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My Beautiful Welcome to GenealogyWise

Posted by Spivey on August 31, 2009 at 9:11am

Thanks for the warm welcome I have received. I think I have been looking for a place like this for the 12 years I have been involved in genealogy research. I have two places I have been with for over 10 years, but they are Yahoo! Groups. This forum offers so much more and it is just what a genealogist needs in the days when the 'free' providers are cutting back. Thanks ever so much, and I hope this forum is around for a long, long, time. Spivey

Shameless Plug or PSA, however you want to look at it

Posted by Jeanie DiLeonardo on August 30, 2009 at 10:01pm

One of the toughest things in genealogy can be figuring out where people went and/or came from, of course. I'm particularly stuck on the PARKER brick wall at the moment, which never gets me anywhere. My great-great grandmother Mary Parker (sometimes listed on censuses with the middle initial J, and whose daughter and my great-grandmother was Mary Jane Wade) married my great-great grandfather George W. Wade in 1876 in Clam Lake, Wexford County, Michigan. The marriage certificate says she was 17 a

Dare I?

Posted by Katie Heitert Wilkinson on August 30, 2009 at 1:15pm

Last night I found addresses and phone numbers for individuals in Reading, PA, who might be distant cousins. I need to make some cold calls, but I'm balking. Both people are up in years. Am I invading their privacy and their quiet? But they could possibly provide me valuabe family information. I'm not usually indecisive or hesitant about doing new things. For some reason, though, I feel a knot in my stomach when I contemplate reaching out through these calls.

Where's your family from? or how I got started in Genealogy

Posted by Sharon Ray on August 30, 2009 at 1:08pm

Do you know that kind of know it all kid we all had in class when we were growing up? The one that always had the right answers and sometimes corrected the teacher. Well that was me growing up. I was always able to remember those odds and ends pieces of information that the teachers would test you on. I was really bad back when I was in the seventh grade. I would get tests back with answers marked wrong, then go back to the teacher and prove that my answer was the correct one. I laugh about it n

Samual Shores

Posted by Susan E. Safford on August 30, 2009 at 12:51pm

Sandy - I am descended from Samuel Shores and Polly Stephens through two of their sons - Joshua and Caleb. Do you have information on Samuel and Polly from thier New Jersey years? Thank you.Susan Safford

Family Tree Connection - Update (30/Aug/2009)

Posted by Illya Daddezio on August 30, 2009 at 12:03pm

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

Manhattan Club 1905 List of Members - Manhattan Club, Club-House, Madison Ave. and 26th Street, New York, 1905.

Hahnemann Medical College 1911 Commencement - 51st Annual Commencement of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, Thursday afternoon, May twenty-fifth, at two thirty o'clock, Abraham Lincoln Center, Cor. Oakwood Boulevard and Langley Avenue, Chicago.

Atlanta University 1882-83 Catalogue - Catalo

Share it with the Society

Posted by Michael John Neill on August 30, 2009 at 10:36am

Many genealogists research for years and the information just stacks. Or it gets entered in the computer. But what happens when the genealogist dies? Your will may indicate where your papers are to go, but once you are dead, you are dead. Those papers and files may still go to the dump.Consider publishing small pieces of your research in local publications, such as those of the local historical or genealogical society. Compiling a biography of great-great-grandfather may be a small enough task t

Looking under the street lamp

Posted by James Tanner on August 30, 2009 at 8:57am

I had an experience at the Mesa Regional Family History Center (MRFHC) recently that reminds of a old Bazooka Joe comic. In the comic, one of Joe's friends is searching for something under a street lamp. Joe comes up and asks what he is looking for. The friend says he lost a quarter down the street a ways. Joe then asks why he is looking under the street lamp and the reply is "That is where the light is!!!" In my experience at the MRFHC, one of the patrons was looking for a marriage date for his

One Hundred Years Ago

Posted by William Bruce Hillman on August 29, 2009 at 6:11pm

One hundred years is a long time and when you think about it the changes have been nothing short of amazing. I often hear people criticize the decisions and the actions of people in the past often by using the moral values of today. Yet our ancestors were the ones who built this country. I find that pursuing genealogical research is also a look into our own history. Perhaps also with a better understanding of how they thought.London, Ontario, is situated roughly half way between Detroit and Toro

FAMILY NAMES IN MY TREE.

Posted by Terrence George brown on August 29, 2009 at 1:00am

Hello to all members, looking for the following names, Brown, Bennett, Izard, Beaumont, Stehelin, Raleigh Curtis, Chetham Strode, Pennell, Pannell, Mills, just a few as all of you have, my Mousley connection, i traced the family to South Africa, George Bennett Mousley, Murdered by the Boers, shot in the back, What a story that was and it connected me to a wonderful family in south Africa, And the vicars i have found in the past connected to our family , and the wonderful story of the Voigt famil

New FamilySearch release date announce for 29 Stakes

Posted by James Tanner on August 28, 2009 at 8:45pm

29 Stakes in the St. George Temple District have an announced release date of 31 August 2009.The Stakes to go online with the program are as follows:Read more...

