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James Fenton of Crimble Hall - Brief Sketch

Posted by P. Davidson-Peters on August 31, 2009 at 12:36pm

Recently posted a photo and brief sketch of Colonel James Fenton of Crimble Hall on my site.If you have any further information, comments etc., please email me or add a posted comment.Thanks!

My Beautiful, Wonderful, Loving Family

Posted by Spivey on August 31, 2009 at 10:49am

As I was adding photos to this site, I thought of all the love, caring, sacrifices and other acts of human kindness those photos evoked about my family members. Sometimes we get lost in the day-to-day emotional moments and forget what great triumps and achievements our family members have accomplished. Today, I got a reminder of how beautiful my family members are. Sometimes it takes a look over the history to remind us of this. Spivey

The Human Family Tree – National Geographic Channel – Tues. Sept 1

Posted by Stefani Twyford on August 31, 2009 at 10:47am

I’ve got my DVR cued for tomorrow night’s airing of The National Geographic Channel’s ground-breaking show “The Human Family Tree.” I missed the original showing on Friday and am thrilled it will be repeated on Tuesday night. The episode takes a neighborhood in Queens, N.Y. and through DNA sampling of a couple hundred of the residents of this neighborhood, traces everyone’s origin back to the birth of humanity in East Africa.National Geographic has provided some great materials to support the sh

Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy

Posted by Ayesart on August 31, 2009 at 9:49am

Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy the Book Posted on Aug 31st, 2009 by ayesartThe reason for my abscence from these pages has not arisen from creating a plastic work of art or seeking out to discover beautiful nature subjects for my photography but from a different kind of artistic realization.I have been very busy working upon an important new project. A book!Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy.On 08 28 2009 I uploaded a copy to the Library of Congress Copy Right Off

Have you looked at the USCIS Genealogy Program?

Posted by James Tanner on August 31, 2009 at 9:18am

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Genealogy Program is a "fee-for-service program providing family historians and other researchers with timely access to historical immigration and naturalization records. Click the links at right and below to learn about our services and records." Again quoting from the Website, there are two services:Read more...

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

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James Fenton of Crimble Hall - Brief Sketch

My Beautiful, Wonderful, Loving Family

The Human Family Tree – National Geographic Channel – Tues. Sept 1

Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy

Have you looked at the USCIS Genealogy Program?

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

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