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Genealogy glossary – fra ENGELSK til  NORSK (the most commonly used words)

Add = Legg til nye opplysninger, tilføy

Affiliation = Tilhørighet

Alternate name = «Også kjent som ... »

Agreement = Avtale

Album = Bildealbum

Ancestors = Forfedre

Assistance =…

This is a picture of Henry Huffman later HOFFMAN and wife Elizabeth HIGGINS.

You can read about the HIGGINS line on this blog…

Groundbreaking multilingual mobile app will power international crowdsourcing initiative…

I just want to let you know that not all the Sheppards emigrated. Many of us remained. In fact, we're having a Sheppard family gathering this weekend in Tipperary, just a few short miles from CastleSheppard. CastleSheppard was the home of William Sheppard, the younger brother of Thomas Sheppard.

This weekend gathering coincides with the 100th anniversary of my great-grandfather James Sheppard. We are all there to unveil a memorial to him. Incidentally, my uncle and father are…

 With  high hopes Illinois is being asked to pass this bill that is posted here on Leland Meitzler's blog page.

Illinois Access to Cemeteries Act Filed With the Illinois General Assembly

If it passes one will have access to cemeteries previously some times denied.

For years I have been blaming The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose 'Ancestry' family trees are - or were - notoriously difficult to amend, and hence never were.

This year, Millennia Corporation will be celebrating their 29th year in business, and the 17th year since they first released their Legacy Family Tree genealogy software.

Legacy is a feature-rich package that lets you chart family trees, record details about individuals, and otherwise track your family…

The current availability of online databases and the mass photocopying of searchable historical documents have led to a renewed interest in genealogy, and it is now much easier to fill in the basic outline of our family trees.

Many are quickly fascinated by the process of slowly leapfrogging back one generation at a time to learn the names of the ancestors who are responsible for our existences today, and the continuity with the past that we establish seems to give our lives an…

It is in Salt Lake City (Utah), from the 6 to 8 of February that will host the exhibition of genealogy and technology.

Sophie Boudarel, from Gazette ancestors and Guillaume de Morant (GénéInfos)…

PRESS RELEASE

January 29, 2014; Utica, OH: 

2013 has been a whirlwind of excitement for The In-Depth Genealogist. We collaborated with Conference Keeper on #genchat, and it was a great success. We have listened to the participants that were requesting we host more #genchats.  You asked, we are…

Additional 1 Billion Global Records From 67 Countries to be Available on Ancestry.com

PROVO, Utah, Jan. 21, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ancestry.com announced today an extension of their collaborative efforts with FamilySearch International that will make more than 1 billion additional records from 67 countries…

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of watching La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), an epic Italian film in the style of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, but with more cinematic greatness achieved by the advances in technology since the 1960s as well as a more existential examination of life. It was truly captivating and I am planning on a second viewing next week as the MFAH is bringing it back for an…

Hi,

My name is Jean-François Dagenais, genealogy fascinates me and I try to trace the exploits of my ancestor Pierre Dagenais, who trod the soil of Ville-Marie (New France) to 1653.

I invite you to find out by reading his story.…

Please read and pass this on to all you can.  

Papers books and data is headed to demise if we do not join together and act. I have contacted: NGS, NEHGS, Newspapers.com, Genealogy Bank.  NGS is going to follow up.  Of course it is a weekend.

I asked for Permission it was granted please read data below.

Susi - certainly post wherever you can.  My intention, sending to the lists I subscribe to, was to reach many people who might be…

Hi Hazel,  I did find the newspaper article regarding Mrs. Susan Bostick and Mrs William Bostick. It is not possible for this William to be the twin brother of Joel but a possible link to consider in our future research. 

I have been reading about the concept of “Happiness Jars.” In Elizabeth Gilbert’s blockbuster memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” she started a project where she would write down things that have made her happy each day on little slips of paper and put them in this large glass jar. By doing so every day, eventually her jar would overflow with happiness.

I am proposing something similar but let’s call it a Memory Jar or more aptly, the Memoir Jar. Starting tomorrow, January 1st 2014, make a…

Looking for info about Martinus Adrianus Schenk b 18-11 1880

came to USA from Rotterdam to NewYork on board S.S Nieuw Amsterdam 1948 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-33866-23019-41?cc=1923888&wc=M94K-PK8:355471088

 The New Year is here, are you ready?  Have you set at least one goal to accomplish regarding your genealogy?

 Goal setting is more important than resolutions.  It gives you purpose and direction. It helps to put you back on track when we fall off.  O we do a lot of that falling off.  At least I do.  When researching and another family name pops up within the confines of the search I am already doing it is hard to not, stop and gather in the data.  Then because you have found…

PhotoTree.com Announces:  Archive Photography

How to photograph oversize photos, curled documents, and heirloom treasures.

January 2, 2014, Carlsbad, CA.  Phototree.com™, the leader in delivering vintage…