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The Lennox Inn, a bed and breakfast, is located at 69 Fox Street in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Lunenburg is a pretty town on the coast, famous for being the berth of the “Bluenose” schooner, found on the Canadian dime. The United Nations has designated the entire town of Lunenburg as a World Heritage Site. It is the oldest continuously operating inn in Canada, built in 1791 by John Lennox, a Scots immigrant. There is some evidence that it was built by Andreas Jung, and sold to Mr. Lennox for a tave

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Searching for perfect in genealogy programs

Actually, the perfect genealogy software program doesn't really exist,but like running after rainbows, you just never know, you might finallyfind what you are looking for. In response to a comment on one of myposts, I decided to compile a wish list of features I would like to seein my perfect genealogy program. All of the perfect features fall intothree categories; necessary, useful and imaginary. You will likelyrecognize some or all of these features in many different programs, itis just that n
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Alice Walsh

HiI am looking for any information regarding Alice M. Walsh(nee CARLSEN/SON) She was born 10/10/1913 in Rice Lake,WI to Henry and -Va(possibly Genieva, maiden name GUAY) Carlsen/son. The obit lists one brother named Clifferd of Waukesha. The obit says that she died 1/12/2001 in Waukesha,WI at the Waters Of West Moreland Manor nursing home. She was the founder of "The Birthday Club" at West Moreland and T.O.P.S group in Waukesha. Her husband Frances died in 1986. Both are burried in St. Joseph Ce
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Closing in on Kerlin's Well

In 1829 or 1830 www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojects/TAHv3/.../Ewing_Young.pdf">CaptainEwing Young led a large trapping party west from Taos, which atthe time was still part of Mexico, over the MogollonPlateau (now the Colorado Plateau) and west along the south side of theGrand Canyon to the Mojave Desert. Sources indicate that one youngermember of the party was named Kit Carson, later to befamous as an Indian fighter. The party reached the head waters of theVerde River, which is very close to Ke
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My Ancestors - Updated list

Here is a list of my ancestors:

Great Grandparents:
8. Albert Kolstee (1879-1937), farmer
9. Louise Barbara Trump (1900-1985)
10. Merle Allen Harrington (1894-1978), farmer, constuction
11. Alice Marian Washburg (1895-1991)
12. Martin Emil Widegren (1903-1990), Electrician, taxi driver, factory worker
13. Elmira Sara Harrison (1906-1994)
14. Carl August Johnson (1905-1968), factory worker
15. Rose Marie Conti (1921-2004)

Great-Great Grandparents:
16. Jan Willem "John William" te Kolstee (1830-1895), farmer

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Joel Ward was born in Richland County, Troy Township. Ohio in 1831. I found a great map of the Original Richland County in the "Past Finder" Newsletter from the Richland County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, it was in Volume 11 #2 April-June 1992 on Page 29. I located this publication at the Georgina Cole Library in Carlsbad, California. The map was originally from "Ellsworth's Original Land Records of Richland County, Ohio". On this map Troy is in R19. I found a more detailed map on
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Looking at almost any advertisement or Webpage for a genealogy program and somewhere it will mention the product's"features." Generally, these features are functions of the programs thatare highlighted by the promotional materials. For one example, if youlook at the Family Tree Maker Website,you will see a link to product features. Often, the features of aprogram are used to differentiate it from similar competing programs.Like all advertised products, product differentiation is big issue.There
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mccarren family

hi im ed mccarren from maine .my ancestor a james mccarron and his wife anna bella boyle left donegal for philledhia u.s.a.about 1860. i have a little info on his family but not nuch .am looking for more. any sugestions?
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Hebrew Orphan Asylum New York, Brooklyn?

I'm looking for anyone who was able to trace family to there and what process they went through to get the info. from that agency. My Grandmother and 3 other siblings were in and out of the Asylum several times. This is new news to us as my Grandmother never told anyone about her family or past.

