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As Erin put it “It is my attempt to make sense of my ancestors, their place in time, and the communities they lived in as they moved west in Canada”. She had been on since August the 11th , and has written such blogs as “Vic and Cassie Lloyd”, and 'The Benefits of Asking Questions and Questioning Answers”.

She also does blogs on such subjects as “Friday Funny”, “Saturday Surnames”, and “Tombstone Tuesday Erin writes with an easy and informed style, and one hopes that she keeps up the blog so that

There are two genealogical societies in Canada which have a writer's group. They are

They say that they will be “Exploring writing techniques — how to find and develop a theme, how to add details to catch th

Lately, I keep running into people who say, “I haven’t checked into your blog this week but I’m wondering how things are going with your parents?”
These are questions that make me happy because I’m thrilled to know that people read my blog and feel the desire to catch up with what’s going on. Also, this life stage with my parents seems to resonate with so many of my friends and readers. So many people have dealt with, or are dealing with, this stage in life where you’ve finally gotten your colle

Did your ancestor make the mad dash for Oklahoma land?  Find out!http://goo.gl/4pZmf

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Did you ancestor live in central New York?  He may have received a patent for land in the NY Military Tract. 

How could a man who had not served in the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812 still end up with a patent for military bounty lands?  Find out! 

Recently went to Wilmington NC to their local historical collection in the downtown library.  They have a subscription to Footnote.  Its a nice database with things from the civil war, census documents and for some states naturalization records.  You really should check this out at a library near you.  I found my grandparents naturalization paper, and consequently I know now where they were born.  Thanks Footnote.

http://goo.gl/2HGBJ

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The State Library of NC is undergoing a project to transcribe and digitize family Bibles in NC and needs our help. If you are interested in helping, please see the following blog post for more information:

http://ning.it/pSo0YR

Please feel free to pass this information on to those who may be interested!

I’m often not sure what the age range of my readership is, but probably most of you are not too young to remember the old-style accordion photo wallets that people (primarily grandmothers) used to keep in their purses before the advent of digital devices that not only make phone calls, but serve as virtual luggage for all of our digital data, including photos.

A photo wallet is a sleeve of connected plastic photo cases that usually fold up in an accordion fashion upon themselves. Sometimes they s

http://www.susansgenealogyblog.com/2011/08/11/donation-land-claims

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

Please also explore the other collections and revisit as I start to add my collection. Download for personal use is Free.

Please note this is a small personal collection, but large enough to be worth displaying – I am happy to receive contributions from other people and credit them a

In January of 2008, Money Magazine wrote an article comparing 6 of the most popular scanning services. They sent 40 prints to the six different companies and rated them on cost, turnaround time and scan quality.

The top rated company was ScanCafe. ScanCafe operates out of Bangalore India so when you send photos to them, they are shipped over to India to be scanned. The images are then posted online and you are allowed to reject up to 50% of your order. After you have chosen the images you want to

I am working on my marketing plan for gsgenealogy and next month the business plan is due.  I took a SBDC course in developing a Business Plan but there were no sample plans for Genealogy research available from the resources they provided.  The template they provided was a useful tool to begin the marketing plan.