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My grandparents Frank and Julia Kohanski along with their childern Jan aka John, Antoinett and two others lived in what is today Kaunas Lithuania. Im trying to find out how I can get any information from that town. When they lived there the town name was Kowno or Kaunas. The came over to US in about 1906. My grandfather Frank was born in 1861, jan or john born 4/15/1903. Any information on how to get started would be very helpful.  Thanks   Tom

Digging into the Ellis Island passenger registry, I came across someone who bore my name, Pedro Sanoja, and visited the United States in 1919.

The Ellis Island passenger registry listed him as Pedro Sanoja, ethnicity:

Venezuela, Spanish-American, only two years old at the time of arrival, and coming from Veracruz, Mexico, in transit to Caracas, Venezuela.

The young Sanoja arrived with his parents, Juan and Matilde Sanoja (34 and 19 years old, respectively) on Oct 03, 1919. He was accompanied by his

More Lincolnshire memorial stones added

St Margaret’s , Quadring , Lincolnshire

St Peter and St Paul , Gosberton, Lincolnshire

St Mary & Holy Rood, Donington, Lincolnshire

A small collection of images of Memorial Headstones and Markers taken at the above cemetery’s are available to download  at Ancestry Central  (www.ancestrycentral.co.uk – go to find a grave – Select Cemetery/name etc) or select this  http://www.ancestrycentral.co.uk/

In addition to those displayed, there are a number of others that

  Today I went to the message boards to see what I could see.

  
   I put in a surname and started reading the boards response.

   What a surprise to find, there was information that I had not looked for before.

   The boards change as people answer queries so some times they do not move for weeks or months and other times

    they move rather quickly.

    It reminded me to look for more than just a surname when you looking for a clue. Remember the region and connected

    names that can relay interest

We all began this search for a particular reason.  How it became an obsession is the same. We cant help but feel the excitement of adding leaves to the branches in our tree. We keep looking for more and more.

In 1970 my History teacher Mrs. Carrol assigned us the project of making a family tree.  At first I panicked. I did not know anything about my family. All of my grandparents were deceased. My father had a hard childhood and spent most of it in a childrens home in New York. Did he know anyth

My blog entry on Wordpress.com  http://wp.me/p1bnNB-3Q

Remembering my Childhood home and my Mother who was the goddess of Clorox and Spic-NSpan cleaners. Full story on Wordpress at http://wp.me/p1bnNB-3G

I blog on Wordpress.com  http://wp.me/p1bnNB-h

I've often found when researching that the tinest snippet of information can lead to a wonderful surprise.  For example, typing surnames into Google Book Search has led me to the following:

A tiny snippet from a railroad magazine that was published for employees, mentioned my father's name. As my father has passed away, you can imagine how this peaked my curiosity.   I decided to research the magazine only to find it was no longer in print.  Not one to give up so easily, I contacted a railroad m

Genealogy at Christmas Time - Yes Family Does Find You

Genealogy at Christmas Time I wrote about yesterday as to why to  write Christmas letters and what the many benefits of the season can bring. 

 Opening my e-mail early yesterday morning, brain was on Michigan time,  I received a letter from a new found Scott cousin. He has information to fill in some of my blanks which in turn will fill in at least 10 other Scott researchers blanks.

 It is always a delight to hear from a new found kin of distan

searching for parents of my grand aunt gertrude erna elisabeth hartwig

born nov 25 1909 britzt jetzt berlin neukolln

died dec 25 1982 berlin spandau stadtrandstrasse

where can i send to to get birth certificates in berlin

any help very appreciated

thanks

When my day is hectic and I'm feeling frazzled, how relaxing it is to just step back into time.  I look around me at all the conveniences that modern day has to offer and wonder how my ancestors ever managed.  Old pictures, a small glimpse of their lives and towns, brings delight, wonder and a thirst to know more.  Whether I am combing through State Archives or searching old newspapers, that tiny clue, the little nugget that gives me the breakthrough I am looking for, makes the pressures of toda

I started out this week on a note of frustration. There was one week to go until Christmas and my office was filled withboxes of cards, boxes of client gifts, and lots of nothing seeming to get done. I was remembering last year, in early January, how I thought to myself that before I knew it, the holiday season and end of the year would be right around the corner. And here I was, sitting at that very corner, feeling overwhelm and experiencing a lot of “Bah Humbug.” “Why do we put ourselves throu

Updated version of world’s most popular free family history software adds new blend of historical content and technological innovation to highlight the depth and diversity in every family’s heritage


PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – December 21, 2011: MyHeritage.com, the largest family network on the web, today announced the release of Family Tree Builder 6.0, the most comprehensive free software for family history fans around the world. With the addition of automatic research in histo

Three Genealogy Powerhouses Join Forces to Publish 1940 US Census

For Immediate Release


16 December 2011


SALT LAKE CITY—Three leading genealogy organizations, Archives.com, FamilySearch International, and findmypast.com, announced today they are joining forces to launch the 1940 US Census Community Project. The ambitious project aims to engage online volunteers to quickly publish a searchable, high quality name index to the 1940 US Census after it is released in April 2012 by the National Arc

For Immediate Release
20 December 2011

20 December 2011– Oakland, CA. The California State Genealogical Alliance (CSGA), announces two new blogs for the genealogical public.

(1) The CSGA Blog (http://www.csga.com/Blog/) is a joint society effort to keep the California Genealogical community informed. Topics include:

• Legislative issues affecting California genealogists
• California Projects including our FamilySearch partnership, the Californ

   Genealogy at Christmas Time

   Genealogy at Christmas Time, "but I am way to busy", is a statement that I frequently hear.

   I can not think of a holiday that is more appropriate to discuss and share Genealogy than this Holiday Season.

   It is like let me count the ways.

   1. You are already exchanging friendly greetings to family and friends.

   2.  Did it ever occur to you that the family friend may be kin?

   3.  People are  more talkative and outgoing during this time of year.

   4.  Genea

 Christmas is Almost Here

 I have been doing the Advent of Christmas on one of my blogs. I will print it out Christmas Eve and put in folders for the various adult members of our family.

 I think it was a great thing to do so I could share data about Christmas's past. It seems we seldom set around and talk about what we did last year or the year before or ten years ago.  So the younger generation is not getting the information passed down to them to carry on. 

 It seems that parades, football and o

Recently I was one of three guest speakers on tonight’s GeneaBloggers Radio – Episode 45

The title of the show is “Capturing Family Memories – All Year Round.” 

You can go to my blog to listen to a clip from the show:

http://legacymultimedia.com/about/press/

Scroll down to Televsion and Radio, it is the first link.

If you would like to hear the entire show, my blog entry, with link, may be found here...>

I originally decided to start searching my families genealogy when there was a scare that my mother was very ill and was told my mother had 6-8 more weeks to live.  She was diagnosed with Pulmonary Artery Disease.  With lots of prayers she is still with us today.

I was very courteous about my family origin.  All my grandparents had all past away before I was born and because of family drama not much was said about them.  My mother talked about how different her parents were and how my great Grand