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  I am interested in information on Archibald Powell as he relates to the Vannest,Field, Ten Broeck's, Dudley's and Powell's. I have several of Anna Powell Hagaman's letters from the 1920's written to her niece Grace Ann Arnold Powell. She talks alot about family history and has given me many good leads not to mention just good reading material.

 I have a gap I can not fill- who is Archibald's father and mother? And does this line trace back to Thomas Powell of Long Island?

 Happy to shar

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There has been an ongoing discussion about the “new” NEHGS website at www.americanancestors.org  and on their Facebook group. Lots of folks are having trouble navigating the new search site, and finding their favorite databases.   Actually, this website is no longer new, since it has been around since late last summer.  The way things move so quickly with technology, I wouldn’t be surprised to see additional changes by now at the NEHGS site after six months.  Most of the genealogists involved wi

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A while back, my niece's husband asked me if I would help him look into his ancestry. (He thought that perhaps his family had “come from whales”.) Seeing as he was and still is serving our country in the Air Force, I was happy to see what I could help him find. In addition to showing him how to do basic census records research, I ran some searches on several of the online digitized book sites. We were both amazed at what I found about one of his ancestors in a book on HeritageQuest -- John & Sus

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Hi everyone, I'm new here.

I'm Charles J. O'Berry (Berry) from Arizona. I'm looking for some help in my research.

My grandfather was Charles Otto Berry Sr. from Morgan City, Louisiana. He was born Oct 10, 1900 in Morgan City. His mother was Lydia Caroline Written and his father was Millard Fillmore Berry Sr.

Lydia passed away soon after the birth of my grandfather and he was raised by an uncle who's name was Bigler.

What I am looking for is the name of Millard Fillmore Berry's father. He may have be

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My Father and his family were from Belleville and East St. Louis, IL

Trying to find history and burial location of Charles & Elizabeth
Rouge (Nee Perrin or Parrin or Parron) from East St. Louis and
Belleville. 1870 to 1920
It is spelled all 3 ways on family records that I have on my Father
and my Aunt below..

My Father - Charles Leo Rouge b 1900 and his Sister (My Aunt) Lilly
Maria b 1897 were their children. They were placed into St. Johns
Catholic orphanage in Belleville IL when my Grandmother

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In the course of my research I have realized that many of my earliest Swedish ancestors were priests in the Catholic church prior to 1530 and Lutheran's after that. There was even one who had to face the ecclessiastical court and then the King's court to prove he didn't have Catholic leanings although he was ordained in the Lutheran church.

If I ever traced all of their descendants(which might take several lifetimes lol) I would have distant relatives all over the world as if I didn't already.

Wha

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 The Lemon Grove library is hosting talks  twice a month to promote genealogy in the community.

  We meet 6 to 7:45 pm at 8073 Broadway, Lemon Grove, Ca 91945

 

   Susi Pentico has presented countless talks and some guest speakers over the last almost ten years.

   We have had as few as 4 and as many as  23 at any one event. 

 

   Being situated in the mid area of the county it was hoped to reach out to those who could not get to other 

   events in the region. 

 

   Many attendees have broken brick wall

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Bradley's of New Orleans,La. 1897

 Hi ,,,,I would like to find info. on my mother 's family. My Mother was  BRUNETTA LLOYD BRADLEY. She was the youngest of 4 daughters of ?&? Bradley. I am embarassed I do not know my Grandmother or Grandfather Bradley's  first names.

My mother was born March 20,1897 in New Orleans.La.I believe her sister's names were; TaTee ,Josey,and Charlotte . Charlotte may be "TaTee",,"lottee",not sure. 

Brunetta Lloyd bradley married  Isaac Nichols Tower (I Believe) in 1918.

Any Info. would be appreciated.  Re

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Most people that have families take on the onerous and reflective task of writing a will which provides instructions for the distribution and disposable of our physical assets after we die. Some are very complicated and involve the establishment of trusts to by-pass generations, leaving collections and assets to future generations. Some are very simple distribution of property to surviving relatives. But most people neglect considering how to pass on their accumulated knowledge and memoirs, who
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  Early Census Records and how to glean knowledge for them for your research is the goal of Shirley's talk on Saturday at the library

4375 Bonita Road, Bonita,CA 91902 12 to 3 pm

.My talk will be on working with the first Five Census Taken of the United States. At first glance they are discouraging as there doesn't seem to be very much information, but appearances are deceiving. With patience and perseverance facts can be discovered and ancestors found. By tracking children and ages within locatio

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John Legore

I'm looking for info on John Legore, I know he was born in France in 1755 but I don't know anything prior to that so if you have any info please let me know . Thank you Anthony
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  Over on another of my blog pages I posted a note  about a seminar some of us at CVGS attended last weekend.

