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GenealogyWise.com I have used for several years now. I never see anyone writing about the great advantages of using GenealogyWise.com for posting for a surname or for attending a chat.

Chats  many time have leaders that present classes. I have done this in the past myself. At one time I was very proficient with Pennsylvania Research, Maryland Research and Virginia Research.

Having done classes for almost 10 years for the Golden Gate Forum owned by George F., it helped me to…

This is my first blog post, so please bear with me. I've been digging up both my husband's and my own family history since about 1985, but blogging is new to me. I hope to use this blog to help me organize and clarify my discoveries...I tend to be a bit ADD in my research, I set a goal to focus on and inevitably find myself side-tracked, digging into an entirely different person or branch than I had intended!

Since I am currently typing this (PAINSTAKINGLY) on an on-screen keyboard,…

Facebook and Finding Kin

I have been busy with family and more family and more family. Now is that great or what.  We have had  Iowa Visit.

A daughter visited her home state of Hawaii.  Northern California came to visit family.  Dear friends from Colorado.

O how my husband and and I miss them.  Prayers for their family, their child needs prayers for survival back to normal.

I knew this person since infant.  

 Yesterday I was chatting with a…

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to our new Surnames Forum Page! This is a place to post your genealogy queries. We will be linking to Facebook and Twitter regularly, so we hope to get a lot of traffic and participation! We're very excited to bring this new service to you!

http://lowerbucksqueries.freeforums.net/

Lower Bucks Genealogists

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 23, 2016 | Utica, OH

Email Terri O’Connell for contact details, review copies, photos, and an author bio.

A GENEALOGIST’S GUIDE TO SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS RELEASED

The third in a series…

A night's drinking led to a constable's dismissal from the Bristol Constabulary in 1882  but opened the door for recruitment to the Hong Kong Police.  For the story of HK Police Sergeant Daniel Hall (later in life Licensee of the Brewers' Arms in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire)…

Exerpts from book Blessett and Wingo Kindrend of Mine

"NEW YORK, REVISITED" BY SHIRLEY BECKER

 Event:  "New York, Revisited!"

 Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016

 Location: Lemon Grove Library, 3001 School Lane in Lemon Grove) from 6 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.

 Classes are Free.

Shirley will be bringing us up to date on her latest finds and knowledge about her home state.  She has given a talk in the…

Mary Carlile Haines ancestry is documented in the article titled A Tale of Two Tradition:  The Huguenot Ancestry of a Quaker Family  printed in Plain Language, The Journal of the National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (printed about 1998) and written by Marilyn L. Winton Misch, MLS.  The article is six pages and includes her ancestors back to 1600. We had at the State Library Of Ohio an exceptional librarian who…

     Have  you heard of Mapme.com?  You may want to try it.  You can map and tell a family story all in one.

     I am working on making it work.    

     Maps are really critical keys in our research. I think I picked  up the information about it from Dick Eastman.

     But other things have happened and I did not get it posted right away.

     But it should be a lot of fun for most of you all.

http://www.ourfamilyhistories.com/hsdurbin/durbinlink.html  Also are you aware that Durbin is  a variant of D'Orbin which comes from France and married DuVall.

 …

Logsdon Family notes 

Family lore has it that William Logsdon at about age 50 in approximately 1702 selected a young Irish lass, Honora O'Flynn to be his wife. It is 

believed that Honora was kidnapped from Kerry County Ireland and brought 


aboard ship against her will to become a wife of an unmarried planter 


in Maryland. Later, a footnote in the "The Centenary of Catholicity 


in Kentucky" by the Hon. Ben, J. Webb…

THIS DATA IS TAKEN OFF OUR www.easternusresearch.com site.

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ORTH BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON CO., PENNA.

Copied 5 May 1974 by Joseph F. Floran -  the drawing is not drawn to scale. (See at end of census)Directions: Turn south from Scenery Hill, Penna. On Leg.…

What are you doing for Family History Day?  What are you doing for Family History Month in October?

Is your group looking at putting on a display or event? Will you be sharing data with others at the local Library?

Maybe your community puts on a big gala?  I am thankful that we try to recognize Family and History.

I hope you are too.  So maybe you should start planning for it now.  

  Land Records

  Have you used Land Records? Do you know who a Grantor is and a Grantee is?  Have you relatives of the past that have  Land Warrants or Land Patents?  

Bounty-Land…

A french cook was abroad a french ship on its way to Ireland. The ship landed and the cook settled in Co. Donegal, Ireland. There he met a native woman, married and had several children. They all settled around Letterkenny and had great families themselves. the supposed cook's name is Pierre Ambrose Frize.

So is the family folklore of my father's mother's father. Columb Frize came to Scotland, from Ireland, in search of work. Married my great-grandmother and started a line of Scottish…

  As some of our members pointed out, if you have the right lines and religion you do not need to leave your home to do

  your research.  Yes, for some it comes easier than others.  We early American downliners, have such a mixed  heritage we seldom have anything near that type of success.  

  We seem to have various religious backgrounds and changing as the time moves forward.  Having found some    genetic backgrounds are more true to the basic faith…

  As some of our members pointed out, if you have the right lines and religion you do not need to leave your home to do

  your research.  Yes, for some it comes easier than others.  We early American downliners, have such a mixed  heritage we seldom have anything near that type of success.  

  We seem to have various religious backgrounds and changing as the time moves forward.  Having found some    genetic backgrounds are more true to the basic faith…