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My great great grandfather Caleb Rand Bill was a music professor in Salem, Massachusetts before the turn of the 20th century.  Whilst researching his story, I found out about two other early music teachers in Salem, who were both Spanish immigrants.  It is interesting that they became ardent abolitionists around the time of the American Civil War.

Manuel Fenollosa came to Salem from Spain with his brother in law, Manuel Emilio in 1838 on the US navel frigate United States.  They had both been mus

I don't have a blog, rather I operate AncientFaces. I began the website back in 2000 and now it has over 50,000 family photos that were submitted by the genealogy community. I urge everyone to check for photos of their ancestors and to share their own. AncientFaces is 100% free and advertisement supported - so there is never a cost involved!

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I just added my blog site in my profile here. I tried it and it went there.

http://sharonsfamilyandotherstuff.blogspot.com

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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

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

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

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

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

 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

 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

  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

  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

       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.