.

Trying to locate Edwin and his family in census has not been alot of fun. They just simply cannot be found. Edwin was a barge canal captain on the Chenango Canal so I'm wondering when the census was taken they were on the barges. Harriet passed in 1860 and Edwin remarried Lou

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Worldwide Top Genealogy Sites

Hey there!

This will only take a few seconds. They reset the Worldwide Top Sites for Genealogy again. If you click on the following link, Worldwide Top Sites, you can vote for ShoeStringGenealogy.com, my free genealogy website. Just click on the underlined link on the window that appears.

I'd greatly appreciate it, and it will help put ShoeString in the top ten, thus enabling more people to visit and perhaps better research THEIR own family history.

Thank you!

Happy Dae·ShoeString Genealogy

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Anarticle in Mormon Times, opens the door for almost the first time,to a main stream airing of some of the most glaring problems with New FamilySearch.Although the article is low key, it points out some of more difficultissues with the program. If you have been following the development ofthe program at all, you will immediately recognize the fact that this isone of the first times this many issues have been acknowledged in avery public manner, even if the Mormon Times is somewhat removed fromth
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Golding Family House Painters

I am the great-great-grandaughter of James Golding and Maria Humphris. They married in 1849. He was a house painter. They had I think 8 surviving children - Maria, Elizabeth, James (my grandfather) Jane, William, Emily, Sarah and Anne. James employed his 3 sons, James, William and Edwin as housepainters, until James immigrated to Australia in 1883. They lived variously in Charlton Kings, Guiting Power, and Bouron-on-the-water. In the 1870s they settled more permanently in Regent St Cheltenham. I
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Today we were able to watch a segment on Faces of America. The hope to encourage people to learn more about whom they are and whom in their back ground helped to make them whom they are.

It was great with the diversity of the people interviewed and researched, to learn that there was even an interconnect between two of them. No I will not tell the whom's.

Then in the blog GenealogyBank.com by Thomas Kemp there was a great start of how to start your Genealogy. It was labeled (Genealogy Boot Camp
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The Underground Railroad was neither Underground, nor was it a Railroad. It was in essence a series of conductors, safe houses, trails along rivers, secret routes, sometimes walking, and other times hiding in wagons. Before Europeans arrived, North and South America was comprised of thousands of Native American Tribes. Native Cultures date back at least ten thousand years, having traveled over the Bering Strait into North America. As America was Colonized, the Native population was reduced by di

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Researching genealogy at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, now over 200years old, is recognized as the largest library in the United States andhas claims to being the largest library in the world. Its collectionsare described as follows:

In 1992, the Libraryacquired its 100 millionth item. The collections now includeapproximately fifteen million books, thirty-nine million manuscripts,thirteen million photographs, four million maps, more thanthree-and-a-half million pieces of music, and more than half a millionmotion pictures. The
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New Book on German Emigration

Udo Thoerner’s History of Emigration

from Venne, Germany to America

Thörner, Udo. Venne in America: The historical account of the emigration from a Lower Saxony Village in Germany to the Americas in the 19th century. Rosalie Horstman Haines, tr.; 323 pp., 2008. ($32, incl pstg from Hamilton County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 15865, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215).

Note by "Genealogywise" member: Udo Thoerner was a wonderful friend who opened so many doors into my husband's family history

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I have been working on preparing a presentation I am giving on March 2 at the Abundant Living Conference at Camp Allen. The conference spans 3 days and is billed as “Explore aging as a spiritual journey-grow mentally, socially and creatively. Come, relax, enjoy… celebrate the years!” The setting is a beautiful one, deep in the Piney Woods. I have never been to Camp Allen. In fact, it’s been many years since I’ve been to any ‘camp’ at all so I’m looking forward to seeing what Camp Allen has to of

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John Dominis AKA Aimoku

I’ve learned quite a few facts about my cousins from the Hawaiian newspapers. From obituaries I’ve learned their burial places, information about their arrival in Hawaii, occupations, funeral arrangements, etc. I also learned a few other interesting bits of trivia…

#1 Being the Prince Consort to the Queen of Hawaii doesn’t mean that certain legal obligations can be forgotten. It was very interesting to read in the legal notices of the The Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu) 1865-19

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Testamento 3

3 Testamento.
Zacatecas, 23 de abril 1678. Ana de Chirriaga, hija legítima de Martín de Chirriaga y Ana de Covela, difuntos, mineros, vecino fueron de esta ciudad y ella originaria de ella, sus hermanos fueron María de Chirriaga, y el bachiller Nicolás de Chiriaga cura propio beneficiario de esta ciudad a quien nombra albacea. Sus herederos son Martín de Chirriaga, hijos de su hermano Martín. Firman como testigo Juan Antonio Bernal. fjs.(48-48v)
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Testamento 2

estamento.
Zacatecas, 17 de mayo1673. María de Chirriaga, vecina, hija legítima del capitán Martín de Chirriaga, y Ana de Zavala, difuntos, vecinos fueron de esta ciudad, y ella originaria de la misma. Otorga testamento y declara por su hermana a Ana de Chirriaga legítima mujer de Juan Cenlargo, pide que se funde una capellanía y capellanes sus sobrinos Martín y Andrés de Chirriaga, hijos legítimos de su hermano Martín de Chirriaga difunto y de Francisca Rendón. Albacea el bachiller Nicolás de Ch
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