Quoting from the
Community Trees website,
Community Trees are lineage-linked genealogies from specific time periods and geographic localities around the world. The information also includes the supporting sources. Most of the
genealogies are joint projects between FamilySearch and others who live
locally or have expertise in the area or records used to create the
genealogies. Each Community Tree is a…
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Added by James Tanner on August 22, 2010 at 8:01am —
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Genealogy is not an exact science. What we know about the historical
past and particularly our family is based on our experience. Some of the
information is likely very accurate, while it is entirely possible that
some of the things we know, or think we know, about our family are
entirely false. Whether our beliefs about our family are based in fact
or not, depends to a great extent on our system of justified beliefs,
that is, those things we "know" to be true from…
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Added by James Tanner on August 21, 2010 at 6:14pm —
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today I was finally able to get in and take care of old business. I believe my problem was that my computer needed to be "freshened up" and so I deleated old unused programs. Now I can get somewhere. Sorry to those who needed me or needed into the group. I hope that is all updated now.
I am finding how amazingly my ancestors shifted locations from Connecticut to New York or New Jersey and back and forth and then down to Pennsylvania within a generation or two. You just have to hunt the…
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Added by Helen Chene on August 20, 2010 at 1:40pm —
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Genealogy is what the academicians call a "multi-discipline" pursuit. That means you use multiple skill sets and wide-ranging knowledge toward an end result. Other buzz words that apply to genealogy are the macro- and micro-. Through the micro- or narrow scope, we connect the family member "dots" of personal dates, places, and events; the macro- scope gives us perspective of how the specific fits in to the general sense of history.
You can hardly escape this "new" sense of what is…
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Added by William S Dean on August 19, 2010 at 10:20am —
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My Bergmann family originally came from Bremen Germany. They bought a brick plant and became Brick Masons here in Terre Haute, IN. The name was The Park Brick Plant approx. 20-30 ft.from the corner of 6th and Ohio St. This was told to me by the historian at the Vigo County Public Library where the history of the Bergmann family is kept within a glass shelved cabinet.
Added by Nancy Sue Bergmann on August 18, 2010 at 7:04pm —
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If your ancestors lived in Colonial New England, or if you suspect that your ancestors lived in New England any time up until 1800, then you must have used the New Hampshire State Papers for your genealogical research. I first came across this wonderful resource years ago (before the internet) at the Portsmouth Atheneum library. Now, when I run across a new name in the family tree, I can go to the NH…
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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on August 16, 2010 at 8:22am —
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Right out of the chute, plagiarism is not a criminal act. The closest
legal involvement is with copyright infringement or violation claims.
Certainly, extensive plagiarism is almost always also a violation of
copyright. To quote from the University of Arizona Libraries website on
Avoiding Plagiarism,
"Plagiarism is using others' ideas and words without clearly
acknowledging the source of…
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Added by James Tanner on August 15, 2010 at 7:30am —
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We are so lucky to have the ability to blog and enhance our research by blogging. It never ceases to amaze me when some one new blogs and about 6 to 8 weeks later say,"I found a relative via the new blog."
Thomas M. really said it all two years ago at the Burbank Conference about why to blog and what the advantages were.
1. The search engine technique of today is different than ten years ago or less. The webcrawlers need a larger query to locate…
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Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on August 14, 2010 at 12:03pm —
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October is National Family History Month
Join us for our Special Annual Seminar…
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Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on August 13, 2010 at 6:00pm —
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Has been updated
http://harrisfamilyancestry.blogspot.com/I discuss my thoughts about next steps in publishing/sharing my genealogy documents and findings.
Val
Added by Val Harris on August 13, 2010 at 4:43pm —
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I'm looking for information about my gr gr grandfather Nathaniel Spencer, b. 1821 in KY, d.1864 in Phelps County MO. 43 years of age.