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More Apple Genealogy

Apparently, I was not specific enough in my last post about AppleGenealogy. John Newmarkin his TransylvanianDutchGenealogy & Family History blog had a lot of comments. All ofhis comments, as usual, are very good and to the point. I do agree withhis conclusion about my post that Apple genealogy programs are not asfeature filled as those on the PC. I attribute this to a lack ofcompetition on the Apple platform. One example will suffice. ManyPC/Windows based programs have direct look-up capabilitie
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Why Seperate Church and State? Combine!

Before you get upset, this post is not about politics and faith, but about genealogical clues to ancestors' lives. In my research, I have found the records kept by various church groups to be of immense help in learning about my ancestors' lives and travels. Such records combined with "state" documents, incl. census reports, official land deeds, wills, and court cases are often all we have to go on -- evidence-wise -- apart from word-of-mouth family stories (which may or may not be verifiable).

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It is well known that Nutfield was founded by a group of Ulster refugees, Scots Irish Presbyterians fleeing the violence of Northern Ireland for New England. They were not welcome to settle in Boston, so in 1719 a group came to settle in New Hampshire. They called their new home “Nutfield” after the abundance of nut bearing trees in the vicinity; butternut, chestnut and walnut. I’ve had a lot of requests for the surnames included in this group, and so I decided to list the family names of subseq

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Apple for genealogy

There is a commonly inaccurate perception that there are no programs for
doing genealogy on Apple Macintosh computers. As it turns out, the list
of available programs is very limited, and there are barely enough
offerings to make the Macintosh a viable platform for those doing their
family history. But there are at least two or three programs that
compete favorably with anything available on the Windows/PC type
computers.

The now old Personal Ancestral File (PAF) program,called Family Records, was one
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My earliest attempts to use computers for genealogy began with an AppleII with a primitive program that was entirely text based and used a dotmatrix printer with fan-fold paper. I remember that I ended upre-entering my entire file a number of times either due to data crashesor to incompatible upgrades. The amount of information about eachindividual and family was minimal, but the promise of organization andconvenience was worth the effort to keep entering data. Eventually, andcoincidentally, App
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John L. Powell

Looking for info on John L. Powell. 1860 census shows Burlington City, Wife Sarah and son? Alfred. Alfred is G Grandfather. Any info on John would be appreciated.
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Economical with the truth?

Time to review what I thought I knew about Robert Forscutt and his sister Elizabeth. The family wedding (from which I have a photo showing Robert) took place in the September quarter of 1902. My great aunt, from whom I obtained the photo, was not born until 1904, so she could not have been present at the wedding. On the other hand, she would have known many of the family members who were there. Eileen's mother did not die until 1953 and her sister was alive until 1973. Eileen could have been tol

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Photos

I have added some more Hooper photos, if anyone would like to look at them. I am scanning and posting them on,so, I am getting them on slowly. Keep looking for new pictures.
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Charles Lee - the Traveling Uncle

Charles is the third child of Edwin Lee. As in the blog about Edwin he didn't show up in any Federal Census until the 1870s. He was married to Elizabeth Van Norwick and they lived in Binghamton NY. He was an Engineer but I'm not sure which railroad company he worked for while in New York.

He had two daughters born in New York - Alice and Sadie Feiam. Alice was born in January 1876 and Sadie in 1881.

My cousin and I surmised the reason he moved to Minnesota was because of the railroad. He wanted to

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Using information from New FamilySearch

A few days ago, I had a patron at the Mesa Regional Family HistoryCenter ask me about a problem she was having with New FamilySearch.She had a huge pile of printouts from her Personal Ancestral Fileprogram and was methodically going through each one and comparing theinformation to that found in New FamilySearch. She was particularlyinterested in any of the entries that appeared to be incomplete ormissing LDSOrdinance information either in her documents or in New FamilySearch. Imade an offhand su
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GenealogyWise -- all's well that ends well

Fast work and an immediate response from the staff at GenealogyWiseseems to have stemmed the tide of spam for the time being. Thanks totheir rapid response, the issue was resolved by having the blog postsreviewed before going online. I might suggest that given some time,there could be a way to automate that procedure by having a holding filewhere the titles and text could be reviewed more rapidly. It might be agood idea to require an image review or transcription before allowinganything to be po
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