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George Childs Dunmow Essex

Posted by Colin Childs on November 23, 2009 at 5:39am

Looking for information on George Henry Childs born Dunmow Essex between 1856 and 1864 according to census information. Wed Sarah Kemball Colchester Essex 1882 and went on to have 3 children. I have not been able to locate George's exact birth details. Marriage certificate lists him "of age" and census dates differ. Also no "George Henry" Childs born in the area for the period only "george" Childs. Can anyone help, even if you have details of any of the George Childs born in the period so that I

Family Tree Connection - Update (22/Nov/2009)

Posted by Illya Daddezio on November 22, 2009 at 11:58am

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

Alma P. E. O. Chapter B J 1924-1925 Calendar - 1924-1925, Alma, Nebraska, Chapter B J, P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization). Meetings 3:00 o'clock First and Third Tuesdays. Organized March 31, 1914.

The Mothers Club 1929-1930 Membership - The Mothers Club of Carrick, Pennsylvania. Organized 1913. Chartered 1923. Founder, Mrs. John M. Phillips.

Jerusalem Lutheran Brotherhood 1924 Membership - First Annual Mins

DAR Ancestor Search

Posted by The Genealogy Box on November 22, 2009 at 10:22am

DAR has opened up their online Genealogical Research System to the public. It includes the Ancestor Database which contains the lineage information from most of the verified DAR applications - under construction -.http://www.dar.org/library/online_research.cfm

Research Paper Published

Posted by Debbie Winchell (Loving Dove) on November 21, 2009 at 10:00pm

I am pleased to announce that my peer-reviewed research paper on my ancestor John Van Gelder has been published in New York State Museum Bulletin 511, Mohican Seminar 3, The Journey, An Algonquian Peoples Seminar, edited by Shirley W. Dunn. My paper, "The Impact of John Van Gelder: Mohican, Husbandman, and Historic Figure," is Chapter 10. It is a result of several years' research prompted by the biased and undocumented history that I found. This is my first published paper.John Van Gelder was th

Can your ancestors' bad deeds affect you generations later?

Posted by William Douglas on November 21, 2009 at 12:54pm

Nikki Mackay, who lives in the next village, author of The Science of Family: Working with Ancestral Patternssays you can blame your ancestors if you end up in doomed relationships, drink too much or generally just behave badly! Apparently, the events of previous generations can have far-reaching implications on the choices you make today. She believes it could be the reason why some people repeatedly select unsuitable partners or feel they make the wrong choices in life.Your ancestors are a hug

Cluster Genealogy in Shenandoah Co., VA

Posted by Debbie Winchell (Loving Dove) on November 21, 2009 at 11:28am

Since I haven't been able to find Esther Longenacker in Shenandoah County records yet, I decided to start with cluster genealogy. The bondsman for her marriage to Adam G. Baker was Adam Poke. It took a while to find out that his last name has also been recorded as Polk, Fuchs and Fox. Last night I found out that he attended the Old Pine Church in the county that was Lutheran and German Reformed. From reading entries in Rootsweb it looks like he came from either Berks or Philadelphia County, Penn

Comments on RootsMagic Essentials -- free genealogy program

Posted by James Tanner on November 20, 2009 at 7:30am

If you already have a copy of RootsMagic 4 on your computer and you try to download the new RootsMagic Essentials, you will end up with an update to your existing program but not a separate copy of the program. So if you want to see how the program runs, you left looking at the feature's list. I guess I will have to find someone without the program, since this is what happened to me when I tried to look at the new program for evaluation.From the features list, it looks like the program is a real

The John C. Proctor Home and Park

Posted by Judy Rosella Edwards on November 20, 2009 at 6:36am

In addition to being on the National Register of Historic Places, Proctor Center represents another example of Outdoor Genealogy. John C. Proctor donated the center to Peoria, Illinois, more than a century ago. The center officially opened in 1913.The Proctor family hailed from Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. The local academy, Proctor Academy in Andover, was named in honor of the Proctor family and founded by the Unitarian society.By some accounts, the Proctor family originated in No

The Ayes Ancestry

Posted by Ayesart on November 20, 2009 at 5:30am

D' Alez, de Alseto, d' Alest, d' Ales, d'Alles, D' Allez.En Langueduc des anciens comtes d' Alez et marquis d' Anduse. D' Apres le moine Thegan, historien du 10 siecle, cite par l auteur de l' histoire des regentes de France, les seigneurs de Anduse descendent des duc d' Aquitaine, issus de Bernard comte de Barcelonne, que Thegan dit etre de race royale en stirpe regali.Saint Guillaume, duc d' Aquitaine, de septimarie et de Bourgogne, Premier Prince d' Orange, comte d' Auvergue et Maire du palai

Use of abbreviations

Posted by William Douglas on November 19, 2009 at 3:16pm

I have just read the Genwise newsletter, and find one of my frustrations is built into the Genwise system.If I were to record an ancestor as being born, living or dieing in DG, would you know where i meant? It is an abbreviation for Dumfries and Galloway. But I would not expect Americans to know that.Yet, we non-Americans are expected to know your state abbreviations!Come on, guys, stop being lazy!

