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New Year is Coming, Are Your Goals Set

Oh yes,  in the middle of all your hectic paced days, you should be thinking of January and what your Genealogical, Family Goals will be. You can do this mentally but make sure you write it down so as you do either a large goal or small you can cross sit off and feel more fulfilled at the end of the year.

Why you ask?  Because have goals propels you to accomplish more and possibly be more organized.  

You can set them via the month or the  quarter or for the y

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APG Names Kimberly T. Powell President

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Association of Professional Genealogists Names Kimberly T. Powell President

Executive Committee, Board Members, and Nominating Committee Elected for the Next Term

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo., 27 November 2013−Today the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) announced election results for its 2014-2015 executive committee, as well as for nine board members, and two nominating committee members. Kimberly T. Powell of Oakdale, Penn. was elected president. Powell has been the genealogy expert for About
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Contact: Courtney Holmes
Phone: 703-525-0050 ext. 221
cholmes@ngsgenealogy.org
For Release: 2 December 2013


Registration Opens for the National Genealogical Society's 2014 Family History Conference Richmond, Virginia, 7–10 May 2014 Virginia: The First Frontier


ARLINGTON, VA, 2 DECEMBER 2013: Registration is now open for the National Genealogical Society’s thirty-sixth annual family history conference, Virginia: The First Frontier, which will be held 7–10 May 2014 at the Greater Richmond Convention Ce

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Speaking Saturday before a well-attended meeting of CAGGNI (Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois) Kicking Up the Past project producer Ken J. Marks said, “this is the only documentary you will find on television that portrays the hard-work, art and science of researching your family tree… no celebrities… no button-pushing short cuts”.

Just 7 days remain to the novel project conceived by Chicago-area teacher & genealogist, Madonna Davis to utilize crowd funding to fund a televisi
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New Agreement Provides a View of the Past through Historical News Reports

(Provo, Utah) – November 18, 2013 - Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, is proud to announce a collaboration with the Associated Press that makes fifty years of news stories--in their original wire copy format--available online today.

“We are thrilled to announce this collaboration with the Associated Press to bring its name and subject catalog online,” said Quinton Atkinson, Director of Content
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 Are you preparing your Christmas News or your yearly letter to preserve the important things for the last 12 months?

 This is the perfect time of the year to gather the wool and put the thoughts in print for family and close friends may learn how this year has faired.  Genealogically, it will help preserve memories of events, socially it helps to keep the family members in the loop, whether near or far.  

 Due to a Medical situation last year, my letter did not go out to but a few. This year it w

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           Topics for Lemon Grove Library for November and December are posted here.

                  REMEMBER NEW HOME   3001 School Lane, Lemon Grove, CA across from Fire Department.

20 November 2013  " Thanksgiving Memories,  Each person will share a Thanksgiving Memory or Tradition, is it related to an Ethnicity?" led by  Susi 
4 December 2013   "Roundtable Talks, and Your Goals for the Next Year," led by Susi, & Virginia 
18 December 2013 " Holiday Party, Sharing of  What You Have Learned This
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The Utah Genealogical Association is pleased to announce that a bold, new course is being offered at their popular Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy in January 2014. Since 1996 the Institute has been a national leader in innovative education for family historians and 2014 will be no different.

New this coming year will be the first course to specifically focus on the complexities of researching in Eastern Europe. Also new will be some changes in the structure of the course that makes it more respo
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Geneaological Gem or Privacy Disaster

In this age of technological advancements and the use of social media, searching for a long last ancestor has become much easier.  But consider this, what may be a exciting find, can also be a privacy disaster.

Public records are available to anyone who knows how to search for them. A genealogical treasure trove of material is out there.   But often those same public records are misused as a form of identity theft.  Public records leave clues that can lead to other records and information that sh

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The Letter

Since my family moved around so much, I have very little in the way of pictures or letters of my ancestors.  What I do have is so very precious to me.

