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My Brick wall is my Great Grandfather William Choate - he was born in Germany in 1850 and died in Michigan 9/04/1909. He married Ceprino Hutchinson in 08/04/1887 in Carol Michigan.

I know he lived in Gagtown Village Tuscola Michigan in the 1900s and is buried at Hillside Cemetery in Elmwood Tuscola Michigan

I beleive in came to michigan through Canada - but am not sure.

This article should only be read by those who have a computer....

I believe there are only two types of computer users in the world - 1) One whose computer has crashed and 2) One whose computer will crash.

In November 2008 I joined the first group when upon my return from a nice Sunday car ride I found my computer smoking. I lost everything. Thankfully, just one month earlier I had signed up for an online backup service from which I recovered all of my data.

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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