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Here’s another posting by my friend, Tom Fiske. A Face for Radio There’s a guy in the movie, Chicago, who gets to sing a song and even gets face time on the cameras because he is ordinary. The forgotten husband Continue reading A Face for Radio
The following teaser is from a UPI article that mentions the pride and interest in meeting Michelle Obama by some of her distant relatives. I don’t know that there’s really a story here, as I’ll bet that both the President Continue reading First Lady’s Distant Relatives Would Like to Meet Her
Family Roots Publishing Company is now offering Bill Dollarhide’s Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era . Following is the description of the book: Most genealogical records during the decade of the Civil War are related to the soldiers and Continue reading Dollarhide’s “Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era”
The following press release was received from Ed Johnson today. The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/funeral. The Continue reading Augusta, GA – African American Funeral Programs Posted Online
The following excerpt is from an article in the November 9, 2009 edition of Law Times by Canadian Rosalind Conway. If this interests you, be sure and read the full article. There’s a lot more to it. Interesting stuff… Nuclear Continue reading Issues with mtDNA
Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2010 will be held in Olympia, London, England from February 26-28, 2010. Tickets and information are now available online. The following is from their website: Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE, sponsored Continue reading Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2010 – Tickets Now On Sale Online
The following press release was received this morning from Ed Johnson. Although many resources available through Georgia’s Galileo program are available to Georgia residents only, these newspapers are available to all researchers by following the links below. The Digital Library Continue reading Three Historic Georgia Newspapers Go Online in Digital Format
If you do New York genealogy, you have most likely used Fred Bowman’s books in your research. Possibly best known in genealogical circles for his 3-volume Western, Central & Eastern series of “10,000 Vital Records of New York,” Fred Bowman Continue reading Genealogist Fred Q. Bowman Passes at 93
The following teaser is from an article about one person’s Ellis Island experience, and her recommendations to others. Read the full article in the November 8, 2009 edition of the Contra Costa Times. I never met Peter William Tatko. He Continue reading Following an Ancestor’s Footsteps at Ellis Island
Update – as Oxa points out in the comments, I seem to have been reading the map wrong. Just because a map shows no persons living in Utah by the name of Meitzler doesn’t necessarily mean that no Meitzler’s were Continue reading Meitzler Surname Distribution, According to publicprofiler.org
The following data has been posted at The Original Record over the last two weeks. 1675-1857 Rugby School Register This edition was published in 1933: the volume covering 1675 to 1857 contains 6480 entries, based on the original school admission Continue reading New Data at The Original Record
The following excerpts are from an article in the November 2, 2009 edition of the Rapid City Journal. The archives at Deadwood’s City Hall hold shelves filled with voting records, county inventory and appraisal ledgers, probate ledgers and other circuit Continue reading Deadwood, South Dakota’s Historic Documents
I was pleased to read that Hampton’s High Street Cemetery records are going to be computerized – but a bit put off by the attitude of trustees in demanding that the data not be published online. So, who’s trying to Continue reading Hampton, New Hampshire’s High St. Cemetery Records to be computerized – but won’t be seen online
The Bachmann Publick House, Easton’s [Pennsylvania] first courtroom and possibly the city’s oldest building, will become the property of Northampton County’s historical society, County Council decided Thursday. In a vote that followed years of negotiations, council agreed to sell the Continue reading Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society Purchases Easton’s 1753 Bachmann Publick House for $1
Build a new library and leave out the genealogy section? This is an odd one… Tulare City Manager Darrel Pyle said he and his staff are working to find a new home for the Sequoia Genealogical Society‘s records collection, which Continue reading Sequoia Genealogical Society’s Collection Needs a New Home