The 1940 Census is now fully indexed just in time for October's Family History Month! To commemorate these two great occasions, Archives.com created a fun and informative interactive graphic showcasing all 23 Censuses! The interactive graphic can be found at the following URL:
http://www.archives.com/1940-census-facts.html
Complete with images of each decade’s questionnaire as well as statistics and valuable data, we hope you enjoy it! You can share it on your Facebook page, Like it, Tweet it,
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Photographs, Aging and What to Do.
Like this bolt of lightening that rippled between the clouds, this thought hit me.
What is going to happen to our photographs? Especially the old inherited ones of the 1850's 1860's forward.
Will someone in my family keep them or take them out and burn them?
When my husbands' Grandmother passed, the family dumped many photos into the yard and had a bonfire with all the things they did not want. Ironic, they never asked the children of theirs if anyone wanted G
The Womack family in America has its origins in the Quakerism of its progenitor. How did this impact their practice of slave holding?
Most Quakers owned slaves when they first came to America; to most Quakers "slavery was perfectly acceptable provided that slave owners attended to the spiritual and material needs of those they enslaved."i 70% of Quakers owned slaves in the period from 1681 to 1705; however, from 1688 some Quakers began to speak out against slavery until by 1756 only 10% of Quaker
I would like to find any Living Relatives of my Grandfather, Henry Blessington Peters who was from Calcutta, India who moved to London, England in 1961. He was a Prominent Musician in India with My Great Grandfathers Band and talked about Friends with Names like Buckie and an American GI called Paul Meeks who wanted Him to go to the USA after the War and Marry His Sister. Any Info on any of the people i have mentioned would be grateful as i'm trying to Trace my Indian Heritage past my Grandfathe
In every family, someone ends up with Mom’s and Dad’s “stuff” – a lifetime’s worth of old photos, letters, papers, and memorabilia packed into boxes, suitcases, closets, and trunks. In How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records (Family Tree Books, 2012), a new book by Denise May Levenick, family members will find help with organizing, preserving and sharing their family heirlooms.
“Inheriting the family treasures can a burden and a
Research and Where to Look
Research and where to look and no, I do not mean on line. At a recent event, in fact, two recent events we had attendees whom are still not on computers, or at least do not own one.
Yes, many of them are older and never were exposed to a Computer via school or work. Others were young, and could not yet afford the luxury of a computer. It is not a life need for many. They were learning to use Library computers.
Last fall at our Seminar, speaking to Bill Dollarhide and wher
"THE VAN ARSDALES SETTLE IN A FREE STATE" is a chapter in the family my great aunt Margeret Chadwick wrote called "The Lee Family of Spanish Fork Utah". The section of her book that about the Van Arsdale line sparked my interest and provided clues that have led to many exciting discoveries.
The Van Arsdales Settle in a Free State:
Just a few years after the birth of Edward Lee in America, our earliest known ancestor of English descent , came a young weaver from Holland to tryout his fortune in
CeCe Moore, DNA Professional to Speak Bonita-Sunnyside Library
CeCe Moore, DNA professional will be talking about DNA on 7 October from 1 to 3 P M at the Bonita-Sunnyside Library, Bonita, CA. 4375 Bonita Road Bonita, CA 91902
CeCe Moore is coming to the Bonita-Sunnyside Library to talk on DNA. October 7th from 1 p m to 3 p m.
CeCe Moore is a professional genetic genealogist and writes the popular blog "Your Genetic Genealogist."
She is the Southern California Regional Coordinator for the Internat
1000memories’ Online Photo Digitizing Technology Brings New Sharing
Capabilities to Ancestry.com Users (PROVO, Utah) – Oct. 3, 2012 – Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, announced today it has acquired 1000memories Inc., the San Francisco-based startup that has been focused on helping people digitize and share the estimated 1.7 trillion paper photos stored in their albums, attics, and shoeboxes.
Founded in 2010, 1000memories’ mission has been to h
First of all, what is oral history? Put simply it is a collection of testimonies by living persons to record their unique life stories. They are not based on gossip, hearsay or rumors. Instead, oral histories are chronicles of direct observations as told by the people who witnessed the events or lived through the experiences being described. They are taken straight from the horse’s mouth so to speak.
