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Family Tree Connection - Update (14/Feb/2010)

Family Tree Connection

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

Oak Park Woman's Society 1919-1920 Calendar - The Woman's Society of the Second Presbyterian Church, Oak Park, Ill, 1919-1920. Washington Blvd. and Ridgeland Ave.

Louisville University Dentistry School 1931 Graduation - University of Louisville, School of Dentistry, Annual Commencement Exercises, Thursday evening, June fourth, 1931, Memorial Auditorium, Fourth and Kentucky, Louisville, Ky.

Tressler Orphans' Home 1910 Re

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And the iGene Award Goes To

Welcome to the 2009 iGene Awards, spotlighting Tonia’s Roots. We’ll be celebrating thebest posts of 2009 and presenting awards for Best Picture, BestScreenplay, Best Documentary, and Best Biography.


The nominees for Best Picture are. . .

  • F. M. Kendrick
  • Mariah (Langston) Roberts
  • Mary Elizabeth (McEntire) Hemphill


And the winner is. . .
Mariah (Langston) Roberts! I love this photo. . .


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The Tonia’s Roots flag is flying, announcing my participation in theWinter 2010 Geneablogger Games. The base of my flag is the UnitedStates Stars and Stripes. My ancestors came to these shores centuriesago, so the bulk of my research takes place in the United States. Themiddle layer is the German flag, representing. . .

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If you live in or near St. Joseph, Missouri and are interested in genealogy you don’t want to forget to sign up for access to the online databases through the St. Joseph Public Library. You need to check with the librarian at the branch nearest you to activate your online access. You can find the opening page showing the general databases that are available and of interest to patrons in general at this page:

http://sjpl.lib.mo.us/index.php?sitearea=general&areapage=searchpage&id=23

Those specifica

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Monfort Research

After a hiatus from Genealogy research for about 10 yrs., I have resumed research of Monfort Families, trying to find the parents of AELTJE(LETTY) MONFORT who married JOHN SCOBEY in 1827 in Warren County, OH. These are my grgrgrandparents. LETTY died in 1833 and John Scobey married Margaret Monfort in 1836. My files are "bulging" with information on the Monfort families coming from NJ and NY, but can't tie in to any of these families. John Scobey was born in 1802 in NJ. I assume Letty was born a
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There is a appropriate analogy to many of the questions I am asked atthe Mesa Regional Family History Center, it is called building bridgesin the air. In genealogical terms it is called starting with the threebrothers that came from Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Norway orwhere ever. Quoting from Val Greenwood, (Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy.Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2000) page 4, "How foolish itwould be...to spend ten years (or even one year or

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The Stuff They were Made Of

As I sit here about mid-morning on February 12, 2010, pounding away on my unconnected netbook and, thus, on what is eerily like my last contact with the 21st Century, I let my mind wander back to the lives of my ancestors who lived out their time here in the 19th and earlier centuries without electricity and the electronic devices I have come to depend on for so much in my life.

I am reduced to such thoughts due to the power outage growing out of the seven-inch accumulation of snowfall. Power has

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Final Call for Papers, Family History Expo

Colorado Family History Expo. June 25-26, 2010

Midwest Family History Expo, July 30-31, 2010

Family History Expos, http://www.familyhistoryexpos.com/,is looking for presenters for their Colorado and MidwestExpos. Please read the followinginformation for more details.

Call for Papers deadline for the Colorado Family History Expo is February 15, 2010. Deadline for the Midwest Family History Expois March 1, 2010.

To learn more about other upcoming Family Histo

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Deborah Wilson, a Quaker in very Puritan Salem Village

Deborah Buffum was born in 1639 in Salem, Massachusetts. Her family was the Quaker Buffum family, headed by her father Robert, who was regularly fined for non-attendance at the Puritan meetings. She married Robert Wilson in Marblehead in 1658, and had at least two children, a Deborah and a Robert.

The records describe Deborah as a Quaker like her parents, and the town History “The Peabody Story” describes her as very young, modest and retirin

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Spring Place Cemetery

It was a nice day today, so I made a visit to Spring Place Cemetery. Ithad been many, many years since I had been to this cemetery. I wassearching for four headstones, in particular, but had hopes of findinga few more that might belong to my ancestors. I spent about an hourthere and wandered over the whole cemetery. . .

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Your Family History Research: What’s Holding You Back?



"What have you been putting off and what is holding you back in your family history research?"

Of course, there are plenty of good reasons for putting things off – timing is important and you can’t do everything at once however if you’re anything like me there are things that you know you probably should be doing that you’re simply procrastinating about.


One of the biggest procrastinations for me, up until last week, was ordering some German re
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Using professions to trace family members

Sally Douglas has several ancestors who were clock and watch makers, silversmiths and artists. Discovering this has led to a search of Douglases with this profession, using Pigots directory, and other listings.

Her findings have now been included in the Douglas Archives, although it is still very much work in progress.

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The above watch was made by James Douglas of Chertsey in 1774

Sons followed their fathers down the mines, daughters picked up seamstress skills from their mothers, sons followed thei
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How many digital books are there online?

The thought occurred to me to try and determine how many digitizedbooks are now (as of February, 2010) online. Then, I would try toestimate/guess how many of those are genealogy related.


I realize that the task is likely impossible, but I would like to havesome idea of the magnitude of the online book community. My first stopis Google Books. It appears that Google doesn't publicize the actual number of books scanned. But an article in the Official Google Blogof October 9, 2009 gave the total at m
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Ovington Brothers

There were some posts recently involving the Ovington Brothers. The Middagh family, one of the earliest Brooklyn families, owned the land upon which the Ovington Brothers buildings were built, the original building was torn down (1880?0, and a second building erected, which soon burned to the ground (1882?). Only a year later, a new building was opened upon the ruins of the old one. In each stage, the Middagh family renewed the Ovington Brothers' lease. This lease generated a cotroversy in the e

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I am constantly amazed by the Internet. It’s not like it’s something new but I regularly find myself wowed when I’m able to find something so easily, when only a few years ago it may have required days of research and possibly a cross-continent trip.

Yesterday I was at the home of a client that we are helping with a large photo archiving project. On the dining room table, where all the boxes and piles of photos and documents are waiting to be organized, was a burlap cap. I asked about it. They we
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Pulaski County, Little Rock Area of ARKANSAS

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arcemete/pulaski/pulaski.htm

Search for Nan Smith Bush

Social Security Death Index

Name: Nan Bush Date of Birth: Monday February 08, 1875

Date of Death: April 1968 Est. Age at death: 93 years, 2 months

Last known residence: City: Little Rock County: Pulaski

State: Arkansas ZIP Code: 72206

Social Security details:

State of Issue: Illinois

Number: 319-42-0737

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Kinch Family

Good Morning, I am looking for the parents of William Alexander Kinch b. 18 April 1816 d. 26 Oct 1851. He went by Alexander. Can anyone help.
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Schwichtenberg

I am interested in the Schwichtenberg name also. I have them in Ost Deep, Pommern. My ancestor is Christian. There is also a Friedrich who I think must be his brother. I don't know where they came from, etc. I would love to share any information. Terryps I asked to be your friend so I could email you. I thought I should let you know who I am.
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It is interesting to find a Blacksheep ancestor. They always leave behind court records! If you ever peruse the message boards at the International Black Sheep Society Genealogists ( http://IBSSG.org/blacksheep ) you will hear over and over again how the records left behind by some naughty or miscreant relatives helped family members to trace their genealogies. This was the case with me in investigating Baker Nason, and other relatives.

Baker Nason was the son of Richard Nason and Sarah Baker, bo

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