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This is Frank Mattes a photographer in Philadelphia, PA.  He was born 14 Jul 1881 in Vesprod, Bacs-Bodrog, Hungary,  he came to the US in 1906 and was naturalized in 1914.  He married Magdalena "Lena" Teufel and they had a son names Frank Jr who was born in 1912 but died in 1915, and a daughter Anna Helen Mattes, born in 24 Jan 1917 who was still single and living at home in 1940.  The last record I have found on Frank is his 1942 WWII draft card and he is still living in Philadelphia. 

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   Here's wishing a Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there, and especially to all the outstanding fathers in our family. This will be the first Father's Day without my dad Ray, pictured in the middle  holding a little kid with a lot of hair. Yes, that was me, and the year was probably 1953, the place was likely Caseyville, Illinois, where my maternal grandfather John J. Bartos was living at the time. The big guy on the far right (who looks like a cop) is Dad's father Anthony Peterson, who

The Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy to Hold Fourth Annual Forensic Genealogy Institute on March 26-28, 2015

The 2015 FGI Offers Two Brand-New, Cutting-Edge Courses for Forensic Genealogists

Dallas, Texas – June 12, 2014 – The Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) announced today that the fourth annual Forensic Genealogy Institute (FGI) will be held March 26-28, 2015, at the Wyndham Love Field Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The 2015 FGI features two brand-new, concurre

My Great-Great Grandmother, Anna Prowell(1830-1912), married to Elijah S Krone( 1834-1918) & mother to Andrew Curtain Krone(1862-1930). She was the daughter of, Jacob Prowell (1808-1870) & Jane Potts(1809-1886).

 Hi Everyone,

  Having just received permission to share this on my blog I am promptly doing it.

  I use Rootsweb.com lists for research and today having received this information and then permission to share.

  On Jun 10, 2014, at 10:34 AM, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com wrote:

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The woman in the middle of this picture may be Ester Stella Liska Peto....my great-grandma.  On the back, very faintly, it says Mrs. Peto.  I think she is surrounded by coal miners and I wonder if one of them near her might be her son John Peto who was killed in a mining accident in 1927. ???

This picture was taken in McKeesport, PA possibly in the early 1920s.  On the back it looks like it says Mrs. Andy Burebiak but it's very faint.

Taken in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, NJ in November 1905.  John Peto and Esther Liska.

My great grandfather, Lazarus Ciebelman, left the Ukraine around 1888 and moved to England, to London's East Side, where many Jewish refugees from European/Russian pogroms were settling then. The only problem is I am stuck trying to find anyone before him because the name Ciebelman/Ciebleman, which I also found as Sibbleman in one of his ship crossings to N. America, is unique, period. No one outside of our family has this name and the name does not exist before Lazarus, making be suspect it is

My great great grandfather,Robert G. Dickersonwas born 8/1/1817 in south Carolina. He was made a ward of Benjamin James , because both parents died. He married Vicy Newben in 1844, together they had 7 children, James Ranson born 12/8/1845,daniel, which is my Great grandfather,David,Franklin born 9/12/1855, Robert H, Thomas B, George L, Mary ann. I'm trying to locate anyone who may be related to any of these Dickersons. Daniel married Mary Ann Strickland . hey had a son named Charles H ,11/4/1871

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My Van Rooyen family tree

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My family blog

http://www.myheritage.com/site-72731291/brinkstander ;

16700 records published on 28 May 2014

There is a family tree on thes sites: http://www.myheritage.com and

http://www.geni.com

Family tree

Scribd.com

Published two trees:

1) Ancestors of Pieter Brink

2) Descendants of Johannes Heronymus Brink

It's been a really busy weekend so I'm pretty late getting this posted.  In honor of Memorial Day,  here's a soldier.  I THINK this might be my great-grandfather's brother.  Surname Peto or Petho.....Not sure though. 

Its time to return to writing in a new blog with a new focus. And appropriately we begin on Memorial Day, when we honor those who served and continue to serve when our nation called. This will be my first Memorial Day without this handsome young guy in this photo. He's my Dad. We lost him last year in October after a long illness. Ray was 86 years old.

In April 1945 Dad turned 18. Hitler's Germany was about to fall and FDR had only days to live. Dad's father, my Grandpa Tony, sat his son down and

Sunday May 18, 2014 was the first public screening of my documentary, “Martin Elkort: An American Mirror” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It showed to a crowd of about 200 people, which is an terrific turn out for an early Sunday evening, on a graduation weekend.

Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Gus and Lyndal Wortham Curator of Photography, gave a wonderful opening speech where she helped the audience to create a context of what it was like to be a photographer during that time period and how Martin

Military records are free Memorial Day weekend on MyHeritage, just visit: http://pages.myheritage.com/memorialday/