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I have been gathering and planning out a scrapbook project to go long with my genealogy / history project. Scrapbook projects do take time and if you do not catch some really great sales they can be costly. The up side is that family members that might not want to look at data and plain charts might really like to see your handy work. There are also some really cool things that I have found to aid in the creative side of this project. Here are some really great examples of things you can find al

As far as finding data on family and history I tend to be pretty good at that and have been able to score some really great finding on our family. Sadly I have become a data collector however and now its time to start putting all that "Stuff" into a program to organize it and make since out of all this information. WOW! what a task this is going to be with the information, documents, pictures etc that I have collected in a very short year or so. Being a data collector is only one step to researc

For those of your who still doubt the importance of updating your game plan to using more current on line and program resources I would like to give you some examples of how using some of these modern day wonders have expanding not only my research but has expanded my family also.

One of the greatest things to come out of my research is finding a whole group of family members who our family had never had contact with on FACE BOOK of all places. As a result my family now has at least an on line re

I do not spend as much time as I would like to at the Mesa Regional Family History Center, but I regularly teach classes and help patrons. We have a lot of computers for patron use and a man and a woman came into the center and were sitting down to use a computer. I happened to be the closest missionary/volunteer and so I got the brunt of their extreme displeasure. It seems that the Center has spent considerable time re-designing their start-up screen to make it easier for patrons to find and vi

My 3x great Grandfather Peter Hoogerzeil was born on 28 October 1803 in Dordrecht, Netherlands. He had stowed away on a Rotterdam ship to America. It was supposedly full of hemp bound for the ropewalk in Salem, Massachusetts. According to family lore, he married the Captain’s daughter. This story always bothered me because of two reasons. #1, a stowaway was a criminal, and wouldn’t the captain of the ship be angry at this young man? #2, I could never find the name of Peter’s mother and father-in

The character of my great-grandmother, Maria Rawcliffe had always appealed to me. Her name was an evocative mixture of down-to-earth Lancashire grit with echoes of a more flamboyant Latin nature. She looked a formidable lady from the one photograph (left) I had initially of her. To give additional colour there was a, no doubt, apocryphal story that “granny’s dark looks” came from Spanish descent, after an Armada ship had been wrecked off the Fylde coast of Lancashire. All this captured my imagin

My name is Frank Angus Hulbert Jr! I am looking for information on my family line of Snow and how I am related to the indians thru the Snow and the Flowers family Tree and Also thru (Mississippi) Christian Frederic (Carr) Kerr. My complete family tree is at smgf.org A partial family tree is at ancestry.com

I am trying to prove indian ancestry for bloodline! Any help would be greately appreciated

I am also looking for information on the Mayflower of the Rogers family and Bradford family trees to in

Red Sox outfielder, Dom DiMaggio (brother to the more famous Joe DiMaggio), and current San Francisco Giant closer Brian Wilson both resided in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Brian Wilson, “The Bearded One” is well known recently for his popularity during the 2010 World Series. As a teenager he played baseball for the local American Legion team in Londonderry.

George Edward “Duffy” Lewis is buried in the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Londonderry. He played for the Red Sox, Yankees and Senators fro

I came across a paragraph in his book that I

Looking for

(a) Helena Cahalane b 1888 in Cloonkeen, went to Boston 1910, may have returned to Cork 1913 and otherwise missing. Her parents were John and Helena.

(b) Mary Cahalane b 1856, married Patrick Donoghue/O'Donoghue in 1877, 3 children know Margaret, Michael & John born between 1878 and 1887 no further contact.

Any help appreciated. Laim Keilthy

21 February 1873, Cape Ann Advertiser "On Friday afternoon, as one of the workmen in the shipyard of A. O. Burnham was hoisting the bow hasping, it got the best of him and fell striking Mr. Gilman P. Allen (about 63 years old) a glancing blow on the shoulder and head, and knocking him down. Fortunately no bones were broken, but it was a narrow escape from a serious injury."

Gilman Allen (1809 – 1892) was my 3x great grandfather’s brother (Joseph Allen (1801 – 1894). Shipbuilding was a major indus

What started as an hobby sparked by a cousin of mine, I soon realised

1) How enthusiastic some people were to document their relatives

2) How shallow is some peoples' knowledge of their relations ...does not go beyond father / first cousin

3) How valuable is the contribution by the elderly which otherwise would be lost for posterity

It gave me immense pleasure, when relatives started appreciating the efforts when the tree as it grew was being shared with them

ABS Kumar