Based upon information provided on this page and others, we will attempt to build a set of goals here for the current project ofreplacing/updating GEDCOM. This new standard will be referred to as BG(Better GEDCOM) in this discussion.
- BG should remain a file format technology capable of serving as a data archival repository
- BG should be XML-based using Unicode cha
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Lane Family Tombstone
Pine Grove Cemetery, Winnacunnet Road, Hampton, New Hampshire.
William Lane, junior. and his wife Sarah Webster were my 8x Great Grandparents. Their names are on a 1681 list of the members of the 2nd Church in Boston, and sometime after that they removed to Hampton, New Hampshire. Sarah was William’s first cousin. They lived near Sarah’s father, Thomas Webster, near where Hampton Academy now stands. William Lane was a tailor. Deacon Joshua Lane was his son. I descend through
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As a result of this, and to facilitate further exchanges, we've set up a Bagot family forumon YahooGroups, and invite other Bagot researchers to join us there.The forum is intended mainly for people who are interested in ordescended from Bagot families in north Lancashire and surroundingareas. In addition to the usual exchange of messages informi
Huff, Darrell, and Irving Geis. How to Lie with
The following article appeared in the Newberry County, S.C. newspaper dated Nov. 13, 1838.:
Today at the historic Bush River Baptist Church was unveiled a marker erected by the D.A.R. at the grave of Mary Cole, "THE HEROINE OF THE REVOLUTION". She was nee Mary Golden, widow of Lochlin Lenard who was killed by the Tories in 1781. She married Rev. John Cole in 1783.
I am a direct decendant of Rev. John Cole. He was minister of the Bush Baptist Church in Newberry County, S.C. from 1783 until his deat
James Wilson was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire on March 15, 1765. His father was a farmer, and James was an apprentice to a blacksmith. He had little formal education. In 1796 he removed to Bradford, Vermont and taught himself cartography. To make up for a lack of education, he bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. At Dartmouth College he saw a pair of English globes, and became interested in producing his own. He began by turning solid blocks of wood, and covering them with maps. H
I was born and raised in the City, so I'm a city-girl at heart, but I will always remember mygrandparents' weekend place we called "The Country House."
When I was small, I remember feeling like it took forever to driveout of the city, chugging along the four-lane highway crowded with carsmoving no faster than 30 miles an hour. After what was an interminabletime to a youngster, we finally reached Pacific, a truly small town,where we would take a different road.
My grandfather, or Grampy as we ca
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How could anyone think something like this is the right thing to do.
This is one of our nations most treasured national parks.
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