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Settling an Old Argument (Part 4)

The letter in my last post indicated that my grandma had moved back in with her dad at the age of 18 in June of 1927. On October 10 of that year she was married to the son of a Baptist Preacher who lived next door to her foster parents. His name was Richard Lemmy Meherg. I was able to find them in Fayette County, Alabama in the 1930 US Census. Finding anything in the census is a lot of work. There are usually indexes, but they often have spelling mistakes due to the poor quality of the… Continue

Added by Michael Talley on August 5, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Great Website for German/Russian Immigrant Ancestors

I came across another really interesting website today, called Odessa (http://www.odessa3.org). The Odessa website is an absolute goldmine of information about Germans who emigrated to Russia (and to other places after that) in the 1800s, and their descendants. There are digitized books and transcribed and indexed microfilm from the Family History Library for dozens of different areas and topics.

One of the main… Continue

Added by tami osmer glatz on August 4, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

My great grandmother

I have run up against a stone wall in my search for my great grandmother Tipton. The only name I know is "Nettie", she married my great grandfather Edmond Pinkney Harrelson about 1889 in Alabama or Florida. She is on the 1890 Florida census and the 1900, but she died shortly after the census was conducted. My grandmother, Fannie Lou Harrelson Hart, was born in 1892 and was 8 years old when her mother died. Great Grandpa Harrelson soon remarried Luretha Harrelson Robbins Harrelson and they had a… Continue

Added by Marion Johnson on August 4, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

One in 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan

One in 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan

Aug 12, 2007 - by Chris V. Thangham

An international team of geneticists have found an astonishing statistic; one in every 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan. These men have the same male Y chromosome as the great…

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Added by Johnny on August 4, 2009 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Have you seen Aunt Mary

This is about all the missing ancestor's we seem to accumulate.
My Aunt Mary , my mothers older sister, has gone missing. She was borne Mary Adelaide Rowe in late1910
in Kent Co. Maryland . Her Parents were Daniel Russell Downey And Julia Rowe. Julia Died in 1915 and aunt Mary
was taken to England to live with family .

Added by Russell Ivens Parsons on August 4, 2009 at 4:29pm — 2 Comments

And so we begin

What will follow will be a series of articles that I've been writing on my main web page, The Halberium. I decided to reproduce them here so as to get a wider audience (I hope). Some will just be my rantings, some will be family discussion. Hopefully I can find some connections out there!

Added by Dixie Jack Halber on August 4, 2009 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Setting the Record Straight: "Matohe – A Labour of Love" and Jack genealogy

A book was published in 1988 chronicling the genealogy of several Bath County Virginia families including the Jack line. This was the first and thus far only record the Bath county Jacks published and is used by Jack researchers around the country and the trees from it are published on various genealogy websites for researchers. Unfortunately, with all apologies to Cathy Smoot Carson, it is also wrong.

Matohe - A Labour of Love traces the Bath County Jacks back to a German… Continue

Added by Dixie Jack Halber on August 4, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

FGS Conference Hotel Rooms -- Last Chance

Jan Davenport, FGS/AGS Conference Chair, just got word from the Peabody Hotel that there are only a few rooms left at the FGS Conference rate and they will be gone after August 10th at that price. She won't be able to add to the room block again at the FGS price as another group will be coming to the hotel.

Bottom line -- reserve before August 10th to get a room at the FGS price. After that the price will be much higher.

The Peabody is the hotel connected to the Statehouse… Continue

Added by Paula Stuart-Warren on August 4, 2009 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Three Large Legacy Family Tree Events - August/September 2009

We've just returned from one of the most successful genealogy conferences ever in Provo, Utah where we gave away numerous prizes including an Acer Netbook computer. Congrats to our netbook winner - Christine Baird!

The highlight of the conference was our Thursday evening class where, for the first time ever, we demonstrated our highly-anticipated FamilySearch integration software. There were so many of you attending the class (over 300) that we had to move everyone to the big… Continue

Added by Geoff Rasmussen on August 4, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Genealogy Wise Chats!

