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How my Windows 7 installation went

As you know, I've been pretty excited to install Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7. It was released today. Early this morning I checked out different software store's websites to see if they had any great specials. To my surprise, many of the stores said the software was already out of stock. I quickly got in my car and headed for the stores.

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Added by Geoff Rasmussen on October 22, 2009 at 12:08pm — 3 Comments

Genealogy of Communities: Faith-based Organizations.

So maybe Grandpa didn't run off and join the circus, after all. Maybe he ran off and joined a faith-based community. In many cases family members did abandon families to join some sort of community or communal organization. There's definitely a story in there: Did he or she leave the family because the faith required it, did the family choose to stay behind, or did the family reject the person adopting a particular faith? Whatever the reason, when a family member drops off the radar,… Continue

Added by Judy Rosella Edwards on October 22, 2009 at 5:48am — No Comments

The Bird in Bodega Bay on the Head.

Last April (08) my son and my MOM and I went for a drive and to dinner in Bodega Bay. We drove around where the boats are now all parked instead of where they were when I was a youth. We went out on the Head and Al took many pictures of the bay, the ocean, the animals. We saw deer, rabbits, squirrels, and many birds. There was this one seagull that decided to be a friend, or entertain us.

The Seagull flew down and landed on the hood of the car while we were taking pictures it walked… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on October 21, 2009 at 4:57pm — No Comments

The Families of Detweiller Park – Peoria, Illinois

Parks often have a genealogical connection. Detweiller Park, in Peoria, Illinois, has the distinction of being connected to several local families. A large number of family names surface while reminiscing about this park.

In November 1927, Thomas H. Detweiller donated 661 acres to the park district. While the park carries the Detweiller name, it is in honor of Thomas’s father, Captain Henry Detweiller.

Henry Detweiller was born in Alsace Lorraine. His parents, Christian… Continue

Added by Judy Rosella Edwards on October 21, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Wednesday's Silence went to the Bird

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on October 21, 2009 at 1:16pm — 1 Comment

Welcome to the Heart of the Family

Doors are more than just doors.....Perhaps this cryptic statment would benefit from some clarification. Any one of us could look at a door and say, "that's an aluminum frame with screen to keep bugs out and let the breezes in. Or..."what a grand slab of carved wood with leaded glass inserts and gleaming hardware.

I, on the other hand, look at the doors in my family's two different homes and see something entirely different. The ones which I keep in memory lack any level of… Continue

Added by Katie Heitert Wilkinson on October 20, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

New FamilySearch roll-out -- nearing the end

According to the New.FamilySearch.org Utah and Idaho Release, News and Information site, by October 26, 2009 the Bountiful, Utah Temple District with have complete access to New FamilySearch. In addition, all but five of the Stakes in the Draper Temple District will also have access to the program. This leaves only three Salt Lake Valley Temple Districts; the Jordan River, Oquirrh Mountain and Salt Lake Temples.
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Added by James Tanner on October 20, 2009 at 8:09pm — No Comments

Looking for a male Bailey descended from Hancock, WV

Looking for Baileys.

Added by Creston F. Laager, IV on October 20, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Amazing week for genealogy!

This has been quite a week! Over the weekend my aunt visited and she lent me some photos and documents, which I scanned. She has the most amazing collection of family information. I still can't believe some of the things she has! I am so grateful that she shared it with me. I even found the name of the town in Germany that one of my great-great-grandmothers was born in. Now if I could just read it! I also borrowed my father's baby book, and my grandmother put information in there about other… Continue

Added by Beth Gatlin on October 20, 2009 at 10:33am — 2 Comments

Research success

I recently planned (and have since taken) a trip to Mildura, Victoria, which was going to include some family history research. I recently purchased the death certificate for Maria GROSE, my 3 x Great Grandmother, whose death was registered at Mildura in 1945. (This is a line for various reasons I have not done a lot of research on). I was going to visit the cemetery and visit her final resting place. Never presume. The prompt arrival of the certificate revealed she was in fact buried at… Continue

Added by Liz Pidgeon on October 20, 2009 at 1:11am — No Comments

Someday on a MONDAY, someway on a MONDAY maybe find a MADISON/JONES

Here I go again, Susan MADISON/Mattison? b 1812? 1816? 1818 on tombstone.

Where: MASS, VT, NY,

Married MASS< NY ?? family story said HOLYOKE SPRINGFIELD MASS about 1832.

Husband NOYES JONES b 1809 Petersburg(JONES HOLLOW) NY.

Lived in this area in 1840? 1850 yes 1855 yes.

Children all born NY but NOEL b 1835 in MASS. Can not find his death certificate either.

Can not locate prior to this time except

NOYES JONES wiith HIS Parents NOEL JONES b about… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on October 19, 2009 at 6:46pm — No Comments

A Genealogist’s Most Powerful Tools, Luck and Karma: Finding the love of my life and eleven more slave names

I have had many recent breakthroughs, one truly bizarre one.

I have known for a long time that my 5th great grandmother, Barbara Culp, was scalped by Indians in South Carolina in 1761. She lived to have the child she was pregnant with and two more, including my 4th great grandmother.

My husband and I have been married for 36 years. He was raised in Illinois and Wisconsin. I grew up in the Southwest. We met when we were both in our late twenties. He came to my home town as… Continue

Added by Sally Sheridan on October 19, 2009 at 6:00pm — 4 Comments

Maintaining Genealogy Pictures

Often in my classes I am asked what is the best method of storing pictures on a computer, after they have been scanned or digitally uploaded or downloaded. The questioner typically raises certain issues associated with those pictures. The issues include: A particular person may be called or thought of as John Smith in one picture, J.D. Smith in another and his full name may not as yet have been determined; a person may have several interesting pictures – one on a horse, one in a car, yet… Continue

Added by Charles Rice Bourland, Jr on October 19, 2009 at 2:25pm — 1 Comment

Another genealogy blog address

Rather than post redundant blog entries here, I will refer readers to www.genealogyhowto.com.

Added by Charles Rice Bourland, Jr on October 19, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

In memory of Samuel Virgil Grove and Lucy Ethel Raney

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=spielman&id=I175

Added by Susan Lynn Chase on October 19, 2009 at 1:15pm — No Comments

In memory of Ebenezer Bliss Watson and Vera Kistler

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=abbykistler&id=I8

Added by Susan Lynn Chase on October 19, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Anyone doing research in Northern Ireland

Where my grandmother's Braham's are from.I am probably going to get the microfilm Northern Ireland Public record office of Norther Ireland.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=suschase&id=I254

Added by Susan Lynn Chase on October 19, 2009 at 12:34pm — No Comments

polish american

Ive been searchingng for my grand father{alive or not] not sure I do know he was in WWII was divorced from my grandmother sometime after that. Ive searched all the nursing homes in NY that i could.He might have remarried.His name was P Sherbin.

Added by Jamie Marie on October 19, 2009 at 8:06am — No Comments

What is there for genealogists in Second Life?

I have been encouraging folks to join the virtual world website Second Life for genealogy lately, but maybe I haven’t been clear enough on exactly why you might want to do that, and what Second Life has to offer genealogists. As always, I’m just going to go at this based on my own experiences, and not on any particular expertise on the subject.

1. LEARN

One of the main reasons to spend time in Second… Continue

Added by tami osmer glatz on October 18, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Parade of States --- online digital genealogy resources -- Washington

The online collections of the state of Washington are digital heaven for genealogists. The scope and variety of the records would be impressive for an entire country, much less for a state. If you have or had relatives in Washington, you just hit the jackpot.
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Added by James Tanner on October 18, 2009 at 5:48pm — No Comments