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Parade of States --- online digital genealogy resources -- Alabama

Posted by James Tanner on September 15, 2009 at 8:51pm
With this post, I start a new series. I will devote one post (or more) to each state's online digital archive collections useful to genealogists. I do not pretend that my list will all inclusive, I think that might be a physical impossibility since new collections are coming online at a furious rate. Where appropriate, I will comment on the content of the sites.Read more...
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DNA

Posted by Jay'me Helen Boughner on September 15, 2009 at 8:25pm
Well, here I am again...havent made much progress on my genealogy lately. Im excited because my grandsons Y-DNA results were just posted on Sorensons. However, Sorensons doesnt assign a haplogroup to his results. They want you to go to another site, pay them, and they will interpret the results. If I were rich that wouldnt be a problem, but...we all know that times are a bit rough right now. Im dying to know his results though because there is supposedly some Native American in there somewhere,
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A family historian reads American history: variation on a poem by Brecht

Posted by Unknown Ancestor on September 15, 2009 at 12:48pm
A FAMILY HISTORIAN READS AMERICAN HISTORYWho sailed the seas to the colonies?The books all hail the Mayflower.Do others have ancestors venturing besides?And many slaves, so many times maligned, who sold and bought them up each time?In which of Boston's houses, that city bustling with churches, lived those who built it?In evenings when General Washington crossed riverswhere did the rowers go?City Washington is full of monuments grand. Who reared them up? Over whom did Founding Fathers smile?Old N
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UNESCO Archive Portal

Posted by James Tanner on September 15, 2009 at 8:48am
Just when you might possibly believe that there were no more huge collections of online genealogy resources, along comes The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization with its Archives Portal. Styled as an international gateway to information for archivists and archives users,Read more...
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Posted by Cheltenham4u on September 15, 2009 at 7:52am
DE VAN MEULBROUCK FAMILYI'm a Cheltonian living in the Middle East at present, so my research is all online at the moment. I am researching my Grandfather's family. Alphonse de Van Meulbrouck (born about 1847) was from Roubaix, France. I'm not sure when he arrived in UK but his wife Elenor was from Worcester. They ran a common lodging house on Grove Street (nos 2 & 4). Their son Alphonse Meulbrouck (the de van started to disappear in some records) born in about 1876 married Edith Jane (from Chel
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Posted by Cheltenham4u on September 15, 2009 at 7:51am
THE CROSS FAMILYLouisa Little (known as Mary) married my great-grandfather Charles Cook. Her mother Frances Cross (c.1820-1848) is known to be married to James Little b. in Cheltenham 1812, a plasterer. However, I cannot trace Frances' birth or her marriage to James (thought to be 1842-3). The family believe that the Crosses had a musical background. Also there is a family tale that Frances was the offspring of a French noble family (De Croy or Du Cros) who escaped France from either the French
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Impossible without its historic background

Posted by James Tanner on September 14, 2009 at 8:44pm
"A thorough understanding of the modern land law is impossible without a knowledge of its historical background." Moynihan, Cornelius J. Introduction to the Law of Real Property: An Historical Background of the Common Law of Real Property and Its Modern Application. St. Paul, Minn: West Pub. Co, 1962.Read more...
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Benjamin Schmidt book

Posted by Rita Schmidt Martin on September 14, 2009 at 8:44pm
Printed out the draft for the Benjamin book. Still have some work to do but mostly done. Just realized that i don't have the picture of Catherine in it.Headed to Ks this week. Want to spend some time at the Archives in Newton - also have a list of graves I need photos of in Greensburg.Schmidt reunion is Sunday.
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Genealogy and Me

Posted by Robert Crabtree on September 14, 2009 at 1:28pm
I was sitting at my computor one night when a commercial came on TV for Ancestry.com. I thought to myself, here I am in my mid 60's and I don't even know the name of my great grandfather. Most of my family had passed away or I had lost contact with them. At first I didn't want to spend any money to find things but finally joined Ancestry.com. I now have about 14,000 people in my tree and finding more every day. I have joined another tree that has over 4000 CRABTREEs in it and thousands of other
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Daniel Horowitz - Genealogy and Translation Manager of MyHeritage.com - August genealogy USA tour. Part I of II

