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America was not the only land to be heavily colonized by England. Australia is another country of predominately English colonization. One big difference between the two countries, however, is the number of colonist who chose to emigrate compared with those Continue reading Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia
The following article is by my friend, William Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Genealogy Rule No. 22: It is a known fact that St. Peter checks all of your Family Group Sheets for accuracy before you are allowed to enter the Pearly Gates. Continue reading Family Group Sheet Standards
“County court records relating to roads and transportation are collectively know as “road orders.” The Virginia Transportation Research Council’s published volumes of road orders and related materials contain not only information on early roads, but also the names of inhabitants Continue reading A Brief History of Roads in Virginia 1607-1840
A FamilySearch blog provides the details. Here is an excerpt: Mormon Migration Index Give you More Than Ever Before If you have Mormon ancestors who crossed the ocean to join the Saints in America, you may have heard of the Continue reading Mormon Migration Index Website Has Been Revised
Hot off the presses, Tracing Your European Roots is W. Daniel Quillen’s fifth volume in his Essentials of Genealogy series. The Essentials series covers immigration and naturalization records, census and military records, family records, and more. European Roots serves as Continue reading Tracing Your European Roots
The folloing databases have been added this week the TheOriginalRecord.com: 1664 – Leicester Hearth Tax The Michaelmas 1664 hearth tax returns for the city of Leicester, transcribed by Henry Hartopp mainly from the original collectors’ books in the Public Record Continue reading New at The Original Record
Many years have passed since North America has seen any of its national boundaries change. Most of the World has proven less stable of recent decades. Even Europe has seen its share of change. World history is wroth with the Continue reading Alsace-Lorraine: Atlantic Bridge to Germany
It’s time to start planning for a trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City the first week of December! This is an invitation to join us on the 28th annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour. This year it Continue reading Join Us on the 2012 Salt Lake Christmas Tour
Here is an excerpt from the article in the Press Telegraph out of Long Beach, CA: Long Beach’s buried cemetery By Tim Grobaty, Columnist A BURIED BURIAL PLACE: Jennie Aguillar was born in Mexico in 1890. She died 30 years Continue reading A Cemetery Buried Within a Cemetery
Did you that in just two days, July 16 and 17, 1942, over 13,000 French Jews were rounded up by police and sent to Auschwitz. For the first time, police records of these events have been released. Read more about Continue reading French Holocaust Records Released
I’ve had a membership to WorldVitalRecords.com since the beginning of that website. I went to work for Everton’s in 2006, and they had a relationship with World Vital Records, allowing WVR to scan books and magazines in the Everton collection Continue reading Using the MyHeritage Family Trees Now Found on the World Vital Records Site
Each month the Family History Library adds new books to its collection. From patent rolls to individually produced family histories, these books are collected and cataloged. Many represent recent research but may provided information dating back centuries. To see what Continue reading New Books at the Family History Library
Learning to read and use U.S. Federal Census Records is probably the most critical skill almost a genealogists can learn for research the past 230 years. Each census attempts to identify every person tied to a family and a residence. Continue reading Genealogy at a Glance: U.S. Federal Census Records
If I were to summarize what I remember learning about American History in public school, it would go something like this: In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue Then the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock People came from Europe, mostly Continue reading History of Louisianna: From Its First Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time [1842]
Really disappointing news to share this week……… and I’d like to know if any of YOU have had a parallel experience. My hubby’s father, Charles Alexander Phillips, was born in 1906 in Toledo, Ohio and he was consistent in saying Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour……… Week’s Peek