This week, I will be spending some time researching the Cemeteries of Kingston upon Hull, in East Yorkshire. Between 1880 and 1910, the Cemeteries grew at a rate only equalled by the continued growth of the City. From a tiny medieval town surrounded by green fields, Henry VIII’s favourite stop over expanded to more than 10 times its original size.
Recent records exist of Burials dating back to 1847 and Parish records detail burials before that.
Read More at www.ancestrycentral.co.uk
I am going to post this to the blog page hoping we will be able to reach out to the homebound, gasoline broke home bound and all other researchers. I think this is going to be the way of the future due to gas prices and the situations of today.
Come join a chat (class) Instructed here at Genealogywise.com or if you still also have an aol.com address attend the various chats held there. Do not over look Looking4Kin 's web site and chats that are held there.
Rita & I do a Thursday chat at 6 pm on
Today I joined this web site in hopes of learning more about my family through connecting with more "cousins" and friends of our families. I am going to try and add information about people in my family, their stories as I have learned about them. I hope you will join me in reading about their lives, adventures, thoughts and times.
My father's side of the family, though with plenty of questions and mysteries, is a much easier (and I use that term lightly) to find and research. They are all in
I' have a blog entitled: The Grimke-Drayton notes. All you have to do is type the name in the search engine, and you will be linked with the blog. It's a mixture of poetry and introduction to my genealogical research. Check out my website - http://www.grimke.co.uk - for information on my family's roots in South Carolina. I'm hoping to post on the blog articles with information on the families on which I've been researching.
I'm going to be in the States between 16-26 September this year - 16-19 i
Do you have days when you wish your interest in documenting your family's history had sprouted and put down roots when you were ....oh, about 10 or 11 years old? I certainly do. Why didn't I notice that we never seemed to talk about my dad's side of the family in our home? Why didn't we ask his parents all those great questions like "how did you meet?" or "what were your brothers and sisters like?" Perhaps because my maternal grandmother lived with us and the fact that she was actually born
I was at a Bat Mitzvah this past Saturday and the presiding rabbi gave a sermon on the gift of time. He had seen an ad for a famous jewelry company that depicted a graduate in cap and gown, with a new watch on her arm. The caption was, “There Is No Present Like The Time”, which of course, is a twist on the old idiom, “There Is No Time Like The Present” to show that the watch was the gift of time. But the watch is also a metaphor for the larger definition of time. I wish I had the sermon to place
The Wise Genealogist Class has started. I have read classmates blogs about experiences with RSS feeds and have discovered that I really subscribed to way too many news blogs, so I deleted all of the news blogs and stuck to genealogy and writing, mostly genealogy. I could not understand why I was getting I was getting newspaper articles from all over the country related to genealogy. Then I realized that because I had a folder for genealogy, google was kindly finding all the genealogy news fr
Starting in the Middle of the Page for Genealogy.
Now have you ever done that? Leapt in with both feet and landed in the middle, the choice to go forward or to go back wards. Do we look to the future generations or do we look at the past generations? It makes for an interesting tilt to your research.
Some times unorthodox methods shake the tree and good fruit falls from it.
Some say that I am out to collect the most relatives I can, no that is not the truth. I am out to get the be
With regards to a blog posted by Patricia Aceves Wyble comments on Jesus Echeverria:
On July 20, 1889, Jesus Echeverria of Warm Springs sold 32.58 acres of land to my grandfather, Antone C. Alvernas (Alvarnos, Alvarnaz). Snr Echeverria was a grantee of the land from Tomas (thomas) Higuera son of Fulgencio Higuera grantee of the Ranchio Aqua Caliente (adjacent to the Los Tularcitos grant of Santa Clara County.
As an additional point of information: Fulgencio Higuer's daughter, Maria Margarita H
Disasters Week
Disasters were the fire, after I moved. Tornado when I was a Junior in the High School. Floods many times we had floods. Fortunately it damaged only the foundation and out buildings and we have had to reset the one corner of the house a few times. The house sets on a rock base and only one corner is not. Large old style timbers make the base of home very strong sturdy. Winds and water was the most normal damage we would have. Trees blown over and road blocked were a winter once in
Radio and Television
We listened to lots of Radio and did not have a TV until I was 13 plus. We could not watch it but on Friday night and Saturday evening Talent shows and Sunday news early. Later we watched Sky King and other events.
Ed Sullivan Show, was popular. I loved the detective shows on radio.
Toys Week
Toys, well we had dolls, cowboy boots, guns and bows and arrows. We built Lincoln Logs and Erector Sets.
We did a lot of games and reading.
Technology
The changes were computers in
Family Traditions on New Years Eve.
Yes, we gathered family together, near and not far and had food and played cards and games. Dad and I would make eggnog and Mom would have with our help made pies and brownies. Family and friends that came would bring a dish or dessert also. Dad liked to make homemade eggnog that way no chemicals in his drink or eggs. We lived on a ranch and chemicals were coming into play big time in feed mill plants to increase growth and production in animals. Dad did
I am a descendant of brave men & women who endured great hardships in an effort that their offspring have better opportunities. My paternal heritage is largely from Kildonan Parish, Sutherland, Gunn, MacKay, Matheson, Bannerman, Sutherland, who came to North American in 1813 on the ship 'Prince of Wales'. The passengers were put out prematurely in the Hudson Bay where they endured illness and a harsh winter before travel south to the Red River settlement in 1814. Other Kildonan parishioners f
This is an update to an earlier post "What Do You Do ?" where I talked about finding a gedcom online and not knowing the resources or who posted it. Well I contacted the "poster" and got a reply,but he didn't exactly elaborate on his sources or the work overall. The answer's I was looking for sort of went "unanswered". Kind of makes me suspicious but hey,genealogy is a constant work in progress and I informed the person that if I discover mistakes I would let them know and they could make adjust
**The following is a press release from F + W Media, they publish Family Tree Magazine. This press release has to do with a book that I am writing for them.
March 31, 2011
Contact: Jacqueline Musser
(513) 531-2690 x 11467 or
jacqueline.musser@fwmedia.com
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Food is a key ingredient in every family’s history: Dad’s Saturday morning pancakes, the marzipan Granny served every Christmas, the spaghetti sauce recipe passed down f
In the news yesterday is a story about a couple who are engaged and planning to wed soon. What makes this story really unusual is that they have the same name, Kelly Hildebrandt, and they met on Facebook.
One night (female) Kelly was bored and typed her name into Facebook to see what came up. Up popped Kelly Hildebrandt but it was a guy and he was in Lubbock Texas. She sent him a note that said “Hi, We had the same name. Thought it was cool.” He “thought she was pretty cute” and on it went.
The st
I've learned from my research over the last two years that my paternal great great grandmother Catherine Josephine Connelly Jones was a survivor of the first degree. Born in County Leitrim, Ireland, about 1829, she endured the Great Hunger. A letter found in her Civil War Widow's Pension file came all the way from Mohill, County Leitrim, from the priest who married Catherine and her husband James R. Jones in 1849. Nearly 15 years later, her remebered them both well. The information that prov
