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…As White House fountains ran green for St. Patrick’s Day, the president saluted strong U.S.-Irish ties in a warm welcome for Ireland’s leaders and turned to a critical campaign backer, Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, to fill the post of Continue reading Obama Hails His Irish Roots
My friend, Arlene Eakle launched a new blog today. She’s calling it Arlene Eakle’s Tennessee Genealogy Blog. Why launch today? According to Arlene, this being March 17, she’s launching “… in observance of the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals which launched Continue reading Arlene Eakle’s New Tennessee Genealogy blog
UPDATE: I posted another blog on March 18 which deals specifically with the new digitized Michigan Death Indexes. The following was written by The Department of History, Arts and Libraries staff: ‘Seeking Michigan’ Web site employs today’s technology to deliver Continue reading The New “Seeking Michigan” Website
UPDATE: The Featured Item on sale at Family Roots Publishing Thursday., March 19, 2009 is: Greenwood’s The Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy. selling today for only Normally $29.95 – selling today for on $19.77. UPDATE: The Featured Item on sale Continue reading Books Discounted Daily at Family Roots Publishing
Nomis Publications – the folks who brought us the “Yellow Book” of Funeral Homes, has just announced a completely updated and easy-to-use website. I’ve been a Nomis fan since I got my first “Yellow Book” from them (I believe that Continue reading Fresh Resource Now Posted for Those Dealing in the Dead – Oh, Lay Me Down in Forest Lawn…
Book Review: Erin’s Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853, Volume II; by Terrance M. Punch, FRSAI Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day, I got a copy of Terrance Punch’s latest book on Irish immigration to Atlantic Canada – Continue reading Erin’s Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853 – Volume II – New From GPC
The Vanderburgh, Indiana, County Commissioners have announced that they will consider a request from the Special Collections Section of Willard Library for the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Death Record Index, dated from 1919 to 1947. The Vanderburgh County Health Department’s Vital Records Continue reading Evansville-Vanderburgh County, Indiana, Death Record Index 1919-1947 to be Placed at Willard Library
The following news release was written by Minnesota Historical Society staff: A project to restore fragile Civil War battle flags in the Minnesota Historical Society’s collection has been selected to receive funding from the Save America’s Treasures program, which is Continue reading Rare Civil War & Spanish-American War Battle Flags to Be Restored at the Minnesota Historical Society
Dee Gibson writes an excellent column on using estate records for genealogy. The column was printed in the March 2, 2009 edition of Ashville’s Citizen Times. The following teaser is meant to encourage my readers to go read the entire Continue reading Wills & Probates Can Fill in the Family Tree
The Vermont State Archives and Records Administration has now opened for business in a new location in a warehouse complex in Middlesex. Eighty-eight thousand boxes of records have been stored there anyway, so the move seems logical to me. The Continue reading Vermont State Archives and Records Administration Opens in Middlesex
My good friend, Kory Meyerink, spoke at the Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy held at Brigham Young University this last weekend. One of his lectures dealt with locating cemetery information online. Kory shared information about websites of special Continue reading Online Cemetery Information
Alerted by blogs already posted this morning (Eastman, Robbins-Midkiff), I looked at the controversy over the photographing of headstones by genealogist David Shannon at the Old Union Christian Church Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. Not only did Mr. Shannon takes pictures Continue reading Headstones Are Public Information – Otherwise There Would be a REALLY HIGH FENCE
The following items were recently added to the Family Tree Connection database: ALABAMA Alabama Technical Association 1917 Year Book – Alabama Technical Association, Year Book, Containing Lists of Officers and Members, Constitution and By-Laws, December 31, 1917, Birmingham, Ala. CONNECTICUT Continue reading New Databases at Family Tree Connection
It looks like the economy and a lack of support on the part of the current library director may cause the North Carolina room – and its collection, to find it has no home this coming fall, when the Orange Continue reading The Orange County Library in Chapel Hill, May Lose its North Carolina Room
Shakerism never appealed to me a whole lot. I’ve visited a few historic Shaker compounds over the years, and found that it must not have appealed to many other folks either – for they’re all empty (of live people, that Continue reading Ohio’s Early Shakers Had Few Descendants