Today I learned about new technology which will change the way we "Google". For years, to search for something on the Internet, we used a search engine, typed in our phrase, and were shown a list of search results. Google is once again revolutionizing the way we find things.Click here to read the entire article.
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Posted by Leeann Boone on December 8, 2009 at 1:00am
Surprisingly and unfortunatly I havent heard much about Pearl Harbor yet. Infact the first time I heard it mentioned was during Monday Night Football Halftime show. I'd like to extend my thanks and condolences to families who lost loved ones that day and to those of you who served: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You truly are the greatest generation that ever lived.From USAtoday.comShareYahoo! Buzz Add to Mixx Facebook TwitterMore Fark Digg Reddit MySpace StumbleUpon Propeller LinkedInSu
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The day dawned and my heart was with my mind thinking of our lost servicemen and women from WW2 and other wars.I was young when this war happened and it affected almost every family of my parents siblings in one way or another.My husbands Uncle did not make it home. My Uncle's ship sank at Pearl Harbor. He got so mad at the Japanese he tossed his revolver ( no bullets) at the pilot of a plane when he buzzed the field and hit him in the head. He told us so many incidents that happened. He wrote u
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Greetings from wet, windy, rather cool southern California. Tree limbs down and trees down and debris all over.Home Depots garden area looked like a disaster zone. People were afraid to park near a tree the way they were whipping around near Starbucks. All the trees at Home Depot were down and rolling in the street or laying on their sides.We need the rain but we sure lost a lot to run off, so heavy, so fast and ground so dry. By this evening winds are flying around yet but rain has backed way o
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Posted by Lynn Palermo on December 7, 2009 at 4:41pm
This week, I read an article in the latest issue of NGS Magazine entitled What is a Family? by Harold E. Hinds Jr. The subject of this article was based on his Grandmother’s two bibles. These two bibles outlined two very different concepts of his family. Like many families, there were sometimes aspects of our ancestor’s lives that were considered in appropriate and so some of our relatives took it upon themselves to rewrite their families’ history.Today, we have a different situation. Our societ
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My great aunt (sister to my 4x great grandmother) was Mary Lambert Jones. She was born in Boston in 1803, married a sea captain, and removed to Chittenango, New York where her children were born. On April 23, 1837, aboard the bark “Jones” she arrived in Honolulu, Hawai’i with her husband, Captain John Dominis, and their little boy, John Owen Dominis. They had left two daughters in New York at school. Her brother-in-law, Robert W. Holt preceded her to Hawaii, but her sister, Ann Marie, had died i
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Posted by Steve Hayes on December 7, 2009 at 2:34am
One of the things I feel the need for as a research tool is an event database program, and I wonder if anyone else feels the need for auch a thing.Most lineage-linked genealogy programs allow one to enter and search events relating to people, but I see the need, in addition, to be able to search for people relating to events.In other words, one would enter events, and enter information about people who participated in the events, whether related to each other or not. This would help genealogists
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Posted by James Tanner on December 6, 2009 at 4:33pm
The term professional commonly means being paid or compensated for work rather than doing work for free. But, the word also implies excellence in the various skills employed by an individual in comparison to others less skilled. Historically, professionals sought prestige and mutual support from guilds. The guild system dates back into antiquity, pre-dating the Roman Empire in China and Egypt. Guilds, somewhat like modern labor unions, set professional standards and acted to protect the interest
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A man has left about £220,000 in his will to towns across the world which share his Douglas surname.Solicitors acting on behalf of Eric Gordon Douglas, from Edinburgh, have sent a cheque for £10,887.73 to Douglas Borough Council on the Isle of Man as part of the bequest.But the council for the island's capital has appealed for more information on Mr Douglas in order to recognise his donation.Council leader David Christian said: "There was around £220,000 left to 20 places across the globe that s
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Posted by James Tanner on December 5, 2009 at 1:15pm
