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This coming Thursday will be February 12, 2009 – exactly 200 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln. It’s my guess that most people do not connect Abraham Lincoln with Berks County, Pennsylvania. However, he had ancestors who lived there. Continue reading Abraham Lincoln’s Berks County, Pennsylvania Ties
The following small databases have been recently posted at Family Tree Connection. CALIFORNIA Mizpah Lodge No. 378, 1915 Roster – Mizpah Lodge No. 378 F. and A. M., Roster and By-Laws, 246 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California. Arcadia Lodge Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
Felicia Blue, 94, an expert in African American genealogy in Philadelphia, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 22 at Stapeley in Germantown, a continuing-care retirement community. … In a 1999 Inquirer interview, Miss Blue recalled playing in the rowhouse at Continue reading Felicia Blue Passes at 94
Again, more new databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. The following databases are now available to search: ALABAMA Ensley High School 1946 Graduation – Birmingham Public Schools, Graduation Exercises of Continue reading More New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
Footnote.com sent out an update today stating the new records that can be found at their site. The following items are new or updated for January. I added a listing of cities for which Footnote earlier posted city directories. Indian Continue reading New at Footnote.com – Indian Census Rolls – City Directories – Civil War Widows’ Pensions – Arkansas Civil War Service Records
Again, more new databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. As you folks know, I highly recommend the Family Tree Connection website, as it’s one of the few places where new Continue reading More New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
The following new Databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. I highly recommend the Family Tree Connection website, as it’s one of the few places where new “small databases” are consistently Continue reading New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
Why am I blogging the close of a state hospital in a genealogy-related blog? Because thousands of our relatives were born, lived and died at this facility. The Mayview State Hospital started in the 1893, known as Marshalsea, aptly named Continue reading Mayview State Hospital in Allegheny County, PA, to Close
The Research Center for Beaver County and Board of Commissioners of Beaver County announced that Caldwell’s Illustrated, Historical Centennial Atlas of Beaver County, Pennsylvania 1876, in now available on CD-ROM. Copies are for sale at the Research Center, 1301 Seventh Continue reading Historic Beaver County, Pennsylvania Book Available on CD-ROM