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I sometimes post some of the stories from my blog on the website GenealogyWise.com. I had almost stopped doing this when I received a message through GenealogyWise.com about the Essie Mott memoirs. This resulted in a lot of fun blogging connections and many blog posts, so I continue to post a few stories on GenealogyWise, just to see what will happen next.

I noticed today that a story I had posted on GenealogyWise on 16 October 2009 was the most popular blog post. This was the post “Princess Ka’i

It is very difficult to rank the size of genealogy companies because there is no real category in the business world for genealogy. In a realsense, the genealogy companies are all information and servicecompanies. They either sell a service, such as printing charts, orinformation, like databases of source documents and indexes. AlthoughAncestry.com is clearly the leader, second place is a little moreproblematical since Ancestry.com has several large sub-brand names suchas genealogy.com, their so

Looking for any information about Benjamin Hooton, a Quaker, that was living in Philadelphia in the 1700s somehow ended up in Fredricksburg VA for a brief time. Trying to find info on his life in Philly. Any help would be appreciated. He was the son in law to John Head.

Thanks,

Sherry

My Grand-Uncle Alonzo Vanderhorst born around 1881 or 1884 relocated from Charleston SC to Brockton, Massachusetts sometime around 1910. The last bit of records that I found on him was World War II registration form for 1942. I also found him in the city directory for Brockton Mass in 1942. I sent money for a search for a death certificate 2 weeks ago, and have recieved no response. Anyone living in Brockton or maybe Boston can supply me with some answers to what ever happened to Alonzo Vanderho

I recently explored the Internet Archive website at www.archive.org This website provides free books, moving images (from film and video), audio and text images. From their home page “The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.” It is full of scanned images and primary source documents that are a

Her birthday is coming the end of June.

She is the downline genes of: Scott, Hoffman/Huffman, Warden, Langdon, Brammer, Lewis, Duvall, Plants, Strosnider, Stollar, Ealy Ely, Haines, HIggins, Stout, Stout, Duvall, Rolfe, Fuller, Morrow, Tuttle,

McCune, Hayes ?, LEE, BURGESS, and WARD, FRYE and others,

Tuttle back to England as is HIGGINS, Stroschnieder ie Strosnider back to Germany, Hoffman/Huffman/ Germanic, with Indian heritage in more than one line.

Next post I will give the address for you to sen

Have been searching high and low for the last member of Thomas Smith- Mary Greene Smith (Fosbrook) family.

SARAH SMITH BORN ABOUT 1774. in New York, lived in New York City.

Her 5 siblings are: Thomas Robert Smith, Mary Greene Smith, Charlotte Clara Smith, Theophilus W. Smith and George Bridges Rodney Smith.

Have a fair amount of information on all of them, but nothing on Sarah Smith.

The brothers and sisters married into old New York families like Holly, Mott, Vermilyea, Rathbone and Rose.

Her sister