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New RootsMagic 6 Software Released

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Latest Version of Genealogy and Family Tree Software Now Available to the Public

SPRINGVILLE, Utah. — November 19, 2012 — RootsMagic, Inc. today announced the official release of RootsMagic 6, the latest version of the award-winning genealogy software which makes researching, organizing, and sharing your family history easy and enjoyable. With this release comes an update to the popular “RootsMagic Essentials” free genealogy software.

Family History Made Easy

Family Tree Magazine said RootsM

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George Hallion Royal Irish Rifles

13559126654?profile=originalI was just looking back over some old research and I came across a record of my grandfather from WWI.In the record it stated he had been charged with "leaving his post",this was while he was in hospital in England after been wounded in the Battle of the Somme.He was gone for 2 hrs,unfortunately it doesn't say where he went but my thoughts are he slipped out of the hospital for a pint! Anyone else with a similar funny story please let me know.

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We’re pleased to announce the launch of Ancestry.com’s new Community Support site. This will be a place for community collaboration and will focus mainly on getting started with family history, product questions, How-To discussions and general help related topics. While the Ancestry Message Boards are for finding people and places – our new Support Communities is the place to go to get answers to product questions, and to find tips and solutions submitted by community members.

The Support Com

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I was watching some news coverage of Hurricane Sandy a few days ago and there was a woman standing on the site of what was once her home, holding a battered and soggy wedding photo of her parents. She was sobbing, saying this was the only photo she could find of her parents. It was painful to watch. For years, I have been writing about the need to protect heirloom property such as photos and scrapbooks. I can’t recall where I read this but insurance companies report that the number one loss item

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Mocavo Announces Free Scanning Service

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It always seems like there aren't enough hours in the day or enough days in the week, doesn't it? Take a look around you. Do you have piles of research laying around? Old books gathering dust? Historical documents sitting in boxes?

From now until the end of the year we will scan your documents, send you a digital copy, and put them online at Mocavo -- for FREE! We work with our community to bring all of the world’s genealogical information online for free putting everyone’s family history with

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Familyrelatives.com releases three new military datasets for the first time containing lists of more than 35,000 British and Dominion Officers who were killed or captured during the Great War. We are proud to have added the following to our website:

  • British Officers Prisoners of War 1914-1918
  • Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1919
  • The Bond of Sacrifice - A Biographical Record of British Officers Who Fell in the Great War


On Armistice Day the collection commemorates British military personnel who

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John fenn Senior was born in 1801 in Coggesshell essex.
He married a lady called Sarah, and the Essex records office hold the following information about them.
I found the baptism of John Fenn on 17 March 1822 - he was born on 17 November 1821 (a helpful Rector recorded his birth at baptism). His parents were a John and Sarah Fenn. The church was just recorded as Gt. Coggeshall. I imagine it was St. Nicholas.

I also found a sibling for John - Rebecca baptised 13 May 1826 (born 12 April 1826). I wa

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Sanford HOFFMAN and Thomas H Neal (Phebe's husband)

U.S. Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976 Biographical and Genealogical History of Appanoose and Monroe

Counties , Ia. 

Pg 682 Ex-Soldiers Sailors and Marines

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Name                                Rank                                 Co.            Present Post Office Address

Sanford Hoffman                Private                               K               Moravia    

T. H. Neal                          Private  

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George Franklin

13559128282?profile=originalGeorge C. Franklin was born November 1849 in McDowell County, NC.

He married Emily Griffin on January 15, 1871 in McDowell County, NC. No one knows for sure where George was before he got married, but a George of about the same age shows up in the 1860 and 1870 censuses in Madison County, NC. In their marriage record it states George's parents to be Ezekiel and Dianna Franklin.

George and Emily appear in Barker's Creek, Jackson County, NC in the census of 1880 with four sons: Calvin 8, Luthar 6, J

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Family Tree Magazine is seeking a genealogy newbie to become our next Family Tree Firsts blogger!


The third annual Family Tree First Blogger Contest will identify a beginner genealogist to follow in the footsteps of Shannon Bennett and Nancy Shively in blogging about their genealogy experiences and discoveries at FamilyTreeUniversity.com.

Family Tree Magazine editors will select a winner based on strength of application. Over the course of six months, the winner will have access to our how-to

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John Doidge Elizabeth Woodman

http://www.williamdoidge.co.uk

 

This is not an advert. It is a very kind entry which took up some time:  I hope it is of interest to a lot of readers. 

This site is the only one which has actually covered these two extremely important persons.  If one reads the ancestry.com or Devon Records, you get a totally wrong impression.  I note that Victor Cowling often mentions these names.  However in that era no records were kept except those of John Doidge.  Those more recent, are so distorted, they hav

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Richard Higgins b England   1600

d  21 June 1675 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Colony  m Lydia Chandler 1634 Mass

 m Mary Snow Yates(w) Oct 1651 Mass  b 1603 Mass

Jediah Higgins b 5 March 1655/6  Eastham, Mass

d 1715  , New Jersey

m Mary Newbold  b 23 May 1661 York England  m 12 May 1684 

d 1715     New Jersey

Jediah Higgins b 11 April 1691

d 19 Jan 1772 New Jersey

m Hannah Stout b 29 Mar 1694 

d 14 July 1779 New Jersey

James Higgins b 1733 Kingston, Somerset, New Jersey

d 1799

m Sarah Stout

Joseph Higgin

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Carlsen family

I Am trying to find my great grandfathers imformation,he put his children in the protestant orphan assylum in the early 1900's and joined the merchant marines,they never seen him again. My grandfathers name was Daniel Carlsen and I am not sure what his fathers name was.The orphanage was in Detroit,Mi.

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I am looking for information on Mary Ann Warren (nee Mitchell) B 1837, Cornwall.  Arrrived in Australia 1849 (SA).  Her husband Richard Albert Warren B 1830, Cornwall was the proprietor of the Ovens and Murray Advertiser in Beechworth.

 

I am looking for any information regarding Mary's life as I believe she was an active member in her community.

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Last week I was at an annual conference for the Association of Personal Historians in St. Louis, Missouri. This is my fourth conference to attend, and one of the highlights for me is catching up with people from all over the world that I communicate with regularly but don’t get to see in person all too often, as well as meeting new historians and learning about the work that they are up to.

This year I had the pleasure of having dinner with a Danish woman. She told me about a long standing value

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Researchers with the American School of Genealogy, Heraldry, and Documentary Sciences are looking for participants familiar with genealogy to answer a survey for a research project. Respondents will receive free ad space in the school's next issue of their journal Altair. Please email me at Eklundj9@aol.com to receive a copy of the cover letter, survey, and the last issue of Altair. Please put in the subject line Genealogy Survey so I can recognize emails associated with this post. Thank you in

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