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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.

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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

I’m a mixture of things

Different from each other

In lots of ways

I mustn’t complain though

Being of mixed nationalities has

Its advantages

Apart from belonging to two nations

Waving two flags

Cheering both teams

Without offending anyone

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My husband’s father was born in Sinovas, a little village in the province of Burgos, Spain. It’s an old village, with an ancient Romanesque church built in the 13^th century. The tower was restored in a major project proposed to cost almost 1 million Euros in 2009. The people here are farmers, and some families own old wine cellars on the edge of town, dug deep into the earth by hand. We have visited the village several times, and I’ve always marveled at the old church. We don’t have churches nea

A few weeks ago one of my clients, Dan Duncan, a well known businessman and philanthropist, passed away. His passing was unexpected and we were just days away from shooting new footage for a another tribute video on the Duncans. Both Dan and his wife Jan were chosen as the 2010 Tapestry Award recipients by Interfaith Ministries, a local non-profit whose mission is for all faiths to work together to create a more compassionate society.

Right after Dan passed away, Jan asked me if we could create

“El Archivo Diocesano de Burgos” is the archive for church records in the city of Burgos, Spain, located at the Archbishop’s palace next to the Burgos Cathedral. This northern city is also famous as the hometown of “El Cid”, the famous warrior also known as Francisco Diaz de Vivar, the national hero of Spain. Any church records no longer held at the individual churches are stored here. So, any very old books of baptisms, marriages, funerals, no longer being used for recording sacraments of the C