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 4

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 19, 2009 at 9:00am

The Hessian Soldier who stayed in the New World

Part four in my Thanksgiving series about ancestors who DIDN’T arrive in the New World on the Mayflower. My 4x great grandfather Johann Daniel Bollman was a surgeon from Hammersleben in Saxony, Germany. He came to North America with Baron de Riedesel’s Brunswick Regiment of Hessian Soldiers in 1776. The Duke of Brunswick had contracted with England to send 3,964 foot soldiers and cavalry to America. They arrived in Quebec and their military objectiv

Wiki FamilySearch Barn Raising Projects

Posted by James Tanner on November 19, 2009 at 7:48am

In the Beta version of the FamilySearch start page there is a link entitled "Learn." The link takes you to a new "Learning & How To's" page. I am impressed with the links provided on that page which lead to the FamilySearch Research Wiki. Although I am well aware of the huge amount of information pouring into the Wiki, it is apparent that FamilySearch is finally getting to the point where all of this information will become more accessible.Read more...

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 3

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 18, 2009 at 8:30pm

Prisoner of War aboard the ship “John and Sara”From Scotland to Boston, 1651This is part three of my miniseries of Thanksgiving blogs on the immigration of certain ancestors to America, during the week when our thoughts usually rest with our Mayflower passenger ancestors. My 7x great grandfather William Munroe arrived in Massachusetts a little more than thirty years after the Pilgrims settled in Plymouth. His immigration was forced as a prisoner of war and indentured servant, similar to the stor

My Current (Genealogical) Fantasy

Posted by Jeanie DiLeonardo on November 18, 2009 at 5:06pm

Someone invents a workable method of time travel and volunteers go back to each country/political unit's beginning and does whatever it takes to enact a law that all adult residents MUST register their vital statistics and a life history each year (and one for each of their minor children) and those MUST be kept in a destruction-proof repository. Yes, indeedy.And then maybe world peace, and end to hunger, and universal health care. : )

DAR Online Research!

Posted by Kate Steere on November 18, 2009 at 4:05pm

http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/This is great, if this had been available 3 years ago, my Evans research would have been an easy trip. :)

FamilySearch Alpha is now Beta

Posted by James Tanner on November 18, 2009 at 8:01am

For some time now, on Labs.FamilySearch, there has been an alpha version of the new homepage for FamilySearch. An announcement on November 17, 2009 introduced the beta version of the new homepage. The announcement was made on the FamilySearch Labs Blog. As explained in the announcement:The FamilySearch Beta is a project that will eventually replace the current www.FamilySearch.org website with a new site at the same address that integrates all of the new technologies and record sets we’ve been w

Lily Koppel’s “The Red Leather Diary”

Posted by Stefani Twyford on November 17, 2009 at 3:56pm

If you follow me on any of the social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, then you know a couple of weeks ago I spent the week in Valley Forge Pennsylvania at the Association of Personal Historians annual conference. It was an amazing five days (plus I tacked on another two to do some urban touring around Philadelphia), and I met some remarkable people and learned a lot. My last blog post was a general recap of the week there and some of the highlights but I would have to say that I wa

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 2

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 17, 2009 at 9:00am

Unknown Ship, from Rotterdam to Salem, MassachusettsThis is part two of a series of Thanksgiving blogs for my ancestors who DIDN’T come on the Mayflower. Today I’m thinking about my 3x great grandfather Peter Hoogerzeil. We don’t know the name of the ship he took to arrive in America, and we don’t know the date, but the other details of his immigration are so interesting my cousin wants to write them into a historical romance. I’ll let you be the judge!The Hoogerzeil family not only has an inter

Thanksgiving -- the end of New FamilySearch

Posted by James Tanner on November 16, 2009 at 6:48pm

Well, not really the end, just the end of the longest software introduction in the history of computers. The Salt Lake Temple District will be completely given access to New FamilySearch on November 23, 2009. They should probably declare a national holiday. Oh, they did. Only it is three days later on Thursday, November 26, 2009.Read more...

The Other Mayflowers Series

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 16, 2009 at 9:00am

1960 Lockheed Constellation- Madrid to New York CityThis week before Thanksgiving will be dedicated to blogging about my other family members and ancestors who came to the New World, not just my Mayflower ancestors. There are a lot to choose from, but I’m going to start with my mother and father-in-law, who arrived in New York City in 1960 aboard an Iberia Airlines Lockheed Constellation prop plane from Madrid, Spain. It was 340 years after my ancestors came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the m

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George Childs Dunmow Essex

Family Tree Connection - Update (22/Nov/2009)

DAR Ancestor Search

Research Paper Published

Can your ancestors' bad deeds affect you generations later?

Cluster Genealogy in Shenandoah Co., VA

Comments on RootsMagic Essentials -- free genealogy program

The John C. Proctor Home and Park

The Ayes Ancestry

Use of abbreviations

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 4

Wiki FamilySearch Barn Raising Projects

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 3

My Current (Genealogical) Fantasy

DAR Online Research!

FamilySearch Alpha is now Beta

Lily Koppel’s “The Red Leather Diary”

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 2

Thanksgiving -- the end of New FamilySearch

The Other Mayflowers Series

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