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This website link from Boston.com was recommended on a listserve that I subscribe to and I wanted to share it with my readers. I can’t believe how haunted I am by these photos.
They were taken between 1909 and 1912 by a photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who was commissioned by Czar Nicholas II to do a photographic survey of the Russian Empire. What is really fascinating to me is that there was no color film back in that time. So what he did is he captured three black and white
- Personal Family History and Family News. This blog, on Wordpress, is a log of our family history research, and also has snippets of information about our family, either family news in the present, or anecdotes from the past.
- General Genealogy Research: This is a more general blog (on Blogger) on family history and genealogical research, discussing sources and resources, method, technique and theory, including software tools for research.
Sometimes I play around with search engines to see which might be best for genealogical purposes. This is not a scientific study, but just some observations. My usual method is to take a name and try it out in the search box, first without quotations (for example, John Smith), then with quotations (“John Smith), and then “John * Smith” to see what the variations turn up. If I get too many hits, sometimes I’ll add in a town or state name as a limiter.
The other day I was trying out some of the mor
The Blue Star Flag first appeared in 1917, when an Army captain who had two sons serving on the front line designed it as a tribute to
their dedication and service. The flag quickly became the unofficial symbol of a
child in the service. Today, families who have a loved one serving in the
military display a blue star flag in the inside front window of their homes to
show the family’s pride in their loved one who is serving and to rem
Hi all, please bare with me while i get use the all this blog stuff. Im sure ill find my way around. Im looking for family members who live in Glasgow and are related to any of the HARPER family
Hugh HARPER
Born 28th Nov 1886
Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
married 2 April 1920
Houston Renfrewshire Scotland to
Elizabeth MILLER
born 16 feb 1897
Millport, Buteshire Scotland
They had 6 children
James HARPER
Born 14 Oct 1920 Houston Renfrewshire
Married
Elizabeth Agnes GRANDISON
27 Nov 1940
George Miller HARPER
Bo
...no not that one! "Adoption", genealogically speaking. By that what I mean is an "adoption" that can put a knothole in your family tree. Let me give an example from my own experience. There is a family debate as to whether my Great-Grandfather is adopted or not. George Grimsley was born 27 Oct 1867, Emporia, KS to John Smith Grimsley and Katherine (Drake) Grimsley. I have found numerous references to his birth, including the almost definitive Cutler's History of Kansas and Kansans, which says
1. Failing to look for and record the correct full name of an ancestor.One of the side benefits of looking at a large collection of usersubmitted family trees is that it is fairly easy to compare thesubmissions of any one individual and see the variations. In this case, Ihave used Ancestry.com's Public Member Trees and New FamilySearch forthe li
Hi Folks,
any one know anything about the Most Rev Daniel Lavery who servedin St Louis circa 1896-1906
The John Harvard statue located in Harvard Yard
A few years ago Philadelphia began a campaign to stop tour guides from telling myths and to start studying history before beginning their jobs. They plan to certify each guide with an exam, and fine them for leading tours without this certificate. Philadelphia is the city where the Betsy Ross House is a top attraction, and there is no evidence that she ever even sewed a flag. In my opinion, a certificate should not be required by law, but I would ch
WILLIAM HARVEY HINKLE'S PARENTS WERE ANN KESNER AND JACOB HINKLE. ANY INFORMATION???
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