I just attended my first chat session at Genealogy Wise. If you weren't there, you missed a great chat. The chat started at 8:00 pm MST and was called GENTREK-Genealogy Research & Resource Notebooks, Part 1. The chat was presented by Jayne McCormick and Dae Powell. The Genealogy Wise chatroom is available for chats 24 hours a day. GenWise Chats is a group on GW which has begun scheduled chats to educate members on different topics. This is a terrific resource for members and I encourage all… Continue

Added by Jennifer Eklund, PLCGS on August 3, 2009 at 9:10pm — 1 Comment

The Symbolism of Passing Something from One Generation to Another

If any of you are into collecting watches, you know that watch prices can run from a few dollars for a drugstore watch that serves merely as a timekeeper to hundreds of thousands for jewel and precious metal combinations valued for their craftsmanship and aesthetic appeal. While purchasing and collecting watches is a hobby for many people, the gifting of a watch has come to hold a great deal of symbolism depending upon the occasion and the relationship between the giver and… Continue

Added by Stefani Twyford on August 3, 2009 at 12:43pm — 1 Comment

Best of the Genea-Blogs - July 26 - August 1, 2009

My weekly summary of what I consider the best of the Genealogy blogs is available at http://www.geneamusings.com/2009/08/best-of-genea-blogs-26-july-1-august.html

Enjoy -- Randy

Added by Randy Seaver on August 3, 2009 at 10:51am — No Comments

Brandon Platt

looking for any help to find a Brandon Platt who tried to contact me David Morris through my ancestry.ca account.

Unfortunately I'm unable to renew my subscription and so I unable to communicate with him.

Anyone who has an access to ancestry.ca will forward my information to him to contact me directly through my e-mail address or through this web page initially.

He uses the handle of scorehome, and Lives in Wallsend, Northumberland, England.

Our connections are through the… Continue

Added by David L Morris on August 3, 2009 at 8:59am — 2 Comments

Group Management on Genealogy Wise

Forget the fact that the number of groups on Genealogy Wise expands daily, which has been overwhelming for some (side note: Genealogy Wise is working on group categories to make the groups more accessible), what about those of us who are beginning to get overwhelmed by the amount of groups we have joined and created. I currently am a member of 67 groups. Of those 67 groups I created 36 of them. Most of the groups I created are surname groups, which the exception of the Daughters of the American… Continue

Added by Jennifer Eklund, PLCGS on August 2, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Family Tree Connection - Update (2/Aug/2009)

Family Tree Connection has added the following genealogy items to its database:

Machigonne Encampment, No. 1 of I.O.O.F. 1872 By-Laws - Constitution and By-Laws of Machigonne Encampment, Number One, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Portland, ME.

Dividend Mutual Insurance Company 1856 Report - Sixth Annual…

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Added by Illya Daddezio on August 2, 2009 at 1:08pm — No Comments

What's New?

I like Genewise's main page much more than most sites I have used. Still, I think it would be nice to have more obvious notification to changes in blogs and forums and groups that I am interested in. The mail notifications stink, honestly. I don't want them in my mail. I want to open my home page and see right away what I have missed.

Yesterday, I fed my blog page and genewise's main page to Google Reader. BINGO!! There it is. I will probably add some other feeds from here, like the Dare… Continue

Added by Eileen Cogan on August 2, 2009 at 7:51am — 1 Comment

Help with Reichenau

After years of searching for my grandfather's birthplace, I have a lead that should prove useful. I have followed any number of blind leads, some from his family, but now I believe I have useful data. In March, 1913, he applied for a passport to return to Germany to visit his family. In that application he says he was born in Richenau, Germany on 11 August 1855. I have no information on his religion before he came to the United States, which he says was in January 1883, leaving from Bremen… Continue

Added by Don Michel on August 1, 2009 at 5:57pm — No Comments

I have to admit that I don’t find the History Channel very interesting.

My husband watches it constantly and aside from something that occasionally catches my eye, I find most discussions of political, military and social history rather boring. I am horrible at remembering dates and while I can recount the presidents since I was born, prior to that, I don’t know my Adamses from my Tafts or even remotely where they fall in the historical timeline. It just doesn’t really interest me or capture my attention.

Now YOUR history, or your story, that’s a… Continue

Added by Stefani Twyford on August 1, 2009 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Enos (Eneas) Gary - Revolutionary Patriot

The following is the potential start for Enos Gary's story. 1757-1844. He served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War and was the first settler of Rushford NY. I have found the Declaration he made when he filed for pension and there is a book denoting the centennial of Rushford that has a chapter about him. From this I've decided to write his story.

Here is the opening:

June 7, 1832, Congress passed the last and most liberal of the service –pension acts benefiting… Continue

Added by Trudy Doolittle on August 1, 2009 at 11:20am — 4 Comments

Geocities closing - genealogy sites that will be affected

I'm compiling a list of genealogy web sites that will move or diasppear altogether when Geocities closes in October.

This is your last chance to get what you can from them while you can.

To see the list of pages click here.

You can also contribute more pages to the list -- instructions on how to do so are on the same page.

Added by Steve Hayes on August 1, 2009 at 10:40am — 2 Comments