January 22nd and 23rd will find me at the Mesa, Arizona Family History Expo where I have been asked to serve as a Blogger of Honor. To quote the Website:We have invited some very special 'Bloggers of Honor' to provide you with information on their blogs and via Twitter throughout the two-day Expo. Other attendees will be using Twitter to communicate highlights of the activities, share photos, and link to blog posts, while also providing additional related information.Everyone is invited to stop
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Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, taught school in Massachusetts, and died in Vermont, yet he will forever be loved as a New Hampshire Poet. He lived in New Hampshire between 1895 and 1938. His first book was title “North of Boston” and his fifth book was titled “New Hampshire”.As another nod to his Derry residence, Frost’s eighth book was titled “West Running Brook” after the stream near his farmstead. This fame has caused a collection of things in town to be named “West Runni
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Posted by James Tanner on December 4, 2009 at 8:04am
Technically, New FamilySearch is still in the Beta Test stage of its development, even though the program has been available to a limited number of users for over two years. In a Help Center release of December 4, 2009, the latest Beta Test version is designated the "new FamilySearch .99 beta." I would guess from this designation that a "final" release version is imminent, but given the long introduction time of the program, imminent may mean some considerable time yet. Recently, there has been
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Christmas Ornaments yes I have some, some rather old some rather new. I bought a New Hallmark for a grandchild today, in hopes it will serve as warm memories over years.Our first Christmas 50 years ago was spent apart. He was on Guam and I was with my family in California.I was to go to Guam but change of command changed all those plans.I shared Christmas with my family and as they upgraded their trimmings they would offer me the used items.I was delighted to have something for the future that c
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Posted by Lynn Palermo on December 3, 2009 at 1:24pm
Before entering into writing your family history book, one thing is key; organization. Hopefully, as you have been researching your ancestors leading up to writing your book, you have put an organizational system in place for your research. However, if you haven't, then it is still not too late to get organized. If your goal from the beginning has been to create a family history book then how you organize your research can aid in the writing of your book. If you haven't put a system in place pri
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Posted by bruce butler on December 3, 2009 at 11:19am
My mission in life is helping Veterans, many veterans do not have their medals, docs, va health care. Please let me know if you know any veterans who need my free help. I was just able to help a shipmate who was not able to get his medals since 1963, in 6 weeks he got his medals including a Bronze Star.Bruce,Seaweedman
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The days before Christmas are filled with much meaning.The hours before Christmas fill me with care.I am hoping the thanks for the family and friendswill bring a new warming amongst humans.Each day is filled with meaning and purpose andprayer.May we present ourselves in a manner thatGod is pleased.The world is large and many are hungrywe are a nation of much that can share.Let us hope we can make this a stime to care.Let's share our caring into the New Year.Peace on Earth Good will to all humans
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Posted by James Tanner on December 1, 2009 at 4:59pm
Where do you go to get started in genealogy? Even if you have been involved in genealogy for years, where do you go to be reminded of how to research effectively? What if you are asked about how to get started? What do you say? There are quite a few how-to books but they are generally more than a few pages long and don't lend themselves to answering immediate questions. OK, if I asked the question, it must have an opinion about the answer. The answer is, you may wish to consider using the resour
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From Cape Code to Nova Scotia to Beverly, MassachusettsMy ancestor Joseph Edwin Healey arrived in Massachusetts from Nova Scotia sometime between his marriage in 1848 and the birth of his first child in Beverly, in 1852. I’m not sure if he arrived on a boat, but being a mariner, he probably sailed to his new home with his new bride. He is listed as a sailor or mariner on his children’s birth records in Beverly, and as a fisherman on the 1860 Federal Census records.His wife was Matilda Weston, al
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While a lot of genealogical research can feel like you’re just slowly sifting your way through a soggy mountain of old data to occasionally discover a few tiny grains of precious family history, once in awhile your heart leaps with the thrill of finding those golden nuggets which add to the genuinely rich heritage that is the family saga.As a direct descendant of some of California’s earliest European explorers and settlers, I am also related to most of the other early Spanish colonial period fa
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