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I learned about this idea from Martin Holleck at the “Slovak Yankee” blog. He posted a list of compiled genealogies that contain his closest ancestors. It is amazing how making up a list like this shows the holes in my research, or perhaps the need for me to put together some sort of a book or genealogical article for some of these families. Some old colonial families are so well documented that I stopped looking for compiled genealogies on some lineages, and that is certainly a hole in my resea

Update on the book Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy

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Aside from creating a family history so that future generations of your family will know who you are, one of the nicer gifts you can give
your family is a graphical representation of your family tree.

I recently learned about Arbor Arts, an online company that provides beautiful family trees
at a reasonable price. They have 16 tree templates to choose from that
are about 28 inches wide and can hold up to 5 generations of
information. Once you select the template you like you upload all the
inform

In this family photo, Moises was pasted in after his assasination

in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War

Sometimes modern history can be more interesting than something that happened in the 1600s. And events of the 20^th century certainly have more impact on us than the doings of our Mayflower forebears. However, recent history can be painful, and even hard to write about.

My father-in-law was born in Spain, and grew up during the Spanish Civil War. Any civil war is a horrible experience. If you watch

My recent excursion into the Forscutt family reminded me of a problem that I run into every now and then - circularity. The biggest example concerned my grandfather, Joseph Matthews, an early photographer. My research into his life had come up with some interesting happenings, but the story needed a bit more evidence. In the mid 1990s some of his work appeared in a published collection of old photographs and there was a short biography of him that confirmed my research. I was over the moon. Then

I am searching for any information related to the ELLENBERG/WALLACH family that lived in Tarnopol, Poland in the 1920's and 1930's. Abraham ELLENBERG and Sura Bella (nee WALLACH) ELLENBERG were the parents of my father, Leibisch ELLENBERG (b. 1921) who emigrated to the United States (NY) in 1939, at age 17. Abraham ELLENBERG, his wife Sura Bella and their two other teenage children (Osker and Jeanette) perished in the Holocaust. I would like to hear from any persons who may have known of this EL