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Finding Search Places on Line

I read many blogs and the Huffington Post.  I find potential links for places to research all the time.

Here are some more:

United States Ancestry|Free Ancestry Research

Monday’s Link Roundup. | Dan Curtis ~ Professional Personal Historian  a mix of links he posts here.

Family Tree DNA - FAQ Answers

Cumberland County PA USGW Archives - Cemetery Records

Blog | Irish Origenes: Use Family Tree DNA to Discover Your Genetic Origins | Clans of Ireland | Irish Surnames

MapBygones

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 I was concerned about creating a Pinterest “bulletin board” for an ancestor, and then pinning a census image from Ancestry to that board. Although clicking on that image links back to Ancestry, and although I had cited the image source as Ancestry.com I wasn’t sure if I was violating some sort of term of agreement with Ancestry. I had seen bloggers post an image to a blog, but was this the same at Pinterest?

 

Then last month Pinterest introduced new code for websites and blogs that want to block

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Most people grow up without ever wondering about their last name. Their entire family has the same one, right? No, not at all. Sure in today's world it's not so unheard of, heck some people even have alternative last names, but in the 1960's not so much. My last name was not the same as my mother's. She used her maiden name. Her mother was remarried and had more children so when we visited, they all had the same last name too. I grew up spending time with my Bledsoe cousins.. there were LOTS of

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Ancestry.com Releases Completely Searchable 1940 U.S. Federal Census

A searchable index to 134 million records makes researching family history in the latest available U.S. Census dramatically easier

PROVO, UTAH – (August 3, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, is proud to announce that it has completed the records indexing process for the 1940 U.S. Federal Census, which is available at www.ancestry.com/1940census. All 134 million records are now easily searcha

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In today's world we feel lost without our car keys, or cell phones, our instant this and instant that. Even the things we do not realize that we would be so completely lost without, like sweet milk, air conditioning (of course I would never be without this one), daily mail (now known as snail-mail), 30 minute meals(oh boy) these are things that we live with day in and day out mostly without even thinking about it and when things go wrong or things don't work out, l think, "How am I ever going to

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Indroduction; My Genealogy Journey

Hello Fellow Treasure Seekers!

I always feel like I have struck gold each and every time I hit something really great in my genealogy searching. Sometimes it's only a small piece of information but then sometimes it's a rich vein. So I consider myself a treasure seeker.

I have always been interested in our family histories. When I was a small child, I traveled with my grandparents to Texas to visit my great grandparents. It astonished me that they had been born in a time before cars, and indoor pl

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 Look for Educational Information  for the society, thought sharing here may help others with their research.

 Researching German Ancestors - Guide to German Genealogy

 Shared by a cousin in Montana, it is full of great information on names and places.

 It does have a great link to the origins of many ethnic names.
name origins - About.com : Genealogy

German Surname Meanings & Origins - Last Names From Germany - Top 50 German Surnames

 About.com is a new site for me. 

 

Truly enjoy this site about Irish

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Findmypast Day at FGS 2012

Explore your roots at findmypast day during FGS 2012

Join findmypast.com at the upcoming Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Birmingham, Alabama for findmypast Day.

 

Created for anyone interested in family history, this special event is for those wanting to learn a few family history basics and for anyone interested in discovering how to use findmypast.com as a resource to extend your family tree. 

 

Date and Location: Saturday, September 1, 2012 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention

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I found a John Hageman married to a Clerke in the 1600's does anyone have any idea of their offspring?  Also does anyone have any information on Clark's, Clarke's, Clerk's daughter married to a Hagerman(Hageman, Hegeman)  My ancestor John J  Hagerman named his oldest son John Clark I assume after his father, he follows naming traditions with the rest of his children.  He shows up in Ovid, NY in 1818 married Sally Terry and might have been the son of Isaac Hagerman (d1804)  His son Joseph Hagerma

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Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America

 

Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies

 

PROVO, UTAH – July 30, 2012 – A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is the 11th great-grandson of John Punch, the first documented African enslaved for life in American history. Remarkably, the connection was mad

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Why Groups Tend to Falter

Why Groups Tend to Falter

Oh yes, they do falter, get stale and some even disappear. But why does this happen, we ask ourselves?

There is a multitude of reasons for this to happen, whether intentional or not, it can sneak up behind you and you do not even know your going to be hit.

I recall a President saying," we are at 65 members and slowly going backwards, what do we need to do to stop this?"

The many people at that board table brought up lots of reasons.  

Hearing from friends in far off places w

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• Findmypast.com launches into U.S. July 24; seeks to become go-to site for Americans of British and Irish ancestries

 

• World’s second largest genealogy company takes on its biggest rival, with the help of 1,000 unique record collections and 75% annual growth    

 

 

San Francisco, CA. July 24, 2012: Findmypast.com, a British-owned family history website, is launching into the growing U.S. genealogy market on July 24.

 

Findmypast is the flagship brand of brightsolid online publishing, a UK and wor

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From: Kohnke, Diana <dkohnke@library.ca.gov>
Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: Sutro Opening

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Dear Researchers and Friends of the Sutro Library,

I am so very pleased to announce that we will be opening the Sutro Library
on Wednesday, August 1st. Our hours will be Monday through Friday 10AM-5PM.
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All of us here at the Sutro are truly grateful for the patience you have
shown during the move to our new location here at ******San Francisco** **
State** **University****. As I have mentio

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Gearharts, Garhearts

Hi everyone,I am looking for any info about Henry A. Garheart, my great grandfather.He was born in 1844 in Carroll Co., Md., died 1924 in Baltimore.I cannot find anything about him before the Civil War, 1850 and 1860Census readings which might have parents or siblings listed areNowhere to be found. Miles and Benjamin Gearhart are possibleRelatives, but nothing again to be found. Has anyone possibly researched any of these names?Peggy
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Gone But Not Forgotten – A Video Memoir

A couple of months ago, a good friend of mine’s brother passed away unexpectedly. He was in his late 30s and while he did have some medical issues, there was nothing that would have predicted a young and untimely death. Naturally his family was devastated.

A memorial was held and as is typically done, a photo slideshow was hastily put together and shown, along with poems, readings and other memorial elements our culture historically does when memorializing someone.

Not long after, my friend asked

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Those with Scottish heritage benefited this week as two major index collections were added for Scotland—the 1881 and 1891 Censuses. Other free records were also published this week for Canada, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, and the United States. Search these diverse collections and 2.8 billion other records for free at FamilySearch.org.

Searchable historic records are made available on FamilySearch.org through the help of thousands of volunteers from ar
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