As a major user of maps in my genealogy adventures I wanted to share this post from NGS to those whom read
this blog. Yes, you can pass it along also.
Maps can unlock doors, direct you where you really need to be looking and explain how a person lived in four
places and never moved.
I also suspect that few genealogists are members of NGS and are aware of this information.
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Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Maps, Maps and More Maps
Maps are definitely an excellent resourc
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June 29, 2011 I will be presenting a talk on Migration Patterns to our local Chula Vista Genealogical Society.
Here in is a synopsis and I am willing to present to the Thursday night group at 6 pm the same information after
29 June. Vital Records time.
Migration Patterns
I will be presenting information on some of the Migration Patterns that our Ancestors have used with the development of the Colonies and then United States.
Starting with some migration across Europe to the United States.
What information can we find for one family from one page of a Census ?
Well how about 3 marriages, 2 agricultural labourers, a widow, a Coal merchant, a cordwainer, 4 siblings living apart, a widower, a nephew, a father in law, a mother in law, cousins, and several scholars ! Not to mention the uninhabited buildings.
A brief family study in a part of Scredington village in 1881 Lincolnshire.
Every census document tells us something of our ancestors; where they married ? what did they do ? where di
I have included history, pictures and documents that would be of value to Barnetts as well as allied families from PA, VA, NC, SC and especially Kentucky and Illinois.
With the popularity of the television show Who Do You Think You Are, more people are showing an interest in finding their roots. I am a genealogist, living in Ontario, with an expert in Scottish genealogy research. I offer 10 day trips to Scotland to allow people to access the records directly (as opposed to paying for services of a professional genealogist). I take groups to the repositories in Edinburgh (Scotland's People Centre, The Scottish Genealogy Society, The National Library of Scotlan
Coming from Newton Heath, part of Manchester, a place where the footba
I am not sure if I am related but Harvard University has an extensive collection on the family of Artemus Ward. 1724-1933.
Here is the Link: http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=ward
You may want to print the "Ward family. Artemas Ward House and Ward family papers digital collection: A finding Aid" by Harvard College Library and it will give you the scope of this massive online collection. Trying to figure out how the Ward family of Virginia and Maryland are connected. I do not
I recently added a byline to another genalogy site - Finding Pieces Of Me. Isn't that why we do this, locating relatives live or deceased , knowing that our ancestors make up genectically who we are. Wondering which side of your family you are most like. Searching for pieces of yourself.
Attempting to give a name, find a name , a place in time when someone of your family breathed and walked upon this earth. Questioning your uniqueness and aspirations. Were they lost on another? In the tim
DICKERSON, ELIZABETH A. Died, in great piece, at her home on Main Street,
in Nicholasville, July 24th, 1894, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Dickerson, at the
advanced age of 79 years. The deceased was one of the pioneers of
Jessamine county, having been born at the old Dickerson place on the
Chrisman Mill pike, about three miles from Nicholasville, Sept. 20, 1815.
She was the eldest daughter of Fountain Dickerson and Mary Rice Dickerson.
Here she lived until her marriage to her cousin, Newton Dickerson, in 1836.
Fo
As I was waking up this morning, I was aware of a dream that I was having. In the dream, I was sitting at a dining room table with the family of a client that I had done a video biography for. It was obvious that this person had recently passed and we were discussing the biography. A woman seated to my right said, “well that biography was wonderful except for that huge lie that she told about having lived in the palace at Versailles!”
At that point, I woke up and, after having a good laugh, I tho
A Rootsweb List member sent this information in to the List.
NARA has announced that April 2, 2012 is the first date the 1940 census will
be open.
Also contact your California Assemblyman regarding the $9 fee hike for Vital Records for the state.
 Fees would be $28 for birth Certificate raised by $9.oo. A couple of dollars I could acccept but $9.??? |
CA AB1053 Slated to Raise Cost of Certified Copies of Vital Records Posted: 16 May 2011 08:32 PM PDT Assemblyman Gordon has introduced AB1053 and the bill has been referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Hearing will held on May 18, Wednesday. See links below to contact information for author and members of the Committee on Appropriations. This bill woul |
Having just left the great new page on Facebook for the Old Golden Gate Forum group and others and seeing how it
has expanded in the last 24 hours, I could not resist this tidbit. For two years we quietly languished for finding our old roommates and chatter friends and workers. Facebook changes a format and we have had 60 people found that never knew they were lost.
It is hoped we can encourage them to come to this site and re start some of the great group sessions we had in days of old.
