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The Obituaries were taken out of The Millard Mercury Papillion Newspaper. Please stop by and visit us you - just might find a loved one’s story! The Millard Mercury Papillion Nebraska from Nov 15, 1951 to Jan 2, 1955

Omaha Guide (NE Black Newspaper) July 16, 1932 – March 15, 1958 The Omaha Guide Newspaper is a North Omaha newspaper so, I took all the obituaries out of this newspaper so you can find your love one. I hope you will stop by and see if you ancestry live on the north side of Omaha Nebraska.

For several years I have been searching for information on my Great Grandfather, Horrace H Curran and his wife Marinda.  I believe they were married in 1854+-.  According to 1860 U.S. Census they lived in Town of Chatham, PA and had three children; Silles, Alice and Mary.  My grandfather, John J, was born in 1868 and his death certificate indicates he was born in Lawrenceville, PA.

Its almost as if he fell off the earth after the 1860 Census - I've found no further information about him.  Researc

Hello,

I am Jake Fletcher, native of Massachusetts, 23 years old. My passion has been genealogy since I was about 17. Having completed my undergraduate education (history), my goal is to publish genealogical research and become a CG. I am looking for advice on the subject.

Thank you for helping me with my life's ambition and am happy to be a part of this amazing genealogy network.

I am looking for information on Sarah Ann Chriss.  She was born in Jasper County Illinois.  Died there in 1870.  I am trying to find out how she passed away.  She was the first wife of John Fear of Jasper County Illinois.

For the past few weeks I have been involved in a back and forth phone tag with a potential client.

Each time he’s called me, I returned the call, and each time I called, he was  busy and told me he would get back to me. A couple weeks ago he asked me to send him some more information about my work so I sent him a flyer, and links to several video clips and testimonials. But we never actually had “the conversation” about what he was looking for, how I could help him, and how soon we could get star

  Come to McPherson, Kansas  11 and 12 July 2015, and share our family history. Share stories and pictures and information.  They do this every three years or at least try to. Last one was near the family homestead in Troy Grove, La Salle Co., Ill.  

 Last one I attended was 1994 with my parents and cousins Ken and Lulu Foulk.  

1.   John FOLK b 1740 Lancaster, PA dcd 15 April  1793 Greenwich, Berks Co., PA
      m 3 April 1762 , also REV WAR VET.  (Doctor) Served in Bucks Co. and New Jersey.
      

I have been able to find quite a bit of information in the last couple of weeks.  I received birth, marriage and death certificates ordered from England on quite a few members of my family.  We had concrete birth dates, concrete marriage dates, concrete death dates, at last.  My father stared at each one of them, touched them, smiled at them.  The most moving certificate form him was his father's birth certificate.  "I have people, " he said.  More certificates were ordered, and now we sit and w

I am currently researching the Statham Genealogy.  Specifically a George William Statham (b. 1838 in Derbyshire England ????)  He had married an Ellen Scampton (1840 - 1905) .  Any help would be most appreciated.

Robert Hegge

I am looking for information on William G. Fear.  Born in Harrison County Kentucky to William Hamlar Fear and Delilah Lanter Fear.  I need a documented source of proof that he is their son in order to join the DAR.  William was born or or about October 30, 1819.

Also looking for a documented source of proof for the birth of Sarah Ann (Chriss) Fear.  Born in Jasper County Illinois, she was the daughter of George Chriss and Sarah (Stewart) Chriss.  And the 1st wife of John F. Fear. 

Thanks so much,

T

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”  — Banksy

While this quote was directly attributed to the graffiti artist Banksy, the sentiment is not his alone and appears all over the place, attributed to several different people.

For instance:

“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memo

After several weeks of not being able to find my grandfather in the 1911 census, I started to wonder about the theory my cousin's husband had.  Could my grandfather really have been sent to Canada?  I searched for my grandfather in passenger records from England to Canada.  My cousin's husband had mentioned a record he found and I took a look at it.  Charles Brown, passenger with the Waifs and Strays Society, en route to Canada in 1912.  The boy in this record was the right age to be my grandfat

This photo is in a frame and was found among my great-grandfather's (Janos Peto) belongings.  Possibly his parents?

This is my great grandfather, Janos (John) Peto sometime in the late 1960s early 1970s.  Not sure who the baby is though.

This is him in the 1950s I think....looking like a movie gangster. :)

This is a possible sister, on the back in Hungarian it says "As a memory. Love, to my (older) brother, János from Olga. Sátoraljaújhely (the place), 3rd September 1957"

Hello,

I'm new to the site and would like to ask advice of all those who can answer the following question. Is the latest Family Tree Maker Program, 2014???, worth upgrading my system to. I currently have an older version, 5.0, which has been upgraded to 10.0. I have a lap top computer with windows 7. The older program works ok, but, I always get the message, "done with problems" or "errors on page" at the bottom left of the screen. I have more than 11,000 names in the program with probably 100-2

At this point, I started to see a side of my father I had never seen.  To give some history, I am an only child and a daddy's girl.  I have no problem admitting that I was a spoiled child.  My parents had some difficulty having me and I was a preemie.  In addition, in light of my dad's background, he worked very had to make sure I had everything I needed and wanted.  He worked very hard to make sure I knew how much he loved me and how important I was.  Even as an adult, my dad does a lot for me.

When I read my dad's adoption file and found my grandfather's Canadian Army discharge date, I had no way of knowing what the one little number would reveal.  I had no way of knowing the pain it would reveal and how it would affect my dad.  After finding the date, I went to the Canadian Army webpage to search for military records.  I found a World War I listing for Charles E F Brown, but the birth year was off by four years and he was born in England.  I read the Attestation Form and it stated he