We get a lot old format film transferred to DVD work and I wanted to take the time to discuss this and our perspective on it.Lots of you have boxes of old film laying around in the closets. Some of you have projectors but most of you don’t and therefore haven’t viewed the film in many years. Some of you may be reconciling the estate of a parent and didn’t realize how much footage they actually had.Regardless of the circumstances and whether you have the projector or not, you’ll likely want get t
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Techniques and Technology Have Changed the Face of Family HistoryWhen you look inside your family, you look inside yourself. Family history research is a wonderful way to discover a past that can help you understand the present and plan for the future.There are few hard and fast rules about family history research. Your research is exactly what you make of it. People conduct family history research for many reasons. Some want to document family lines for present and future generations. Others pe
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It took a little while, but I think I have finally figured out what the hand stamed entry on a 1963 SS5 form stands for.While it is not a major clue, at least I know what it means.There is a link to the image of the SS5 form here:http://www.rootdig.com/2009/09/ss-5-card-and-that-stamp.htmlAfter getting a few suggestions of what it could stand for, I googled it with the words "social secutiry" and came up with some interesting webpages.Michael
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Hey everybody and Happy Labor Day weekend,I am working on a project that involves the history and architect of the coast of NC. It begins at the furthest northern point (Knotts Island area) to the furthest southern point (Sunset Point area). I am including the inner banks which would include east of Hwy 13/17 starting at Corapeake traveling south towards Washington on Hwy 17 towards New Bern, Wilmington, and Shallotte going all the way to Carolina Shores (it’s near Calabash).I am looking for picRead more…
Y'all might have noticed that just a couple days ago the FamilySearch Record Search Pilot took on a new look - new fonts, new color scheme, new layout - that sort of thing. Scared me, at first, to tell the truth, fearing that I was going to have to figure out how to get all those great indexed records and images all over again! But a quick perusal calmed my fears, that it's still the same Record Search Pilot site, with a minor cosmetic makeover, and just a couple other changes.Today, at the FGS
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Hey All,Well school is back in session and have been really swamped the last two weeks. Hoping to go graveyard hunting this weekend and work on a story that someone sent me for Graveyard Rabbits of Wichita County Texas. Long weekend coming up, so hoping to get a lot accomplished.
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I have dusted off my old Rucker Family info and plan to get down to the serious business of documenting the Rucker family. I have quite a bit of information on the family but most of it has been unproven as far as tying into my line. This all changed this past Sunday when I met a cousin at the Barker Family Reunion. This gentleman shares my Rucker line and gave me verbal confirmation that my great great grandmother Rucker does indeed tie into the Rucker family I have been collecting info for sev
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Besides going to the Reunion, I took some genealogy along, wassn't as organized as I should have been. Actually I almost didn't get to go. My Husband was put into the hospital on Friday, he insisted I go, had he not been in the hospital and at home I would not have gone. He is home now and doing much better.My side of the family is from the Denver area and a good many of them are buried in three of the main cemetaries, Riverside, Fairmont and Crown Hill. Fortunately I did call ahead to find out
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This last weekend I ventured from very rural Wyoming, our town Rock River population 250 to the big, big, big city of Denver, Colorado for my 40th High School Reunion. Go North.This is a fairly big deal as the only real traffic we see up here is maybe 4 or 5 cars as we go to Laramie, unless its game day. So getting on the interstate is, for me a bit stressfull, thank goodness it was a weekend. I got to Denver and got onto Wadsworth Blvd. which is a fairly familar road for me, and was making note
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A photo, early 1950's, of Carrie (Batchelder) Allen wearing the gold nugget, surrounded by her descendantsGeorge Emerson’s parents were from New Hampshire, raised in Milford and removing to South Boston, Massachusetts sometime soon after their marriage in 1810. George was born in 1817, and married Mary Esther Younger in 1845. He was listed as a “boot and shoe worker.” This young family had two babies by the time gold was found in California in 1848.Like many young men of the time, the call to go
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Posted by Pam McCreary on September 2, 2009 at 9:34am
There's nothing like having a breakthrough. Yes, I have located cousins!!! These are cousins from my paternal grandfather's side of the family - Woohoo!I can't erase the smile from my face, this is awesome. I can't wait to talk more with them. Hopefully, they have pictures that I don't have. Ohhhh, the possibilities!
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Posted by James Tanner on September 2, 2009 at 8:56am
Record Search 2.0, the newest version of FamilySearch's rapidly increasing database of images from the FamilySearch Indexing project has a new look and and a completely different homepage.The changes to the program include the following, quoting from the FamilySearch Labs blog:Read more...Read more…
The Dakota Memories Oral History Project’s (DMOHP) mission is to preservethe history and heritage of the second- and third-generation Germans fromRussia. Since the project’s 2005 inception, organizers have focused onchildhood memories and family relationships. In short, we chronicle what itwas like growing up German-Russian on the Northern Plains.Dakota Memories Oral History ProjectRead more…
Date: 2009-11-28Description: 376th HEAVY BOMBARDMENT ORAL HISTORY PROJECT now webstreamed on the internet! Ball State University LibrariesArchives and Special Collections is now home to an excellentonline oral history resource. In 2007, more than forty veteranswere interviewed at a reunion of the 376th Heavy Bombardment376th HEAVY BOMBARDMENT ORAL HISTORY PROJECTRead more…
Well now this is a challenge. One hundred years ago my ancestors were well established in Ontario. Where were they two hundred years ago. It is hard sometimes to describe Upper Canada as it was two hundred years ago. It was a British colony and utterly dependant on Britain. The majority of the people in Upper Canada were what we call United Empire Loyalists. Population was centered around the Niagara and Kingston. London did not exist. The Talbot Settlement along Lake Erie was just getting going
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Hi Everyone!I have been using www.findagrave.com to locate and add Headstones for those that have preceeded us in this life. The URL is www.findagrave.com. If you do not find whom you are looking for, Add them and request a photo be taken and added to your memorial.Thank You;Mr. Michael A. Orr
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FamilySearch awards Legacy with official certificationSURPRISE, Arizona – September 1, 2009 – Millennia Corporation today announced that its family tree software, Legacy Family Tree, has received official certification from FamilySearch.Users of Legacy will soon be able to synchronize with, backup, and publish their information to FamilySearch’s Family Tree. These capabilities will be included in Legacy’s Standard (free) and Deluxe Editions. It will also soon provide support for LDS members incl
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In the last two days I've acquired some significant new information related to one of my family lines. If the resultant bouyancy I'm experiencing were ice cream, I'd eat the entire half gallon. There are such long dry periods. The dicouragement creeps up on me. I become frustrated, petulant --- sometimes to the point of saying, "What IS the point of all this?" I've even wanted simply to walk away from my work and shirk off the feeling of responsiblity that this project carries for me. Then, when
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