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The following excerpt is from an article posted August 8, 2016 at the news.fiu.edu website. Just a day after he graduated from the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs with a Ph.D. in history, Adam Silvia MA Continue reading An Online History of Haiti
The following teaser is from an article posted August 8, 2016 at the FoxNews website. Archaeologists digging at the Alamo may be close to locating the site of the historic compound’s main gate. Experts discovered stones beneath San Antonio’s Alamo Continue reading Alamo Archaeologists May Have Found the Main Gate to the Old Mission
In Pt. 1, I wrote about how the Categories are laid out at the Family Roots Publishing website. In Pt. 2, I described what the categories “Africa” through “Computer” contain. In this post, I would like to describe the categories Continue reading How To Use the FamilyRootsPublishing.com Web Store – Pt. 3
The following databases have been added or updated at FamilySearch.org from June 28, 2016 to August 8, 2016 Location – Number of Indexed Records – Date Posted or Updated Australia, Tasmania, Migrant Files, 1945-1968 – Browse Images – 20 Jul Continue reading FamilySearch Databases Added or Updated From June 28 through August 8, 2016
The following teaser is from an article posted August 5, 2016 at the wiscnews.com website. The Juneau County Historical Society will soon have a better way to archive its valuable artifacts. Located at the Boorman House in Mauston, the county Continue reading Juneau County (Wisconsin) Historical Society Receives Grant
The following teaser is from an article posted August 6, 2016 at jamaicans.com. Gaia Goffe of New York, her sister Tao Leigh Goffe, and her mother Judith Hugh-Goffe embarked on a journey to China looking for a greater understanding of Continue reading Chinese-Jamaican Traces the Family to Hong Kong.
The following teaser is from the August 8, 2016 edition of the Houston Herald. More than 83,000 pages of past issues of the Houston Herald are available on the publication’s website this week, marking the completion of a project that Continue reading The Houston Herald is Digitized and Now Available Online for 1881-2016
The following excerpt is from an article posted August 4, 2016 at the royalgazette.com website. It details information about Samuel Toddings, who was a prominent Bermuda journalist with slave ancestry. The website where the information is now posted also has Continue reading Bermuda Biographies
Amazing! Every now and then something I can get really excited about gets posted. And today I am excited! It just happens that ResearchBuzz had an item posted that mentioned that the diaries of the early Rochester, New York cyclist, Continue reading Rochester’s May Bragdon Diaries Digitized and Posted Online
The following excerpt is from an article posted August 5, 2016 at the Chicago Tribune website. Tucked in the back left corner of the Glenview [Illinois] Public Library, the Genealogy and Local History room is staffed by seven volunteers who Continue reading Residents Volunteer in the Glenview, Illinois, Public Library Genealogy & Local History Room
The following teaser is from an article posted August 5, 2016 at the fox7austin.com website. Two sisters from Texas recently found out that they have a long lost sister in England. The three were recently reunited with help from British Continue reading Texas Sisters Find Long-lost Sister in England
The following teaser is from a good article posted August 8, 2016 at the timesofisrael website. Discovering a Jewish past of which she was wholly unaware, Danette Devlin of Little Rock, Arkansas, has also found family. Devlin was raised without Continue reading Little Rock Woman Finds Her Jewish Roots
The following was received from FGS: FGS Marshals Volunteers to Help National Historic Park Tell the Stories of Over 130,000 U.S.-Mexican War Soldiers August 8, 2016 – Austin, TX. and Brownsville, TX. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the Continue reading FGS & the NPS Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Partner for 130k U.S.-Mexican War Database
The following teaser is from an article posted July 28, 2016 at the tapinto.net website. NEW JERSEY – Adoptees may apply for their birth certificates and potentially learn more about their family’s demographic, medical and social/cultural histories, as part of Continue reading New Jersey Adoptees May Apply for Birth Certificates as Part of New Adoption Law
The following teaser is from an interesting article posted August 1 , 2016 at http://alittlebitofstone.com: Stories of [British] conscientious objectors and how bakers, butchers and farmworkers fought conscription are amongst a rare collection of Military Appeal Tribunal records being published Continue reading Records of WWI British Conscientious Objectors Come to Light