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Because GenealogyWise is a social network that encourages member participation we do have occasional problems with people who join GenealogyWise for the sole purpose to spam members.

Please know that as soon as we see this activity we terminate the membership of the spammer immediately. Keeping spammers of off GenealogyWise is important to me and I take it very seriously.

Because of the recent use of the Blog posts as a means to spam the membership we are going to start, as of today, putting a del
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Spam blog posts take over GenealogyWise

GenealogyWise is a reallydynamic and useful social networking site for genealogists.GenealogyWise is part of FamilyLink which if you keep tracing backthrough links, is basically Paul Allen and his staff who also runWorldVitalRecords and a lot more. Many of the members post all or partof their own blogs on the GenealogyWise blog posts. Lately, the blogposts coming through Google Reader have been hijacked by spam drugsellers. My Google Reader currently has six posts which appear to befrom "Everyon
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We've submitted bylaws for approval, and now the proposed chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists in Second Life (APG-SL) will be having our third meeting, tonight, Thursday, April 7, at 5:30 pm Second Life time (which is Pacific Time). In keeping with the goals of the organization, we will be having a presentation by a very well-known speaker, on Revolutionary War Research. Members and non-members are invited to attend this presentation. The APG in SL is open to any member of AP
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On Wednesday 28 October 2009, the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance announced the state’s annual “Seven to Save” campaign and the First Parish Church in East Derry earned a spot on the list. The First Parish congregation has been in Derry since the original Scots Irish settlers held a religious meeting of thanksgiving under a tree in 1719. The current church building itself was built in 1769 and still serves an active congregation and a large part in the Derry community activities.

Also named

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A recent blogger here mentioned something about research findings that make your hair stand on end. I'm wondering how many people have a particular affinity for something, especially historically-speaking, and then later discover in genealogical research that their ancestor was involved in what you show an affinity for. I don't mean talent, like in music or art or something.

Here's an example. Since I was kid, I always liked and felt strongly about the events in the book and movies "The Last of t
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What I have learned from genealogy blogs

I guess the first thing I have learned is that there are a lot moreblogs than I have time to read. I keep finding new ones all the time andget more and more amazed at the tremendous variety of genealogicalexperiences. I have learned that blogging is takes the place of the oldhome town newspaper on an international scale. The posts give youinsight into people's lives all over the world. Today's report on GoogleAnalytics shows my posts being read in 39 countries. There are peoplespending significa
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Genealogy on a Mac?

It has now been a number of months since I junked my PC and went back toworking almost exclusively on an Apple Macintosh iMac. I saythat my work is almost exclusive because I still own a PC Laptop fromHP. I use the laptop to run my scanning station. I mentioned from timeto time that I am running a program called Parallels Desktop. I have worked onliterally hundreds of computers and owned dozens and I can say withoutreservation that the 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 is the absolutely fastestand best com
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Well, we all know co-incidences happen, but sheesh, just lately genealogically speaking they're jumping out at me. For instance.

Have connected with a Jewish Lady for my Isaacs research and somehow we get talking about "The Camps" and I say my dad (not Jewish) was in Somme Kasserne as a prisoner and bang, she writes back and says "oh my husband went through there!" dum dum dum dum (read Jaws music)

Also years ago a woman found an old photo with a name and town on the back, she rang the local histo
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I first met the Forscutt family more than forty years ago when I began my interest in family history. My grandmother knew that her mother's maiden name was Forscutt. She thought her grandmother was named Elizabeth, but couldn't remember her grandfather's name. She knew her mother's date of birth, so I obtained her birth certificate and discovered she was illegitimate. This was not something a teenage boy wished to discuss with his Victorian grandmother, so the certificate was quietly placed in a

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With a lot of help from Luc Comeau at Millenia with Legacy Family Tree, Ifinally got the program up and running with New FamilySearch. Iwill work on RootsMagicnext, but I think it is the same problem. Basic to the problem is thefact that I am working on an iMac running a program called ParallelsDesktop. The iMacis a fabulously fast machine and the only reason I can even begin tokeep up with all my photos and scans, but that is another story.Parallels Desk Top runs really well except for the fact
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New FamilySearch(NFS)has just completed a major change in its Application ProgrammingInterface or API.Because of this change all of the programs that connect to NFS wererequired to upgrade to adapt to the changes. All of the existing lineagelinked database programs, Ancestral Quest, RootsMagic andLegacy Family Tree have very recently issued updates to their programs. Idownloaded each of the updates and had the following experiences, sofar, with each of the programs:
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Once or twice a month I teach a class on Google for Genealogy. At thebeginning of each section, I always ask the class members about theirprevious experience with various Google features including Google Maps,Google Books, Google News, Blogs and many other apps and features. Inmany cases, my questions draw a complete blank. No one in the class hasever tried or even knew about the feature or function. This isinteresting because almost every person in every class uses Google's searchfunction. Goog
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Genealogy e-Book publishing

You have your genealogy book already to publish and then start findingout the cost of self-publishing a bound book. It is sort-of like thesticker shock of trying to buy a new car. Now all that is in the past.With the advent of the new e-readers like the AmazonKindle, Apple iPad andothers, e-publishing is becoming reality for every author.
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The Batchelder name is liberally sprinkled over New Hampshire. There are eight Batchelder/Bacheller families listed in the white pages for the Londonderry area. There are Batchelder Roads in towns from Hampton, to Strafford, to Raymond, to Nashua. The first Batchelder immigrant to the New World was the Reverend Stephen Batchelder, born in 1561, who was a founder of Hampton, New Hampshire.


There is a huge red genealogy book labeled “Batchelder Batcheller” available on the shelves of many libraries

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Is anyone researching the Huguenots that removed to Portarlington, Ireland. Some of those Portarlington Huguenots moved in 1732 to Williamsburg, South Carolina, America. Does anyone know if there is a list of those people that left?

A Richard Cassel, (AKA Richard Castle ) a prominent architect in Dublin, Ireland. Stated that his family were French Huguenots that escaped France during the reformation and that he was born in Cassel ( or Kassel ) Germany. Also says that when he moved from London, En

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After finding a picture, a video and a few other references to Kerlin's Well,we drove north out of Phoenix by way of Prescott to the small communityof Ashforkwhich is west of Flagstaff on I40. The only directions we had to therock where my great-grandfather carved his name in 1877 was the briefdescription of "9 miles north of Seligman."

We drove the few mileswest from Ashforkto Seligmanand quickly found the public library. This small library was housed in adouble wide mobile home. The library was
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The March 2010 update of New FamilySearch includes several changes tothe program in addition to the mandatory use of the LDS Account andUser Profile. See previous post. These new changes are outlined in the PDF document,"What's New in the New FamilySearch Web Site." The changesoutlined include the following:
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I have done pretty extensive research in the past 6 months and found out quite a bit in regards to my maternal grandfather's family. Neal Hobbs is my great-great grandfather. He had a VERY interesting relationship with his wife, Ellen's, sisters. He had MANY children by more than one of his Ellen's sisters, my great-grandmother being one of the sisters, Delia. So needless to say its been an interesting background to trace. Incidentally because of his infamy, he is the one that the family has the
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As of today, 29 March 2010, you must register for the new LDS Account togain access to New FamilySearch. Quoting from the New FamilySearch startup page,
We are changing the sign-in system so that one user name and passwordworks for participating FamilySearch Web sites. From now on, pleaseuse your LDSAccount for new.familySearch.org. If you don't have an LDS Account,enter your new.familysearch.org user name and password, and we'll helpyou upgrade.

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