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Back on January 11, 2011 I wrote a post entitled, "Update on the reliability of flashdrives." I am certainly not immune to believing Internet Myths. I am fan of the MythBusters program on TV (which I am too busy to watch) but interestingly some of the myths they set out to disprove actually turn out to be true. But the opposite is very much more likely. Information passed around on the Internet can often be very inaccurate and take on the quality of a myth. Well, due to the efforts of a very kin

I noticed that this thread has been inactive.  Did your application for DAR go through, or are you still working on it?

I spend a lot of time flying back and forth between Houston and Los Angeles to visit my family. The flight is 3 hours and last year I made a commitment to spend that three hour time period working on sorting, identifying and tagging all of my digital photos. By the time we take off, get our complimentary beverages, prepare for the descent, it probably works out to about 2 hours but that time I have totally dedicated to this task. I decided to focus this time on this specific task because I could

Hi All,

This is my first time on this site so I hope I don't mess up too badly.....

this is my Family Tree on the Clark side.

Thomas Clarkston  md Ellender (Nellie) Feathers

Samuel Clarkston  md Nancy Reynolds

James Monroe Clark md Mary Elizabeth Rice

Samuel Henry Clark  md Leila Jane Watson

John Lindesy Clark bn 1900  md Lula Mae Barnes bn 1905

Ninalee Juanita Clark md  William Cecil Holder

William Bennett Holder bn 1955 d 1964

Nancy Dell Holder bn 1957 

My Mother was the 6th child of 12 born to John and

Every now and then I have to take a break from the genealogy.  I don't know why.  I am addicted to the core, but I think it has something to do with interference from the present--children to raise, holidays to celebrate, new memories to forge.

The Nave/Naves branch of my father's family from Kentucky is a serious thorn in my side.  Even after a visit to Kentucky this summer I am not  much closer to finding the origins of Thomas Naves (1823-1866) who was married to Mary Rose.  I have some intrig

While working to preserve my own family history, I realized how rare records were kept of our loved ones burials.  How markers became faded, obituaries lost, the footprint we leave on this world vanished.  My great great Grandfathers records were completely missing, and hours on the phone with the Catholic Church finally resulted in answers. There was no exact location outside of an old photograph my grandma kept of her, with her father, and brother standing by his copper marker. This helped the

Matthew Taylor and his wife Janet Wilson came from Northern Ireland in 1721 and settled in Nutfield, now Derry, New Hampshire.   Matthew was one of the original proprietors of the settlement.  He was born in 1690 and he died 26 January 1770 near Beaver Lake.  They had ten children and many descendants who lived in New Hampshire and Nova Scotia.  Matthew and his sons, Adam and Samuel Taylor, are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry.

The descendants are planning a reunion for August 2011, and th

I received an interesting enquiry today (through my website) regarding a connection between John Lyon of Ryslippe and the Douglas family.  I immediately recognised John Lyon (1510-1592) as the founder of Harrow School, but was not aware of his connection, through the Lyons of Glamis Castle to the Douglas family.

For those not clued up with British geography, Ruislip, to give it the modern spelling, is but a short ride on the Underground from Harrow, in north London.  Glamis Castle is in the middl

1686 BROOKLYN DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH MEMBERSHIP LIST

It was difficult to prevail upon any settled clergyman to leave his charge in Holland and brave the trials of a newly settled country of Nieuw Amsterdam, yet two newly ordained ministers--Hermanus Blom and Henricus Selyns--did just that.

Blom, a candidate for the ministry, had been induced to come out to Nieuw Amsterdam. Arriving about the last of April 1659, he received and accepted a call from the prosperous village of Esopus (now Kingston, NY

TO SOAR WITH THE TIGERS

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

The Life and Diary of Robert Brouk

January 10, 2011 – Chicago, IL. Jennifer Holik-Urban announces the release of To Soar with the Tigers, The Life and Diary of Robert Brouk.

To Soar with the Tigers is the story of Flying Tiger Robert Brouk, a Flight Leader in the 3^rd Squadron of the American Volunteer Group during World War II. In the months prior to Pearl Harbor, until the disbandment of the American Volunteer Group in July 1942, the Flying Tige

Good info on Moutour family

Go to MAIN then GROUPS, type in Native American and then pick the file with the horse on it.  Within that you will find this file along with others.....

After scanning London baptism records multiple times for my Smith ancestors I was confused why I found every baptism record for my ancestors siblings but not for the record for my ancestor Mary Ann Smith? 

Well today I found it!  Her record had a hyphen in it (Mary-Ann Smith). This and several other hyphenated records did not show up with all the others. So, if you are searching Parish records, remember names are often mispelled or perhaps your missing record has a hyphen too.

I often find the rec

Boston July 24. 1867

Dear Aunt,

I received your letter dated May 22/67 and
It was gladly received day before yesterday.
We are having pretty warm weather here now
although it Is not quite as warm today as it usually
is. Sara has been married just one year ago last
Thursday, her husband’s name is William Pierce.
Grandma was very much opposed to the match.
Sara left home & went up to my Father’s brother to
Live Henry Moore’s & I left home last Wednesday
I am now living here with him, I was sorry to do so
but

I have been research the following Cross family.  Can find no tract of Isaac or Ethans's parents.

We received an email from a reader suggesting we write an article comparing the cost and time it takes to create your own keepsake video as opposed to hiring us to create a Legacy video for you. We thought this was a great idea.

When you walk into your local computer store, you are met with aisles of the newest technological toys. They are enticing indeed. We can barely walk into a computer store without turning into a 3 year old at eye-level with the candy aisle! How simple it all looks. Just pl

 Quick up date, we have started sharing some information now in the FB group and one of our family members has a few documents that I did not have that she scanned and posted there. Now I can take those and blow them up and print them out for hard copies. Since they are marriage, death and birth records this is kind of major scoring. So taking the FB challenge to another level paid off for our research in this since. Sharing the information though digital images might not be as fun for some as c

I have been watching “In Treatment“, an HBO drama about a psychotherapist, Paul Weston (with award winning performance by Gabriel Byrne). Each episode is a session with one of his patients, including one session with his own therapist, Gina, at the end of the week. The session with Gina covers some of the things that are going on with his patients but we also learn about Paul’s life. During the series his marriage falls apart and finds him living alone, working at creating a relationship with hi