Is stealing my genealogy illegal?

Posted by James Tanner on August 28, 2009 at 8:30pm

An anonymous comment to my post on who owns genealogy said, "Its true that names and dates aren't "ownable", but if someone writes up their family history in a narrative format, it is copyrighted, and any reproduction without permission is illegal." Fortunately, we do not yet have copyright police in the United States. In fact, there is no agency at all, in the entire government, that enforces copyright claims. The comment shows a very common misconception, blurring the distinction between civil

I'm Jealous

Posted by Katie Heitert Wilkinson on August 28, 2009 at 5:10pm

My cousin Amy - she's a first/once removed - told me (1) that she and her mother are attending a genealogical session tomorrow entitled House History 101 and that (2) as soon as her dad retires, he's going to enroll in a genealogy course at the closest community college. Though I'm delighted for her, I'm wickedly jealous. No one in my immediate family has gotten the bug.

PROBATE GENEALOGIST: You do it for passion why not do it for profit

Posted by John A. Hoda on August 28, 2009 at 4:00pm

I have the ability of attending the FGS Conference in Little Rock next week with Probate Genealogist Cathy Decourcy.It will be a great opportunity to meet other genealogists from around the country and internationally. I created this neat video for the conference. I hope you like it.www.missingheirfinders.com click on blog

Genealogy finds from my aunts

Posted by Patricia Aceves Wyble on August 28, 2009 at 2:30pm

If you follow my twitter, you already know that my aunt and I have traded genealogy notes. I showed her how to use Legacy and gave her a file to start out with, and also lent her my Aceves-Echeverria binder to make copies of my documents. In turn, she and my other aunt (who is visiting from Mexico) lent me their stuff. I think that I got the better deal! A quick inventory of what I've processed so far...
Pictures (I put these on Geni already, coming to Flickr soon):
* Picture of my grandmother (of

Evidence of Salt Lake Valley New FamilySearch

Posted by James Tanner on August 27, 2009 at 11:17pm

During the past few months I have been focusing on the announcements of New FamilySearch introductions throughout Utah and Idaho. Those of us in Arizona have been waiting for the Wasatch Front Temple Districts to have the program introduced. Well, it now seems that they already have limited access to the program. I have started seeing Ordinance Cards printed from New FamilySearch with addresses in the Salt Lake Valley. Apparently, enough of the consultants and their friends have access to the pr

pike, perkins, page kentucky

Posted by Sara Kelly on August 27, 2009 at 9:57pm

Grandmother Mary Alice Pike from Campbellsville area. Seeking to connect to family members. Granddaughter, Sara

The Christiana Resistance Precursor to the Civil War - Christiana Pennsylvania

Posted by Anita Wills on August 27, 2009 at 1:51pm

The Christiana Resistance thought of in some corners as a precursor to the Civil War. It is one of the many events in American History that is not widely known."A major episode in African-American history, along with John Brown’s raid, was the Fugitive Slave Rebellion in Christiana. This event was a harbinger of the Civil War. Frederick Douglas referred to the Christiana Riot as “… the battle for liberty.”On September 11, 1851, Slave owner Edward Gorsuch, his son Dickinson, a Federal Marshall, d

"Remembering...Life Story Triggers and Memory Essays," a new book by Hella Buchheim

Posted by Stefani Twyford on August 26, 2009 at 5:12pm

"Remembering...Life Story Triggers and Memory Essays," a new book by Hella Buchheim, can help anyone starting a life memoir or life story. Originally designed as a monthly newsletter to stimulate thoughts and writing opportunities, the essays have now been compiled into a book. Each story and list of triggers helps elicit memories of events not thought of in years. The book is a perfect way for baby boomers to work together with their parents on their stories or baby boomers discovering their mo

"Thanatopsis"

Posted by Katie Heitert Wilkinson on August 26, 2009 at 3:30pm

The first time I began to consider truly the weighty significance of the notion of ancestry and the personal history of all who've come before us occurred when I analyzed the William Cullen Bryant poem "Thanatopsis" to prepare to teach it. Now not a day goes by that I don't wonder when I walk the streets of Austin whose feet trod exactly the same path centuries ago. I love Bryant's image of all of those who have lived forming a hand-in-hand chain than transcends time and place. When I leave this

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My Beautiful Welcome to GenealogyWise

Shameless Plug or PSA, however you want to look at it

Dare I?

Where's your family from? or how I got started in Genealogy

Samual Shores

Family Tree Connection - Update (30/Aug/2009)

Share it with the Society

Looking under the street lamp

One Hundred Years Ago

FAMILY NAMES IN MY TREE.

New FamilySearch release date announce for 29 Stakes

Is stealing my genealogy illegal?

I'm Jealous

PROBATE GENEALOGIST: You do it for passion why not do it for profit

Genealogy finds from my aunts

Evidence of Salt Lake Valley New FamilySearch

pike, perkins, page kentucky

The Christiana Resistance Precursor to the Civil War - Christiana Pennsylvania

"Remembering...Life Story Triggers and Memory Essays," a new book by Hella Buchheim

"Thanatopsis"

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