Posted by Daniel Horowitz on September 14, 2009 at 6:28am
After a month and a bit more on the road, I'm now back home. It's time to take a break before my interview on Sep. 15 with Susan E. King and tell you all about my genealogy tour in the US during the month of August.My first stop was in New Jersey where I spoke to the Genealogical Society of Bergen County in Ridgewood. More than 50 people heard about the latest MyHeritage.com tools to help genealogists with their research and keep families in better contact.Daniel Horowitz at Bernards Family History Interest GroupThe public library where the society me
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The theory of estates in land for genealogists

Posted by James Tanner on September 13, 2009 at 10:15pm
You might as well face it, the amount of information contained in land records is huge, but it is locked up in arcane and often obsolete legal terminology. Understanding the language unlocks the information in these old records. The modern concept of land ownership or estates have their origins in the 13th Century in England and the methods of land ownership in the United States are derived almost entirely from very early English precedents. The word "estate" itself, dates from feudal times and
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The Clutter in the Attic

Posted by Cindy M on September 13, 2009 at 5:44pm
After quite a hiatus from doing much genealogy research, it's now time to take out all the clutter I've accumulated. As in clutter, I suppose you can say my research has co-mingled. Not a good thing when your trying to organize your family roots. I have tried to do research on several different family branches, at one time they each had their own place and I kept them that way. Through the years I have been a little haphazard with the record keeping. I have everything, but it's certainly not whe
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Collecting names vs. family history

Posted by James Tanner on September 13, 2009 at 2:53pm
From time to time, I encounter individuals who have huge family files comprising tens of thousands of names. These people, who I will call name collectors, seem intent on compiling the largest collection of names possible. Usually, they have absolutely no idea who any of the people actually are, but they take pride in the huge number of individuals. Name collectors are neither genealogists nor family historians. With today's technology and a few GEDCOM files anyone can have a huge collection of
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Bubonic Plague In The United States of America

Posted by Spivey on September 13, 2009 at 2:48pm
My mother was born in 1915, and she and her 11 siblings all survived to adulthood to raise families of their own. She and her siblings were born during the period the Bubonic Plague was ravaging the United States, but perhaps because they lived on a farm in Millen, Jenkins County, Georgia, they survived since their exposure was probably minimal.My daughter's grandfather was not so fortunate. He lived in Elloree, Orangeburg, South Carolina and died of the plague in April, 1918. He did not live on
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Family Tree Connection - Update (13/Sep/2009)

Posted by Illya Daddezio on September 13, 2009 at 2:17pm
Family Tree Connection

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

Boston Seaman's Friend Society 1836 Report - Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston Seaman's Friend Society, Presented May 25, 1836.

Boston Seaman's Friend Society 1833 Report - Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston Seaman's Friend Society, Presented January 2, 1833.

Boston Seaman's Friend Society 1831 Report - Third Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston Seaman

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Pauline P. Johnson and Isaac Newton Griffith

Posted by William S Dean on September 13, 2009 at 9:30am
When she was eighteen, Pauline P. Johnson went against her family’s long-standing Quaker traditions and married another lapsed Quaker, Isaac Newton Griffith. Pauline was descended from the Johnsons of Scotland and the Moormans from Isle of Wight, England, who had come to Virginia as early as 1619.Thomas Moorman returned to England after serving a year in the service of the Virginia Company of London and was granted property. Although Thomas never returned from England, his son, Zacariah Moorman,
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The Objects and Memory Project

Posted by Stefani Twyford on September 12, 2009 at 4:30pm
From The Objects and Memory Project web site:"The documentary film and educational initiative Objects and Memory is about how we respond to history while it is happening and how we tell our stories through the otherwise ordinary things in our homes and museums that are associated with people, places, and events.The film was the PBS national prime time special in commemoration of the seventh anniversary of 9/11. With narration by Frank Langella and music by Philip Glass, Objects and Memory invite
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