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I am looking for information on my Grand-Uncle

My Grand-Uncle Alonzo Vanderhorst born around 1881 or 1884 relocated from Charleston SC to Brockton, Massachusetts sometime around 1910. The last bit of records that I found on him was World War II registration form for 1942. I also found him in the city directory for Brockton Mass in 1942. I sent money for a search for a death certificate 2 weeks ago, and have recieved no response. Anyone living in Brockton or maybe Boston can supply me with some answers to what ever happened to Alonzo…

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Added by Clyde Vanderhorst on May 14, 2010 at 8:02pm — No Comments

Who owns the genealogy companies? -- a comment

In my last post, I

talked about Ancestry.com. One of my readers pointed out that

Ancestry.com is now publicly

traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Underwriters for the deal included Morgan Stanley,

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Jefferies

& Co. and Piper Jaffray & Co. It will trade under… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 13, 2010 at 8:24am — No Comments

Are you related to the British Prime Minister?

When Gordon Brown stood down as British Prime Minister on Tuesday, HM the Queen asked David Cameron to form a new government, making him the 12th Prime Minister of her reign.

Many are now having fun working out if they are related to him, or to his wife Samantha, nee Sheffield. Both families are descended from nobility, and, indeed, from royalty.

Using my home software, Legacy, I find I am an 11th cousin, but my online genealogy…

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Added by William Douglas on May 13, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

Who owns the genealogy companies?

One of the trends of modern society is the centralization of the

production, transportation and sale of goods and services, particularly

information services, in larger and larger international corporations.

The Internet reflects the world at large in concentrating a lot of

resources under the control of a few very large organizations. Perhaps,

finding out who owns and runs these organizations and where they are

located would be an eye opener. To discover this… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 12, 2010 at 10:13pm — No Comments

Genealogy's Star among MyHeritage.com’s Top 100 Genealogy Sites

I have been having an interesting conversation with the representatives

of MyHeritage.com. As you can see from the

badge, Genealogy's Star was selected among the top

100 genealogy sites in the world. If you were to go back in my

archives, you would find that I have been… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 12, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Bushwhackers and Broken Hearts

Thanks to Mr. Sullivan for publishing the Civil War letters of his ancestor, John M. Barton.

Our families were brought together during the Civil War when both Barton and Moore served in the Co. K of the 33rd MO regiment. Barton died in May 1863, and as Sullivan states, "his letters were taken by a fellow soldier, Thomas Anderson Moore, to return to his people. But Moore was wounded and left for dead in the Confederate attack on Helena, Arkansas on 4 July 1863. In hospital in Memphis,… Continue

Added by P. Davidson-Peters on May 12, 2010 at 8:17am — No Comments

Londonderry School District Number Eight

I recently explored the Internet…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on May 11, 2010 at 4:33pm — No Comments

Doing Research in Real Time

In a presentation given by FamilySearch staff "Doing Research in Real

Time-An Exhilarating Collaboration Experience!" (F308), at the text" title="http://www.ngsgenealogy.org" rel="nofollow"">National

Genealogical Society 2010 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. ,

presented by… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 11, 2010 at 11:11am — No Comments

Remembering MOM, her birthday is Coming

Her birthday is coming the end of June.

She is the downline genes of: Scott, Hoffman/Huffman, Warden, Langdon, Brammer, Lewis, Duvall, Plants, Strosnider, Stollar, Ealy Ely, Haines, HIggins, Stout, Stout, Duvall, Rolfe, Fuller, Morrow, Tuttle,

McCune, Hayes ?, LEE, BURGESS, and WARD, FRYE and others,…

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Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on May 10, 2010 at 5:06pm — No Comments

Sarah Smith of New York city -1800's. "One in a million!"

Have been searching high and low for the last member of Thomas Smith- Mary Greene Smith (Fosbrook) family.

SARAH SMITH BORN ABOUT 1774. in New York, lived in New York City.

Her 5 siblings are: Thomas Robert Smith, Mary Greene Smith, Charlotte Clara Smith, Theophilus W. Smith and George Bridges Rodney Smith.

Have a fair amount of information on all of them, but nothing on Sarah Smith.

The brothers and sisters married into old New York families like…

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Added by Edna healey Pace on May 10, 2010 at 2:26pm — 2 Comments

Google Chrome vs. Firefox -- a genealogist's perspective

With a few stellar exceptions, most of the genealogists I know are far

more interested in genealogy than they are in technology per se. Since both

avocations take a great deal of time, it is not surprising that they

would make decisions more in favor of doing genealogy than tinkering

around with the newest technological whiz bang. Some times I think my

brain is going explode trying to keep up even partially… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 9, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

I'm who I'm

I'm who I'm

My genes hold the story of my family

In their chromosomes

Mtdna haplogroup B

For my mum

While my dad's haplogroup is R1b

The same as those

Spanish conquistadors

Crossing the Atlantic

Aeons ago

m…

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Added by Maria Camacho on May 9, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

My haplogroups

I’m a mixture of things

Different from each other

In lots of ways

I mustn’t complain though

Being of mixed nationalities has

Its advantages

Apart from belonging to two nations

Waving two…

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Added by Maria Camacho on May 9, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The ancient church of Sinovas, Burgos, Spain

My husband’s father was born in Sinovas, a little village in the province of Burgos, Spain. It’s an old village, with an ancient Romanesque church built in the 13^th century. The tower was restored in a major project proposed to cost almost 1 million Euros in 2009. The people here are farmers, and some families own old wine cellars on the edge of town, dug deep into the earth by hand. We…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on May 8, 2010 at 5:20pm — No Comments

New Resources for Genealogists

When you get buried in old documents and the criss-crossing lines of generational charts, it's sometimes difficult to keep up with the new resources for genealogical work. At least once a week, if not more frequently, I try to do searches for genealogical news. Here are some findings, you may find helpful:

Directory of Genealogical Libraries in the United States: http://www.gwest.org/gen_libs.htm

Two Free Online Genealogy Books… Continue

Added by William S Dean on May 8, 2010 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Chesapeake Bay Colonists Map

If like me you keep discovering ancestors who lived in the colonies around the Chesapeake Bay area (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware), you may run across names like Nansemond, Jamestown, Williamsburg, Anne Arundel county, Isle of Wight county, and so forth and wonder where these places were/are.

The attached map can help pinpoint where your ancestors were born, lived, and died easily. For a larger copy, contact me.…

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Added by William S Dean on May 7, 2010 at 7:27pm — No Comments

Bing vs. Google revisited for genealogists

In working with the computers at the Mesa Regional Family History Center

in Mesa, Arizona, I frequently find that the Microsoft Bing search

engine has been activated on different computers. Bing was unveiled by

Microsoft on May 28, 2009 and went online on June 3, 2009, so it is

almost one year old. In one year, Bing has risen to become the third

largest search engine on the web by query volume. … Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 7, 2010 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Graphics in Genealogy Programs -- a review

One of the attractive features of genealogy programs since Personal Ancestral File (PAF) version 5.2, is the ability to attach specific graphic files to a source. For example, attaching a digitized copy of a death certificate to the source for the death date and place. The advantage of attaching copies of the… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 5, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Memorial Tribute for Dan Duncan

A few weeks ago one of my clients, Dan Duncan, a well known businessman and philanthropist, passed away. His passing was unexpected and we were just days away from shooting new footage for a another tribute video on the Duncans. Both Dan and his wife Jan were chosen as the 2010 Tapestry Award recipients by Interfaith Ministries, a local non-profit whose mission is for all faiths to work together to create a more compassionate society.…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on May 5, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments