Posted by Leeann Boone on December 13, 2009 at 6:28pm
1930 WI state census for Sina: 1930 wife of head of household lived in Milwaukee,Milwaukee,WI wife of Henry S. Heldahl mother Einar who was 6 in 1930. Approximate DOB 1899. She was the first mother in law of my great aunt Helen.
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My GG Grandfather was William Fletcher wife Alsemena Waffle married in New York 1850 moved to Northfield in 1855. Had 5 children one was my G Grandfather Wilard Jay Fletcher b:1861 Northfield m: Calista Sommers had 2 boys Clifford and Russel Jay b:1898 Northfield my Grandfather. Looking to find any of his cousins and fill in a lot of the blank spaces and brick walls. Look forward to any replys and hope I can be of some help to others as well.Valerie ;-)
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Posted by James Tanner on December 13, 2009 at 3:45pm
After two consecutive Beta test runs, FamilySearch has introduced some more major changes to the New FamilySearch program. Anyone, even if you cannot register yet for New FamilySearch, can see the changes. Just click on the News and Updates link from the home screen.Chief among the many changes is the introduction of the Family Tree interface, long available on the Labs.FamilySearch.org Website. By clicking a Change View button from the familiar Family Pedigree (3 generation) view of the user's
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My daughter lives in Back Bay, Boston. It’s a lovely neighborhood for walking, and my favorite section has always been the Commonwealth Mall. It’s a green oasis in the city, a long avenue divided by a green park dotted with statuary of famous Bostonians. I had never examined these statues up close until recently, when I noticed that all the statues seemed to be literary figures. One of my favorite statues is that of Samuel Eliot Morison.Morison was a famous Boston Brahmin, an Admiral, and most f
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What is her Soule lineage? She was born after the book "Lee Family of Virginia" by Edm. Jennings Lee, Esq., was published listing her older siblings; Charles Carter Lee, of Rocky Mount, N.C., LtCol Robert Henry "Marse" Lee b1890, West Point classs of 1912; and Mrs. Lillian Virgina Woollen Lee. Their youngest sister, Mrs. Lillim Elizabeth "Muttie" Woollen Lee, reared her twenty years younger sister, Ruby Valerie "Tee" Woollen (Miller), b1885, my grandmotherr. Lillian's Husband was book salesman H
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Posted by Leeann Boone on December 11, 2009 at 6:45pm
Interesting details discovered during the process of indexing the British 1881 Census. (Found in the Ensign magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, March 1996, p. 58.)* The wife, mother, and daughter of James Christmas were all named Mary Christmas* Frank Guest was listed as a visitor* Harriet Goodhand was listed as a domestic servant* The families of William Lovegrove, Henry Dearlove, and William Darling all lived on the same block in Oxfordshire* A woman named Rose married
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Posted by Leeann Boone on December 11, 2009 at 6:43pm
BEETHOVEN'S NINTHA tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source.He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770- 1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, th
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Posted by Leeann Boone on December 11, 2009 at 6:15pm
Found these while surfing the web. I'll posting in multiple entries since I found alot I'd like to share."From those women and menof great spirit, intelligence, and strengthwho came before us and said 'yes' to life,may we embody the best of their qualities.In gratitude for their lives lived,let us now continue to build a worldbased on love, and on our inherited wisdomabout the oneness of the Creator and of the Creationin all its fabulous diversity of nations, races religions, species.As sure as
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Writing a letter or typing an email just got personal again.Reading a hand-typed letter from a loved one just does not have the personal touch of a handwritten letter. I have some beautifully-written love notes that my great-grandparents wrote to each other before they were married. Imagine if these notes were typed by a computer?With this new technology, you can (almost) have the best of both worlds. FontCapture will turn your own handwriting into your personal font that you can use when writin
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Posted by James Tanner on December 11, 2009 at 7:26am
I have a continuing interest in Australian genealogy records, although I admit I haven't done as much as needs to be done, because part of my family immigrated from England to Australia and then a smaller part came to the U.S. The National Archives of Australia has a very impressive Website with tens of thousands of digitized records, the Mapping our Anzacs Website. The scanned image above comes from an online collection of hundreds of thousands of military records maintained by the National Arc
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Posted by Lynn Palermo on December 10, 2009 at 4:01pm
I came across this job posting and felt some of you may be interested. I thought this was a great way for the genealogy community to give back, to the many who recorded all those wonderful documents we value today in our research. Plus, here’s an opportunity for you to insure future genealogists get accurate information. This is a paying job.This is a US census so it only applies to my American friends.You can apply at http://2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs/Below is a brief description from their
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Posted by James Tanner on December 10, 2009 at 8:06am
December 8, 2009 brings significant additions to FamilySearch's Record Search collection of world wide genealogy source material. In addition to Australian, Mexican and Argentine records, there were additions to the U.S. States of Arkansas and Indiana. The references here to the "Wiki" are to the Family Search Research Wiki reference for that collection. The following collections were added:Read more...Read more…
Posted by James Tanner on December 9, 2009 at 8:56pm
There is no doubt that using a digital camera is a boon to all researchers and particularly to those doing genealogical research. A survey in 2006 of professional photographers showed that over 80 percent were using digital cameras as opposed to film. That trend has undoubtedly continued. Genealogists benefit from this transition to digital cameras because you can use your camera to record information directly from books, microfilm and onsite visits, such as those to cemeteries. In years past, t
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Last year I saw a TV newscast about the work of Edward Rowe Snow and the Flying Santa program in New England. It was a service provided by Wiggins Airways, and every time I pass by the Manchester Airport and see the Wiggins sign, I think of the Flying Santas – even in the heat of summer!Since colonial times the New England lighthouses were manned by families, and in 1929 William Wincapaw started a tradition of dropping presents from Santa from planes to children of lighthouse keepers. In the foo
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Posted by Lynn Palermo on December 9, 2009 at 5:25pm
Last week I posted about getting your genealogy research organized so that you can get ready to start writing your family history book. By organizing your information, you should now have a better knowledge of what you have in your arsenal to create your book.The size of your family history book can vary. It may be a small booklet of a dozen photocopied pages but together in project folder to a large 200-page full colour coffee table style book. Only you can decide which challenge you are up for
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A friend sent me this and I thought it was to profound to pass up.While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked up astone andscratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man tookthe child's hand and hit it many times; not realizinghe was using a wrench.At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures.When the child saw his father.....with painful eyes he asked,'Dad when will my fingers grow back?' The man was so hurtand speechless; he went back
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Last week the American Chronicle published a beautiful article about what it is we do here at Legacy Multimedia.While it’s always great to get PR, I particularly like this article because I felt that writer Pam Vetter asked the right questions and framed all the responses into a context that really gets to the essence of what it is that we do.Because the process of creating a video biography or personal history is so detailed, it’s difficult to communicate in an elevator speech (that is how much
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