Farnham, Weston, Ripley & Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire- Free Headstone Images dating from 1770

Where Do You Think You Find It?

Registration opens March 15 with
a special $99 price through March 18!

What is in store for you at Midwestern Roots 2012?

• More than 30 thought-provoking lectures from nationally known speakers Dick Eastman, Shamele Jordon, J. Mark Lowe, Thomas MacEntee, Daniel S. Poffenberger, Juliana Smith, Curt B. Witcher and more

• Genealogy’s Next Generation presented by D. Joshua Taylor

• Cincinnati Panorama: Windows to Ancestors’ Lives

My gggrandfather Henry Knupp was born in Germany about 1836 and gggrandmother Margeat Shank about 1835. They show up on the United States 1870 census in the state of Ohio as a teamster. I don't know anything else about Knupp or Shank in Germany. Would anyone know how to find any information or know anything about these two families? 

 New York Church Records

 This week past has brought much discussion on NY state church records.

 I have used usgenweb.org and then the county to gather what I could find prior to asking for more help.

 More help is found in many places.  I do not know if the Way Back Machine will find Barbara's site anymore.

 I use Cliff Lamere's site often.

Albany & Eastern New York Genealogy - Cliff Lamere

It has over 1,300 links and 200  webpages.  Make sure you read his front page regarding search engines before

Anna Dorthea Rasmussen was born on the 28 September 1869 in Stokkemark, Lolland, Denmark.  They emigrated to the USA in about 1872 or 73.  She is listed in 1880 census of Campbell, Wilkin County, Minnesota, USA as the eldest child of Lars and Hannah Rasmuson.  I would like to know more about her parents including her mother's maiden name.

St. Patrick's Day Wishes

There is much written about this event and holiday.  It seems it is observed in many places besides the USA and Ireland.  

Green Beer, Cornedbeef and Cabbage, Shamrocks, Shamrock Shakes (mint shake Mc Donald's), etc.  I think most drive in's have them.  Did he drive the snakes out of Ireland? Did his staff change?  I sure can not say but I can say Happy Anniversary to my brother and his wife for they married on this day.  Luck of the Irish Maybe,

We have more Irish and Scot

It’s human nature to want to memorialize someone who has recently died. We want people to know who they were by allowing friends and family to come together and provide thoughts, insights and memories of the departed. Online, this is big business. This is because it can be shared all over the world and provides a platform that everyone can access, at any time.Here is my list of some of the top online memorial websites and obituary tribute websites. They are not ranked in any order of popularity

Mark Stein’s first book, How the States Got Their Shapes, answered a number of questions that have puzzled people for years. Why does Missouri have that little boot heel on its southeast corne

WESTMINSTER, Colo., 12 March 2011—The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History today announced its course lineup for this year’s British Institute. This weeklong, intensive institute will be held from 8–12 October in Salt Lake City. This year’s host hotel is the Radisson Downtown, located two blocks from the Family History Library. Registration is now open and class size is limited.

The Institute offers four tracks taught by expert genealogists:

• Records and Strategies for B

POSSIBLY going to the Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands area sometime this spring.  Taking out a few birds with one stone, vacation, genealogy trip. 

POSSIBLY going to the Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands area sometime this spring.  Taking out a few birds with one stone, vacation, genealogy trip. 

Looking for information on Robert Kilgore b. 1735 Ireland. m. Winney Clayton. I have had FTDNA tests. Would like to share information, use my email: johnkilgore@satx.rr.com

I'm starting to unravel information on my father's side of the family.  My maiden name of Pooler.  

For a long time my father's family specifically the Poolers have been a big mystery to me.   My father enlisted in the Navy in 1950.  He served during the Korean War.  His home port for many years was San Diego, California.  He was stationed at Great Lakes, Chicago where he met my mother in 1953.  She was sixteen.  They saw each other as much as they could and were engaged after 6 months.  The enga

I'm starting to unravel information on my father's side of the family.  My maiden name of Pooler.  

For a long time my father's family specifically the Poolers have been a big mystery to me.   My father enlisted in the Navy in 1950.  He served during the Korean War.  His home port for many years was San Diego, California.  He was stationed at Great Lakes, Chicago where he met my mother in 1953.  She was sixteen.  They saw each other as much as they could and were engaged after 6 months.  The enga

Hi, all,

I am the family historian for the Johansen-McSherry family.  Unlike many of the Norwegian immigrants who settled in Brooklyn, our side of the Johansens settled on Staten Island, New York.  I know some things about our Johansen side, but am always eager to find out more.

If you have come across any information that you think would be helpful to me, please post a message  here.  Also, if I can be of any assistance to any of you, please let me know.

Thanks,  Gerry

How far have you gotten on the Smith's? Vermilya's,  etc.  There is lots on Google, including biographies of George. B. R. Smith, and Theophilus Washington Smith, and etc. 

I have Thomas Smith's will from 178?? something.  Where he lists all his 6 children.  oldest son: Richard, married well and was a great realestate developer, etc in NYC.  George, a bank president, Theo W. a Supreme Court justice in Illinois.  (btw , he is the only person ever impeached in Illinois, before Blagojovich!

my email

Craig Kilby is looking for supplemental information on War of 1812 veterans 

buried in Shenandoah County, VA, who have German names.  Contact Craig at 

persisto1@gmail.com.  He is working on a special War of 1812 project in 

Virginia.

Cristopher RINKER, b. 1776, d. 1842, 

John W. WINE, b. 1776, d. 1844, m. Elizabeth Unknown

John FRYE, b. unkown, d. 1872, m. 1815 Phoebe Ann Painter

Jacob FUNKHOUSER, b. 1766, d. 1846, m. 1791 Margaret Uknown

Henry PONZER, b. 1788, d. 1854, m. Eve Myers/Moyers

George KELLER

Are you ready to jump into the future and bring the past with you?

There are things we can do online today that we could not do several years ago.

We can easily share our surnames and thoughts and knowledge with each other.

In some mediums we can share pictures and documents which in the past we could not.

Sometimes seeing is believing and it makes the topic make more sense. 

Do you think we could have a chat showing how to Site Your Sources?

Do you think we could teach someone how to use a new Geneal

One of the things that we have learned from the Who Do You Think You Are series is that not everything on our ancestors is available online. Remember that large document on Reba's English ancestors from the 1600s? Or the marriage register that awaited Martin Sheen in Italy? Or the newspaper articles on Blair Underwoods gt gt gt grandfather Sauney, the conjurer?

What did these episodes all have in common? The celebrities had to travel to their ancestral homeland to find the information they were

The Guild of One-Name Studies has reached another milestone. Today the 6,000th member joined the Guild of One-Name Studies. She is Mrs Sue Fisher-Pascall who lives in Chichester, UK. This milestone follows a very successful year for the Guild of One-Name Studies in 2010-11 when the Guild achieved its highest number of new members ever.

Of the 387 new members joining in 2011, 220 were from the UK, 69 from the US, 33 from New Zealand, 26 from Australia, 17 from Canada and 15 from Ireland. The rem