Does anyone have information on Thomas Lindsey (born ca. 1750 in Cork, Ireland. Family tradition says he was son of James? Lindsey, owner of a linen mill in County Cork. I have found a lease agreement between a Thomas Lindsey a clothier of Macroom in Co. Cork dated 1756. Lessee was aged about 35 years and had a son Thomas Lindsey the Younger, aged about 4. Could my Thomas be the Thomas Lindsey Jr. mentioned in the deed? Thomas married Rebecca Harris of the parish of Canavee (just… Continue
Added by Robert John Gregory on July 6, 2010 at 3:00pm —
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Monteville Roberts owned and operated, with the help of family, the combined business establishment of a mill for grinding corn into meal and wheat into flour, a blacksmith shop, and general repair shop, all of which were vitally essential to the people. The combined enterprise, in Hamilton County, Tennessee, provided a flourishing business a home . . . → :…
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Added by Tonia Kendrick on July 6, 2010 at 11:30am —
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A story for the Fourth of July!
Fifteen or twenty years ago, when my daughter was in elementary school, we visited Philadelphia Pennsylvania. We toured the city, saw the Liberty Bell and Ben Franklin’s house, and ate some cheese steak sandwiches. Of course we didn’t miss Independence Hall, either. The tour was guided, and when we came to the room where the Continental Congress…
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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on July 3, 2010 at 9:55pm —
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I visited New Prospect Church Cemetery on Saturday. I knew that some Tuckers were buried there, because I had found headstone photos on Find-a-Grave for Churchwell Branch Tucker and his wife Rosamond. I also had found a listing last week for E. M. Ellis on the Murray County Cemeteries website; the dates were very close to . . . → : CONTINUE…
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Added by Tonia Kendrick on July 3, 2010 at 11:00am —
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I've posted here before about the free browser toolbar that I created, that is all genealogy websites, making it so much easier to do genealogy research online. (If you havent heard about it, its free, no ad/spy/malware - and every site on it is handpicked, or recommended to me). Anyway, I was adding a few sites to the
Internet Genealogy browser toolbar this morning and happened to check the stats on…
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Added by tami osmer glatz on July 2, 2010 at 3:35pm —
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With the upcoming BYU Conference on Family History & Genealogy (BYU
Campus July 27 - 30, 2010) it is likely that FamilySearch will take the
opportunity to announce or introduce changes to either
New FamilySearch or the older
FamilySearch.org Website. The
FamilySearch.org Website is the best candidate for changes. There has
been a
Beta test of a…
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Added by James Tanner on June 30, 2010 at 9:44pm —
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David S. Butler was my great-great-grandfather. I know that he was in Murray County, Georgia in the 1900s. Working backward, he died in 1938, and I have census records for 1930, (research gap: I don’t have 1920), 1910, and 1900. Each census gives Georgia as his place of birth. I have nearby Adairsville as his birthplace, . . . → : CONTINUE…
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Added by Tonia Kendrick on June 30, 2010 at 1:00pm —
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What is the most widely spoken language in the world, outside of
Chinese? Well, it depends on how and who you count as a native language
speaker. On any list of top languages, Spanish is either number two
behind Chinese or very close to the top. Most estimates put the number
of Spanish speakers in the world at around 329 million. There are
estimated to be over 20 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. alone. See
study by the Summer Institute for Linguistics and other…
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Added by James Tanner on June 28, 2010 at 5:34pm —
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Two hundred years ago my Ellis relatives were in Jackson County, Georgia, South Carolina, and possibly North Carolina.
Walter Ellis (5x great-grandfather) is my oldest Ellis relative who was alive in 1808. He and his wife, Mary (Parker) probably were in Jackson County, Georgia. In 1805, he appeared on the Jackson County land lottery list and in 1817, . . . → :…
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Added by Tonia Kendrick on June 28, 2010 at 1:00pm —
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Pine Grove Cemetery, Winnacunnet Road, Hampton, New Hampshire.
William Lane, junior. and his wife Sarah…
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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on June 28, 2010 at 12:03pm —
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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery." - Jane Austen
A heavy fog infiltrated my creative mindset ten days ago. I became discouraged and frustrated. But I was not alone, others felt it too. On Saturday, I followed a hash tag (#writers) on Twitter and found a steady stream of negativity:
- 20 warning signs your content…
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Added by Jennifer Swan on June 28, 2010 at 11:43am —
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How can I delete a group that I started?
Thank you.
Doris
Added by Doris Wheeler on June 28, 2010 at 10:19am —
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Added by Anne Kathryn on June 27, 2010 at 5:52pm —
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Years ago there was a Bazooka Joe comic where Mort was looking around on
the ground under a street light. Bazooka Joe comes up and asks him what
he is looking for. Mort replies that he lost a quarter. "Where did you
lose it?" Over there! "Why are you looking under the light pole? Because
that is where the light is! This last week at the Mesa Regional Family
History Center I ran into this same problem, looking where the light is.
I was helping one of the patrons…
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Added by James Tanner on June 27, 2010 at 8:48am —
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As I was driving past Mount Sumach Cemetery this weekend, I happened to notice a headstone with my last name. I almost didn’t stop, because I could tell from the road that it was a relatively modern stone. However, it was Saturday afternoon and I had time, so I turned around. The stone in question turned . . . → : CONTINUE…
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Added by Tonia Kendrick on June 26, 2010 at 1:00pm —
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I’ve been toying with the idea of a Footnote subscription for some time and have even taken advantage of their seven-day free trial a few times. I finally decided to go for it. The item I found this morning makes it all worthwhile.
I’ve been researching my ancestor, Walter Ellis, Revolutionary War Veteran, in preparation for a . . . → :…
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Added by Tonia Kendrick on June 24, 2010 at 12:30pm —
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Hello all lists, trying to find how i go about looking for deaths details on my Family in Germany (Mulheim an der Ruhr) Lebensorte,Family name is Giesen (giese) ,Many Thanks Albertus.
Added by Albertus Lang on June 23, 2010 at 11:35pm —
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Death certificates can contain very interesting causes of death, or the “usual” causes of death such as heart disease and cancer. I discovered two certificates for my husband’s
Italian side that caused quite a stir in the family when I revealed how
these men died.
First we have Fortunato Fratto. Fortunato was born about 1854 in Taverna, Italy. He immigrated to the United States 21 November 1890 and set his…
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Added by Jennifer Holik-Urban on June 23, 2010 at 9:47am —
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