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Share your family stories before it is too late. That’s my motto in a nutshell. I believe everyone has a story to tell. It’s just a matter of digging deep to find those memories. Of course, proof is in the puddin’ - alright, no more tacky clichés - I'm about to issue you a challenge:
- Grab a pen and paper.
- Number your paper from 1 – 13.
- Write down the top 13 experiences you had in your life before age 23.
It’s a cinch to write down casual highlights: driver’s license @ 16, first kiss, prom-date-from-
This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii for the past two weeks. I’m skipping over the cruise we took for seven days (you can read a short version in yesterday’s post) and recounting our days on the island of Oahu. We checked into another hotel on Waikiki beach, and then immediately rented a car to get to the Bishop Museum.
The Bishop museum was built in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife, the Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, hanai (foster) si
This is a continuation of story of my family history related trip to Hawaii for the past two weeks. Our first day was full of meeting “new” cousins and seeing historic sites related to the Dominis family and Queen Lili’uokalani. This next day we checked out of our hotel on Waikiki Beach, Oahu to board a cruise ship to see the islands of Maui, Hawaii and Kauai. This was the vacation part of the trip, so I won’t go into great detail about the cruise, except to mention a few things:
The ship “Pride
It's an incorrect opinion. You've confused two things. I don't believe in lines going back to Adam either. However, I canverify using modern genealogical standards, my line back to medievalroyalty and that royalty back to the early dark ages (about 400-600A.D.). So it is real genealogy and real history.Given Martin's expertise in genealogy, it is highly likely that his pedigreeis as accurate as possible, but unfortunately
This is a continuation of story of my family history related trip to Hawaii for the past two weeks. Our first day was full of meeting “new” cousins and seeing historic sites related to the Dominis family and Queen Lili’uokalani. This next day we checked out of our hotel on Waikiki Beach, Oahu to board a cruise ship to see the islands of Maui, Hawaii and Kauai. This was the vacation part of the trip, so I won’t go into great detail about the cruise, except to mention a few things:
The ship “Pride
My grandmother’s grandmother was Mary (Patterson) Whitener. Family legend has it that she was at least part Cherokee. Mary was born in Ellijay, Georgia in 1869 and married William Whitener there in 1883. They lived in Murray County, Georgia in 1900. Sometime between 1904 and 1907, they moved to Oklahoma. According to my grandmother, they moved . . . → : CONTINUE READING
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Still more mysteries to uncover about this Ward Branch from Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio.
This amusing anecdote refers to my five-times great-grandmother, Elizabeth (Patton) Hemphill. It is part of a series of Biographical Sketches from Burke County, North Carolina that were written by by Col Thomas George Walton (1815-1905) and were first published in the old Morganton Herald in 1894.
“The HEMPHILLs of Silver Creek and Old Fort emigrated from the North . . . → : CONTINUE READING
I was recently in China for 10 days, visiting the main cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. What I found most interesting is how different the context of their beliefs and practices are to my own. Because I am a video biographer, some of the things that I noticed have cause me to look at my field and how much I take for granted about what I do in the context of our American culture.
One thing that I have been giving a lot of thought to is that in our American culture, it has become common f
This is a description of my family history related visit to Hawaii for the past two weeks. We arrived Honolulu in the early evening, bleary eyed and exhausted, so to me the Hawaii trip really started on Day Two. Our first night we checked into a hotel on Waikiki Beach, ate a bite for dinner, and I took a dip in the pool. Later, whilst walking along Waikiki Beach hubby took a dip in the ocean, too. We went to bed early. Little did I know that I would be so busy, I would only have time to swim two
57,000 historic records from the Perthshire area of Scotland were made available by the website Ancestry.co.uk this week.
The records date from 1566 to 1901 and cover records from school admissions and surveys of the local militia.
They include the Perthshire School Registers of Admissions and Withdrawals, which contains the names of around 75,000 pupils covering the period 1869 to 1901. Each record typically contains the name and date of birth of the child, their home address and notes on their a