This can be a great way of capturing the life and times of your family, close friends, community
California Research, A Great Site and Greater Resources
Having recently found this site and shared information with Leslie Brinkley Lawson, Forensic Genealogist, and Speaker.
Wishing to share this information with those not already exposed. It seems almost daily there is new data to be found if one just goes looking.
The real cool thing about this site is it expands to other states. This is just highlighting the California Links given, some are shared by other members for her to post. What a
Lancashire Wills Index (1457-1748 & 1793-1812)
Over 32,600 testators are now available for searching online within the Lancashire Wills Index. The Archdeaconry of Richmond comprised that part of Lancashire north of the River Ribble, and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. It was further subdivided into deaneries. Wills from the western deaneries from following Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society volumes are included in this collection:
Over 32,600 testators are now available for searching online within the Lancashire Wills Index. The Archdeaconry of Richmond comprised that part of Lancashire north of the River Ribble, and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. It was further subdivided into deaneries. Wills from the western deaneries from following Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society volumes are included in this collection:
- Volume 10 - Index to wills proved in the western
I am pleased to announce that we have a new site as replacement of Random Act of Genealogical Kindness
www.generousgenealogists.com
We are live for a week now and already 200 volunteers from all over the world have singed up to help researchers with their search for ancestors and all for free of course.
it is a proper website with country forums and even a coaching section on how to find your relatives.
Currently we have about 885 visitors per day and in the last week we had 7311 visitors alrea
Discoveries made easy: Millions of MyHeritage users to automatically receive relevant newspaper clippings and historical records, adding color to their family history
PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – September 19, 2012: MyHeritage, the world’s largest family network, today announced the release of Record Matching, an innovative new technology set to change the face of the family history market. Record Matching will help millions of families learn more about their past by automatically di
A paternal fourth cousin and me have been coyly corresponding via email. We first met on a DNA site called 23 and me in which a participant submits a test tube of their saliva and the company electronically sends the autosomal results of the individual's ancestral origins. An autosomal test will show both maternal and paternal relatives in a persons ancestry. Fortunately, I was able to talk my dad into performing a test, my mom having been deceased years ago. This fourth cousin matches me on my
Oliver BELL *Interview with Oliver Bell* --Ruby Pickens Tartt, Livingston__ALABAMA _DE BES' FRIEND A NIGGER EVER HAD_ "I was borned on De Graffenreid Place," he said, "nine miles west of Livingston-Boyd Road. My mother was Luella De Graffenreid an' my pappy was Edmund De Graffenreid. Den dey changed my name to BELL. I had one brother, Nat, an' two sisters, Jestina, and CLARA. I has 'bout sixteen chilluns, all born on de same place an' most of dem is livin' dere yit. My chillun by my firs' wife a
As of last week's update, the obituary index at the Schenectady
Digital History Archive now contains just under 89,000 citations.
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/vitalrecords/deaths/index.html>
In addition to current and historical Schenectady County newspapers,
the index also includes recent years of papers covering the counties
of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schoharie, Warren and
Washington, as well as some items from Albany and Rensselaer.
--
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Ar
HI, MY NAME IS ELOISE KAY FILLERMAN, I AM LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO MIGHT HAVE A PICTURE OF MY DAD, HIS NAME IS CLYDE ELMO FILLERMAN, HE WAS BORN JAN.25, 1911 IN QUINCY, ADAMS CO., ILLINOIS, I AM ALSO CHECKING TO FIND MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS' NAME, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF SOMEONE COULD HELP ME OUT IN THESE AREAS, MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS efillerman200@yahoo.com THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
Cornelius (Franklin) SCOTT, wife Ella WARDEN
back Great Uncle Dan Scott, b 1880 whom I knew, Girl on far end is Inez Mae SCOTT, my Grandmother b 1892
girl in lap I think is Great Aunt Fern,b 1905 whom m Jasper Hampton. boy near GGrandfather is Harrison b 1895 (circus performer at one time), I also met him and his family. b 1905
Other children's names though I am not sure whom is who are: Mary E. b Mar 1885, John C b 1887,Gertrude1887,
Minnie B. b 1890, Walter b 1897, James b 1899.
If anyone has