He married Esther Moon in Crawford county MO (now Phelps co) in 1846. They had nine children: The fourth was my gr grandfather Jacob E.Spencer b.1853 in Phelps Co. MO. (about whom I have much information)
The 1850 MO census shows Nathaniel as living in Rolla MO and states that he was born in KY in 1821.
I'm trying to find Nathaniels…
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Added by Charles L. Spencer on August 13, 2010 at 2:15pm —
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Some of the most valuable documents for family history research consist
of diaries, journals and letters. From time to time, copyright issues
arise concerning these types of documents, especially if the text of the
documents or a facsimile is being published either online or in a
printed format. The first rule is that physical possession of the
documents does not confer any right to the copyright. I have found that
the possessor of the document usually incorrectly…
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Added by James Tanner on August 13, 2010 at 9:04am —
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I'm looking for any info on the parents of my grgrandfather William Washington Jones and Catherine Phillips. They had five daughters but I only have 2 names, Martha Jane(Mattie) and Ella. Mattie was my grandmother married F.M(Frank) Weems all of Abbeville, AL. Mattie's birthday abt. 1869 death 1918 at age 49.
grgrgrandfather had a lot of brothers and sisters: Maybe this can help someone searching for family
Mary Martha Jones b:1831 AL mar Radford Ellis…
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Added by Annette Weems Spencer on August 12, 2010 at 4:17pm —
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This post is a continuation of the discussion in my last post, Can I obtain a copyright of a copy of an old document? The commentary is directed at websites that claim copyrights to digitized images of old documents of interest to genealogists, such as U.S. Census records, wills, deeds, maps and other such items. Let's suppose that as an attorney, I have read all…
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Added by James Tanner on August 12, 2010 at 12:27pm —
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This story includes excerpts referring to several of my relatives. It is part of a series of Biographical Sketches from Burke County, North Carolina that were written by by Col Thomas George Walton (1815-1905) and were first
published in the old Morganton Herald in 1894.
“PETER MULL [7x great-uncle] was elected Sheriff in 1790.”
“THOMAS…
Added by Tonia Kendrick on August 12, 2010 at 6:30am —
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I am interested in finding more family members who are desended from Franklin Eugene CHASE and Mary A. MAXWELL. Frank was born in June, 1855 in Michigan but lived most of his adult life in Iowa. Mary was born in April, 1858 in Amboy, Lee County, Iowa. Frank and Mary were married in Amboy, Lee County and then relocated to La Salle County, Illinois and had their first two children, William Chase and Amos Adelbert CHASE. Frank and Mary then moved to Iowa and settled in Clinton County, Iowa where…
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Added by Penni on August 12, 2010 at 4:30am —
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Recent news releases in the genealogical community highlight additions
to more huge online databases of historic images, including private
documents such as journals, wills, maps and other such items. Many of
these images are put online by companies trying to charge a fee for some
aspect of either searching or reproducing the documents. This raises a
more than academic question, can anyone obtain copyright protection by
virtue of scanning an old documents and…
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Added by James Tanner on August 11, 2010 at 9:08pm —
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We were recently sitting around the Easter dinner table discussing tuition, college and relishing the fact that we will no longer be paying tuition, since our daughter graduates with her Master’s Degree a few weeks from now.
My mom stated that she paid $110.00 for all…
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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on August 11, 2010 at 7:44pm —
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Books I read ahead or bought along the way:
The Betrayal of Liliuokalani, Last Queen of Hawaii, by Helena G. Allen,…
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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on August 11, 2010 at 7:40pm —
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There are a number of ways to digitize documents and photographs. The
two primary ways are to use some form of a scanner or in the
alternative, some kind of digital camera. Following is a number of
digital files of the same document acquired for the computer with
different options. In each case the document was scanned or photographed
at the optimal level for the device. The file was saved as a .tif file
and the image was magnified to 200% of the original. The…
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Added by James Tanner on August 9, 2010 at 8:07pm —
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