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There’s an interesting blog titled “Family skeletons detrimental to healing” posted on the ScienceBlog website that set me to thinking… Genealogists seem to love to drag out the family skeletons. Good old adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, and even a murder Continue reading Shaking Out the Family Skeletons Might Save Your Life
John Smithers had spent more than six decades looking for clues about the father who abandoned the family when he was just a baby. The barrel-chested, brash-talking Smithers had something he wanted to give his old man: a fist in Continue reading DNA Proves That Two Persons on Opposite Sides of the World Are Siblings
Michael Mansfield, a product manager at FamilySearch and a database expert, spoke at the BYU Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy on March 14. He listed a number of things that the researcher should do do locate your ancestor Continue reading Nine Things You Can Do to Find Your Ancestor Within Databases
The following news release was written by the Lawlor Media Group: NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ – Lively stories told by descendants of an American Jewish financial dynasty, buttressed by superb genealogical detective work dating back to the late 1600s, Continue reading An American Experience, Adeline Moses Loeb and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors
The following News Release was written by DCL staff: FRESH MEADOWS, N.Y., March 24 /PRNewswire/ – Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL), providing conversion services and software to publishers, industry, government, libraries and documentation developers, has announced the completion of several Continue reading Data Conversion Projects Completed for Accessible Archives
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection recently: CALIFORNIA California Pioneer Women Association 1926 Roster – The Association of Pioneer Women of California, Officers and Members, Honorary and Deceased Members, Past Presidents, Charter Members. Printed June Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon has some good indexes for those of us with Oregon roots. Each index is preceeded by an explanatory paragraph or two about the resource. If a copy service for the original document is available, fees Continue reading Fourteen Important Oregon Indexes Found at the GFO Website
Thousands of Post Offices have come and gone. Many of these offices operated where our ancestors are recorded as having lived. Today we might look at a map and find that no such place exists. A quick way to ascertain Continue reading A Listing of Over 200,000 United States Post Offices Found Online
Digital records from the Pennsylvania State Archives ARIAS (Archives Records Information Access System) have been available online at the Archives website for some time now. The databases are as as listed and linked below. Go to: www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp Pennsylvania National Guard Continue reading ARIAS: Pennsylvania State Archives Records Online
Over the last several days, I’ve been going back and looking at websites with digitized books that I use quite often, but haven’t written about for some time. I reviewed the books at HeritageQuest Online, and yesterday I brought you Continue reading Search Over 30,000 Genealogy & Local History Titles at the Family History Archives
More than 60 years after he and his brother returned from fighting in the Philippines, the thoughts of New York Mills resident Charles Stevens once again have turned to the South Pacific. Stevens, 96, learned earlier this month that dog Continue reading WWII Dog Tags Found on a Phillipines Beach
I posted an item about the WWI soldiers buried at Fromelles, France just over a month ago. The soldiers are back in the news. The following is an excerpt from an article in the March 24, 2009 edition of the Continue reading Identifying the WWI Soldiers at Fromelles, France, isn’t an Easy Task
Have you searched the Wisconsin Pre-1907 Vital Records Index lately? The online index covers the pre-1907 vital records as well as about 150,000 other records, including biographical sketches, obituaries, and newspaper articles published before 2000. You may now search on Continue reading Using the Wisconsin Pre-1907 Vital Records Index
A Jewish family whose impressive history can be traced back more than 450 years celebrated the birth of its 50,000th member in Jerusalem on Monday at a special family event. The Rivlin family consists of 22 documented generations and has Continue reading 50,000 Members in the Rivlin Tribe.
Do you have an inventor in the family? Take a look at the MIND Database of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The Modern INventors Documentation (MIND) database pulls together information from hundreds of archives across Continue reading Find Your Ancestor in the MIND Database