Taking a page out of Chris Dunham's blog or book (is there a difference?).Top Ten Reasons for coming to Canada.10. British cannon was very persuasive.9. Escape the noose for sheep steeling, cattle steeling, and what ever wasn’t tied down.8. With a city named London the weather should be about the same - right!!!7. The streets were paved with gold or at the very least good oak.6. Improvement in standard of living. The outhouses here were of top quality(good oak again).5. Hockey - Hockey- Hockey4.
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I'm really excited that tomorrow I'm going to the Newberry Library in Chicago! I'll be researching church records for my husband's DANKER and DABELSTEIN line. They both attended 1st St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, which no longer exists. The church records are on microfilm, but are only available in 3 locations - Salt Lake City, St. Louis and the Newberry.Hoping to fill in several blanks for birthdates in my group sheets. Some of those records are from before the Chicago fire in 1871 so I'
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I am getting ready to start researching my families history. My family is extremely large and I am going to do my husband's family as well.I am interested in the research job to help create the social network.
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Hello fellow researchers! I am trying out GenealogyWise, but my postings of abstracts, transcriptions and photographs will remain at http://wyklekin.wordpress.com : (West) Virginia Wykles and Kin. If you use Twitter, follow anaperas for notice of updates to that site.Beyond my specific family lines, I am primarily interested in lineage societies and society work and governance.
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Through out my genealogical career, I have hunted for obituaries. Who hasn't, right! I have read thousands of little news blurbs in newspapers while searching for an obit.One day, I decided to start collecting the items I found interesting. With no specific thoughts to how to use these precious pieces of history, I started printing whole pages of old newspapers.As you can imagine, the copy quality leaves a lot to be desired. Most libraries, it seems, just use the bare minimum in the printer qual
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Carnegie Mellon has done a study that shows it’s not hard to predict someone’s Social Security Number based on data that wouldn’t be hard to find. You can find a FAQ at this link.and here’s the abstract of the study at this link.Genealogists could be excited and concerned about their findings.Excited ... It means we might have a new tool at tracking down relatives.Concerned ... Legitimate privacy concerns could lead to stricter controls of data that’s currently public.And of course, genealogists
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What a wonderful service GenealogyWise is. We've just posted a news story on Lowcountry Africana (www.lowcountryafricana.com) to invite our readers to join:GenealogyWiseRead more…
Genealogy and History Podcast. week 119From the Irish Roots Cafe Broadcast Network.Among Todays Topics:1) The Irish Family Name of the Week is: Corrigan2) Donegal Databases3) The Books of the Month are on County Donegal4) Searching: Arthur, Killian, Porter…5) Harry Potter comes to County Clare6) Fitzpatrick wins Wife Carrying Contest7) Irish Video of the Day: Wrong Way CorriganTimeline for this weeks audio broadcast:http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/97/152/This Weeks Topics: 1:05Notes from
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I have been researching my genealogy for about 3-4 yrs now. I still consider myself to be a beginner although I have much information on my family, I have so much more to do. I really enjoy it all but sometimes I do not have as much time for it as I would like. I had my DNA done with FamilyTree DNA and was so pleased to find out my history but also found out that I have a rare DNA because I do not have any matches with mine. FTdna even changed my halogroup a few months after having mine done. I
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I'm trying to piece together my family tree, and I've got a basic outline so far. I haven't been able to get anywhere past my great grandparents, on both sides of my mother's family line. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.I am: Samantha MolinaBorn to: Suzanne Molina (Maiden Name: Cox)Her parents are:1) William James Cox (7/21/1919)2) Jeanette Florence (Puma) Cox (1/25/1926)William James Cox was born in Jersey City, NJ to:1) William Joseph Cox (35-36 y.o at time of his birth)2
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I purchased a $25.00 gift card from you and wonder how much longer I have to use it. I was hoping to get my PAF just a little better organized before I printed anything. I got the gift card last Nov at the Mesa, AZ Expo. Please let me know.
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Some people hate change. I often get excited by it. For instance, I haven't found a reason to complain about the recent changes on Ancestry.com. So far, I love them.I have a LOT of people in my tree that need to be "pruned out" - they were there because I accepted on faith, with no documentation, someone's belief about who an ancestor's parents were. I did a great deal of research about that family, and found out a lot of information - some of which no one else seemed to have found (or at least
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I was one of the very early members of GenealogyWise and have seen the membership grow so much in the last three days. I would look at each member to see what names they were searching and see if I could connect. People started signing up so fast, I could not keep up.. This is exciting and I really hope this is successful.I love the Profile Photos of everyone and especially get tickled at the ones with a pet or when the person was about three... so fun...I have to admit I picked a friend last ni
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I'm a good, faithful blogger but when it comes to researching my family and past I'm in the dark ages. My father's side of the family is very well researched and there are even books that have been published concerning our family. When it comes to my mother's side I just am not sure about what has been done. Now that I'm married and have two children I find the importance of keeping connections through Genealogy and I hope to better understand and work with the tools that are so easily available
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Five years ago, my mom and I started the process of getting all her siblings and their children and grandchildren together. She is one of eight (seven now living), and such a large family coupled with long-standing family disputes, meant that we had never all been together in the same place at the same time. Out of my twenty-seven first cousins, there were at least seven that I had never met. I started by writing letters to each of my aunts and uncles asking for updates for the family tree and l
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I have never blogged before but have been a stalker on many sites. I am hoping to use this blog as an accountability tool for my own research. My goals for this summer are to find proof one way or the other that my husband's Mathieu ancestor Michel Mathieu, who came to the US from Canada in the 1860s is descended from Joseph Mathieu and Marie Papillon. I have heard that his parents are listed on his death certificate, but would like to find other more direct sources.
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Have you ever received a gift, an heirloom, that belonged to an elder family member? Maybe it was an old stone pot that belonged in the family for generations. What a treasure! Wouldn't it be even greater then to know the story behind it? Maybe Great Aunt Ruth used to use that pot each Sunday for special meals with the family. Wouldn't it have so much more meaning to know the life behind the item?Genealogy appeals to people who like mysteries - piecing together puzzles from the past and uncoveri
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For those of you who keep up with my genealogical diggings and family history research:Since this project was first started, back in October 2007, it has grown from a simple quest to do a simple pedigree, to an enormous, time consuming project. The tree goes back sixteen generations and includes nearly 1300 people. But there are still a lot of things I need to get and a lot of information I need to find. So I've decided to make up a to-do list for my genealogy and family history quest. This is f
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