 

  Hemet - San Jacinto Genealogical Society hosted a great day of knowledge and prizes and terrific lunch.

 

  Lunch was provided by the Boy Scouts of America.  I am learning new methods of lunches all the time.

  We are hoping for a large seminar like we did last October this October, so my eyes and ears are out there learning.

  We had a choice of three types of large sandwiches, Potato Sa

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       Lemon Grove Genealogy Event

 

        8073 Broadway, Lemon Grove, Ca

 

                Preserving our History

 

                    2 March 2011

 

                   6:15 to 7:45 P M

 

                Susi Pentico, Presenting

 

       Come Join in the Fun of Learning How Easy

       Yes, Easy you can help Preserve some of your

       Family History for your Family.

 

      Since it was recently learned we are loosing

      History faster than we are making it, you'll  

      find this fun and easy.

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I am trying to learn how to blog.

I have networked blogs on my facebook but can't figure out how to be able to post there. So can only read blogs. I seem to have to sign back into facebook if I use my gmail account for anything. I get so frustrated. I watched DearMyrtle from the archives on blgging and set up a blog on blogspot.com. I have yahoo as my search engine and I use Internet Explorer IE 8. I also have a yahoo mail account. I am so lost. I rarely use google to search but everything DearMyrtle and Legacy seems to suggest
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The Pringle/Prindle History I have so far

Frederick Pringle - 1 Pringle

b. Oct. 10, 1863 St. Clair, MI & d. Sept. 1937 Lakefield

m. Lydia Bulman 1883 (parents: John Ely Bulman & Florence Mary Herrick b. on Mackinac Island d. Los Angles, CA)

 

Fredrick and Lydia's children: Hazel, John, Myrna, Pearl, Leroy, Carrie, Arabella, Harry, Blanche, Glenn

 

Alexander - 2 Prindle/Pringle

b. c 1528 Ontario Canada

m. Sept. 21 1858 St. Clair , MI Sophrona E. Gould "Safiney" 

 

SEE:1852 Canada Census Townsend, Norfolk Co. Ontario

p.11d/12a PRINDLE: Priscilla 50,

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help

Im trying to start a family tree for my son and i need the hall's the dooley's the scott's the cook's and the tibbe's.

 

the hall's

include kathrine scott who is married to Jimmie Hall

who had 4 kids Leroy (my father) the oldest then marilyn, sandra, and paula

 

the dooley's

include Dora cook who married Anthony Dooley

who had 4 kids Anthony(my fiancee) the oldest chrisandra, clara, and Jill.

 

The tibbe's

include Gerald Tibbe(deceased) who married ellen tibbe

who had 8 kids which my mother was one of them

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These days, many of us take photos with our phones and send them to each other via email or post them online to various photo sharing websites such as Flickr and Twitpic. I’ve also got photos on my Facebook profile and there’s some video clips of me speaking on my website. I don’t have photos of my family or my children when they were young on my iPhone or even in my wallet. I suppose I should get some in there! My husband carries a photo of me and photos of the kids taken around 20 years ago in

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Some Sites Shared Worth Noting

As a family historian and genealogist I thought I'd pass along a few websites worth noting ... (From a Friend with permission)
 
http://thomasday.net/ The Thomas Day Education Project (TDEP) ... see more on the project.
"Thomas Day (1801 – 1861) was a 19th-century free African-American craftsman and a founding father of the modern Southern furniture industry. " 
 
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First Church, Nashua, New Hampshire

When we first moved to Londonderry, New Hampshire I was surprised to find there was no Congregational church.  Nearly every town in Massachusetts has one!  Almost every New Hampshire town has one, too, but since Nutfield was founded by the Presbyterians, the churches remained Presbyterian for a long time.  The First Church in Derry changed to Congregational in the 1800s, and I tried a few services there.  My husband was working in Nashua, and he said several co-workers attended the First Church

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