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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

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

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

A Hope Chest was originally used as a dowry. It was property that a woman owned and brought into her marriage. Some women could not find a suitable husband, for various factors; therefore, the dowry was used as a way of enticing a man into marriage.

The idea of a Hope Chest symbolizes so many hopes and dreams. It’s about seeing the future unfold before your very eyes and it’s about preserving a lifetime of memories and building a family legacy, a heritage. It’s a place where a young girl places a

Findmypast.com Expands U.S. Records Collection

Newly added records gives users access to unparalleled resources

that cannot be found anywhere else

LOS ANGELES, August 31, 2012 –Findmypast.com, an international leader in online family history research, today announced the expansion of its U.S. records to include World War I Draft cards and outgoing passenger lists from the UK to United States, among others.

The unveiling of findmypast.com’s expanded record collection follows the announcement of a n

I've been doing genealogy since I was 16. Something about learning what my ancestors' lives were like just drew me in and wouldn't let me go. So my new novel, which I describe as "genealogy-themed," is a natural extension of my love for family history. If you've ever wondered what it'd be like to go back in time and meet your ancestors and see the kind of life they led, I daresay you would be interested in this book.

Now available on Amazon for Kindle (and in print in a couple of weeks), Going o

Register today for the upcoming FREE webinars sponsored by the Southern
California Genealogical Society. The webinars are open to the public and the
original webcast is free to all.
 
If you can't make one of the scheduled sessions, remember that members of
the Southern California Genealogical Society can view archived sessions at
any time, day or night, from the convenience of home. A one-year single
membership in SCGS is only $35, which gives you access to the webinar
archive. In addition, SCGS member

Ok, my Great Great Grandmother was Emeline Eula Griffin and she was called Emily.  I have some information on her family but not a lot.  I definitely have her mother's name as she appears in more than one census with Emily, but she is a widow.  There's one census with a possible father.  Here's what I've got.

Emily Griffen was born Aug 4,1857 in North Carolina (possibly McDowell County) and died Oct 8,1925 in Haywood County, NC.  She was married to George Franklin (another brick wall) on Dec. 31