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9 New Dollarhide Research Guides (AL – DC) Now Available at...

GenealogyBlog - 06/19/13 - 13 min ago

With this new exciting series of genealogical guides, William Dollarhide continues his long tradition of writing books that family historians find useful in their day-to-day United States research. Bills Name List guides give a state-by-state listing of what name lists are available, where to find...

Remembering Summer and Making Time to Learn "One New Thing"

The Family Curator - 06/19/13 - 1 hours 13 min ago

The First Day of Summer is Almost Here: What New Thing Are You Ready to Learn? One golden summer I conquered the Lord of the Rings; another I learned to turn a heel in hand knit socks. In our house, summer has always been a season of opportunity. My sister and I never went to summer school; instead ...

Silian 3 Stone Found in Wales Stream

GenealogyBlog - 06/19/13 - 1 hours 13 min ago

The following excerpt is from the June 18, 2013 edition of FoxNews.com: In a small Welsh village, Nikki Vousden and Roderick Bale were enjoying an evening stroll in the woods when a rock with strange carvings by the side of a stream caught their attention. Both archeologists, they knew it was no...

FamilySearch Adds More Than 200,000 Images to New United States...

GenealogyBlog - 06/19/13 - 1 hours 13 min ago

The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has recently added more than 3.4 million images from Colombia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Italy, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 207,550 images from the new United States, ...

Call to Action! Government puts Canadian 1921 Census Release on Hold

Olive Tree Genealogy Blog - 06/19/13 - 9 hours 13 min ago

Word is out that a reliable source at Library and Archives Canada has informed bloggers that the 1921 Canadian census has been digitized and is on the LAC server ready to go BUT... the Federal Government has ordered it held and not made public. According to the source, those in power believe that...

That Last Baby?

Genealogy Tip of the Day - 06/19/13 - 9 hours 13 min ago

Is that last child your great-great-grandparents had really a "surprise child" or was it a "surprise grandchild?" It may be difficult to prove, but if there were daughters in their teens in the household, it's possible that last "child" was actually a...

Wordless Wednesday: Samuel Alexander GIBSON (1859-1900)

Genealogy Sphere - 06/19/13 - 10 hours 13 min ago

I am posting family photographs from my collection for Wordless Wednesday. The photo below is of my 3rd Great-Grandfather, Samuel Alexander GIBSON. It was shared on Ancestry.com by one of my cousins.

Telling history through families

Midwestern Microhistory - 06/19/13 - 15 hours 13 min ago

Historians are using families to tell history. Some examples, of which I have read only the first: Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011). It's not news that long-range business transactions...

Mistake on Former Mayor Ed Koch's Tombstone Is Corrected

GeneaNet Genealogy Blog - 06/19/13 - 15 hours 13 min ago

Former Mayor Ed Koch can now rest in peace. Kochs granite grave marker in Trinity Church Cemetery in upper Manhattan was corrected Tuesday to reflect his birthday accurately, Kochs former press secretary George Arzt said. The tombstone had been incorrectly etched with the wrong date of birth...

Genealogist Gail Blankenau uses Homestead Act records via Fold3 and...

GenealogyBlog - 06/19/13 - 19 hours 13 min ago

The following was shared with us by Thomas MacEntee: June 18, 2013 Lincoln, Nebraska. Professional genealogist Gail Blankenau has recently solved an ongoing mystery: Who was the first woman to secure a homestead in her own right through the Homestead Act of 1862? The answer can now be revealed...

Good news for Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Missouri researchers!

Midwestern Microhistory - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

Five new or expanded Midwestern collections on FamilySearch in the last 2 days: Illinois -- Lee County Missouri -- Cole County Ohio -- Trumbull County and Cleveland Wisconsin -- 1865 state census

This Week 's Genealogical Eclectica

Genea-Musings - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

I receive blog posts and other items in Google Reader, email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and some of them have links of interest. Here are some of the "genealogical eclectica" that's recently crossed my desk - news I want you to know about:* Billion Graves has added Family Tree Connect...

Our Stories: A daughters project

MyHeritage Blog - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

People catch the genealogy bug in many ways. For MyHeritage member Chris King (in Georgia, US), it was because of the Girl Scouts. My daughter, Caitlin, was in Girl Scouts and had to do a family tree of three-to-four generations.I always wanted to know more about where my family was from, but had...

Presentation Proposals For RootsTech 2014 Now Being Accepted

GenealogyBlog - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

The following is from RootsTech via FamilySearch. Presentation proposals for RootsTech 2014 are now being accepted online at rootstech.org/proposals. Proposals will be accepted through July 8, 2013. The fourth annual RootsTech conference, hosted by FamilySearch, will be held February 6-8, 2014, at ...

Those Little Slips of Paper

Genealogy Tip of the Day - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

Do you read through the subpoenas and notices to appear that are in a packet of court case papers? Those notices are usually directed to the sheriff of the county where the person is believed to have lived at the time the case was being heard by the court.Those locations are clues as to where those ...

Tombstone Tuesday: Julia Ann WOMMACK (1862-1929)

Genealogy Sphere - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

Todays tombstone is that of my 3rd Great-Grandmother Julia Ann WOMMACK. Her grave is located in Lueders Cemeteryin Lueders, Jones, Texas, USA.

Irish Funeral Card Annie Jane Bond 1888

Olive Tree Genealogy Blog - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

This lovely Funeral Card framed in black was spotted at an antique store. I didn't see the price but if it is your ancestor, you can contact Barrie Antiques In Fond Remembrance of my dearly beloved wife Annie Jane Bond died 20th August 1888 and was interred in Maghera Cemetery, Co. Down on...

Are You Related to Paul McCartney?

GeneaNet Genealogy Blog - 06/18/13 - 1 days ago

McCartney was born on 18 June 1942, in Walton Hospital, Liverpool, England, where his mother, Mary (ne Mohin), had qualified to practise as a nurse. His father, James ("Jim") McCartney, was absent from his son's birth due to his work as a volunteer firefighter during World War II. Paul has one...