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The 1940 Census is now fully indexed just in time for October's Family History Month! To commemorate these two great occasions, Archives.com created a fun and informative interactive graphic showcasing all 23 Censuses! The interactive graphic can be found at the following URL:



http://www.archives.com/1940-census-facts.html



Complete with…

Photographs, Aging and What to Do.

 Like this bolt of lightening that rippled between the clouds, this thought hit me.

 What is going to happen to our photographs? Especially the old inherited ones of the 1850's 1860's forward.

 Will someone in my family keep them or take them out and burn them?

 When my husbands' Grandmother passed, the family  dumped many photos into the yard and had a bonfire with all the things they did not…

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I would like to find any Living Relatives of my Grandfather, Henry Blessington Peters who was from Calcutta, India who moved to London, England in 1961. He was a Prominent Musician in India with My Great Grandfathers Band and talked about Friends with Names like Buckie and an American GI called Paul Meeks who wanted Him to go to the USA after the War and Marry His Sister. Any Info on any of the people i…

In every family, someone ends up with Mom’s and Dad’s “stuff” – a lifetime’s worth of old photos, letters, papers, and memorabilia packed into boxes, suitcases, closets,…

Research and Where to Look

Research and where to look and no, I do not mean on line. At a recent event, in fact, two recent events we had attendees whom are still not on computers, or at least do not own one.

Yes, many of them are older and never were exposed to a Computer via school or work. Others were young, and could not yet afford the luxury of a computer. It is not a life need for many. They were learning to use Library computers.

Last fall…

CeCe Moore, DNA Professional to Speak Bonita-Sunnyside Library

CeCe Moore, DNA professional will be talking about DNA on 7 October from 1 to 3 P M at the Bonita-Sunnyside Library, Bonita, CA.  4375 Bonita Road Bonita, CA 91902 

CeCe Moore is coming to the Bonita-Sunnyside Library to talk on DNA. October 7th from 1 p m to 3 p…

 1000memories’ Online Photo Digitizing Technology Brings New Sharing

Capabilities to Ancestry.com Users (PROVO, Utah) – Oct. 3, 2012 – Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, announced today it has acquired 1000memories Inc., the San Francisco-based startup that has been focused on helping people digitize and share the estimated 1.7 trillion paper photos stored in their albums, attics, and shoeboxes.

Founded…

First of all, what is oral history? Put simply it is a collection of testimonies by living persons to record their unique life stories. They are not based on gossip, hearsay or rumors. Instead, oral histories are chronicles of direct observations as told by the people who witnessed the events or lived through the experiences being described. They are taken straight from the horse’s mouth so to speak.

This can be a great way of capturing the life and times of your family, close…

California Research, A Great Site and Greater Resources 

Having recently found this site and shared information with Leslie Brinkley Lawson, Forensic Genealogist, and Speaker.

Wishing to share this information with those not already exposed.  It seems almost daily there is new  data to be found if one just goes looking.  

The real cool thing about this site is  it expands to other states. This is just highlighting the California Links given, some…

I am pleased to announce that  we have a  new site  as replacement of  Random Act of Genealogical Kindness

www.generousgenealogists.com



We are live for a week now and already 200 volunteers from all over the world have singed up to help researchers with their search for ancestors and all for free of course.



it is a proper website with country forums…

Discoveries made easy: Millions of…

A paternal fourth cousin and me have been coyly corresponding via email. We first met on a DNA site called 23 and me in which a participant submits a test tube of their saliva and the company electronically sends the autosomal results of the individual's ancestral origins. An autosomal test will show both maternal and paternal relatives in a persons ancestry. Fortunately, I was able to talk my dad into performing a test, my mom having been deceased years ago. This fourth cousin matches me on…

Oliver BELL *Interview with Oliver Bell* --Ruby Pickens Tartt, Livingston__ALABAMA _DE BES' FRIEND A NIGGER EVER HAD_ "I was borned on De Graffenreid Place," he said, "nine miles west of Livingston-Boyd Road. My mother was Luella De Graffenreid an' my pappy was Edmund De Graffenreid. Den dey changed my name to BELL. I had one brother, Nat, an' two sisters, Jestina, and CLARA. I has 'bout sixteen chilluns, all born on de same place an' most of dem is livin' dere…

As of last week's update, the obituary index at the Schenectady

Digital History Archive now contains just under 89,000 citations.



a href="http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/vitalrecords/deaths/index.html">http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/vitalrecords/deaths/index.html>



In addition to current and historical Schenectady County newspapers,

the index also includes recent years of papers covering the counties

of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga,…

HI, MY NAME IS ELOISE KAY FILLERMAN, I AM LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO MIGHT HAVE A PICTURE OF MY DAD, HIS NAME IS CLYDE ELMO FILLERMAN, HE WAS BORN JAN.25, 1911 IN QUINCY, ADAMS CO., ILLINOIS, I AM ALSO CHECKING TO FIND MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS' NAME, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF SOMEONE COULD HELP ME OUT IN THESE AREAS, MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS efillerman200@yahoo.com THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Cornelius (Franklin) SCOTT,  wife Ella WARDEN 

back Great Uncle Dan Scott, b 1880 whom I knew, Girl on far end is Inez Mae SCOTT, my Grandmother b 1892

girl in lap I think is Great Aunt Fern,b 1905 whom m Jasper Hampton. boy near GGrandfather is Harrison b 1895 (circus performer at one time), I also met him and his family. b 1905

Other…