My mother never met her paternal grandmother, and only had one photograph of her.  Her grandmother had passed away from pneumonia leaving very young children to be raised by others, among them my grandfather.  During my nightly ancestry hunt, and using social media, I was able to connect with a extended family member.  We shared, compared and delig

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FamilySearch has added more than 135 million indexed records and images from Brazil, Canada, England, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 1,227,603 indexed records from the new Canada Census, 1911, collection, the 949,214 indexed records and images from the Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900–1965, collection, and the 132,330,416 indexed records from the United States Public Records Index. See the table below for the full list of u
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Serious Distant Kin Outlaws

 I was doing research for a family history newsletter I send out to my kin on Mom's side of our family when I discovered we have some rough characters on our kin list.

I was checking the Blanton line back and remember Martha Shepherd marrying one of my Blanton g-grandfathers (George)back in the late 1700's or early 1800. It seems Martha had a brother, James Pendleton Shepherd or Shepard as it was sometimes spelled, who moved to Kansas and he had two or three grandsons who grew up to ride with Qua

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My Reality of Attending a School Reunion

I recently attended my 40th class school reunion out in Southern California. There was a whirlwind of activities, two parties on a Friday night, the real reunion on Saturday night and then a brunch picnic the following Sunday morning. I didn’t attend the brunch, choosing instead to have breakfast with a small group of woman I have known since I was a very young girl. It was a good choice. It allowed us an intimate time to reflect on our lives and the past two days, and I didn’t want to leave.

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My grandpa, Henry Redeker, was adopted when he was young. No one knows who the real birth parents are. The only information I have is that his last name would have been Weber. He was born in Wisconsin in 1925. His adoptive parents are Minnie and John Redeker. After doing some research, I potentially have a match to who his birth parents are. I checked out the 1930 census and discovered there was a Henry Weber Sr. and Regna Weber with a son named Henry living together. Henry would have been 5 yea

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Our Family Histories  the second site is: Eastern United States Research

 If you have a webpage that is paid by a credit card, any time that credit card has problems, ie someone trying to hack account or use it illegally, your bank will fix the problem. What you have to watch for is did they notify your people that are paid monthly from that Credit Card.  I spoke to mine in May and all seemed to run smoothly, until two days ago.

 Suddenly my webpage of more than 20 years disappears, the back up si

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New York, NY – In honor of the reopening of Ellis Island on Monday, October 28, 2013, Statue Cruises is pleased to announce the launch of a new blog to tell the stories of the immigrants who came to the United States through Ellis Island.

Inspired by the stories of their own employees’ families, Statue Cruises has launched Heartbreak & Hope: The Stories of Ellis Island to tell not only those stories but the stories of the many descendants of over 14 million people who found their way to the U.S.
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  Our Separating Methods

  Not wanting to harp, growl and howl, I have been saying for at least four years and each year it gets worse, we have created a Separating Method for doing Genealogy.

  Today, having received my UpFront with NGS, I wanted to leap for joy that someone else noticed.

UpFront with NGS: Technological Divide in Genealogy -- Yes, it does exist! What might we do about it?

  Two years ago when dear friend William Dollarhide and Leland Metzler gave us a fabulous seminar and I was abl

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 Having found many relatives on Facebook how about you?  Filling in the blanks has become fun and interesting because you can see their faces right away and that is so much fun.

 Recently receiving a picture of hubbies Great Grandfather I know where his eyebrows probably came from.  It is a young man of 19 in the picture. The only other one he is in 60's, and side profile.

  Not gotten the hang of Pinterest but others are constantly talking about the help it has given them for research.  I know F

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Hollister, MO, October 25, 2013 -- "Christmas at the Homeplace" is the fourth book in "The Homplace Saga" series of historical fiction family saga stores set in a rural river valley in the southern Missouri Ozarks near a fictional western branch of the Current River (NW corner of Shannon County). Set in 1996, the story has a "homecoming for Christmas" theme affecting members of the extended families of the central characters. 

Will they all be home for Christmas? For the first time since their fa

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