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Moses Qualls (Quarles) Biographical Sketch

I found an interesting biographical sketch of Moses Qualls in the Rootsweb Qualls-Quarles mailing list…

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Added by Tonia Kendrick on March 4, 2010 at 5:23pm — No Comments

MyHeritage.com Acquires Major Family Network OSN

MyHeritage.com, the company that connects families to their past and to one another, today announced a significant expansion of its global family network through the acquisition of the Hamburg-based OSN Group, which operates a network of 10 market-leading family sites, including Verwandt.de (Germany), Moikrewni.pl (Poland) and Dynastree.com (USA).

MyHeritage.com now holds a formidable international registered member base of 47 million, and offers its services in 35 languages. The… Continue

Added by William Douglas on March 3, 2010 at 12:22pm — No Comments

Aussie

i am from the same family although we ended up in australia about 4 generations ago

Added by Darren Rowtcliff on March 3, 2010 at 8:53am — No Comments

Strange things that happened on the way to a cemetery…..

Several years ago, it was a weekend,…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on March 3, 2010 at 8:11am — No Comments

Record Search adds records from Illinois and the Netherlands

FamilySearch

Record Search has added over 500,000 records from the Cook County,

Illinois Birth Certificate records. The collection includes the City of

Chicago and covers the time period from 1878 to 1922 containing over 1.5

million names. New records were also added to the Netherlands, Gelderland

Province Civil Registration. The collection… Continue

Added by James Tanner on March 2, 2010 at 6:18pm — No Comments

Genealogy Supermarket

Introducing GenealogySupermarket the place to buy, sell or swap your genealogy items free with our free ads!

We have just started this new website www.genealogysupermarket.com for people who have found items that would interest others, perhaps something they have been searching for, a family bible found in a jumble sale, a post card from an ancestor, a rare or hard to find book. The list… Continue

Added by Cemetery Scribes Project on March 2, 2010 at 2:09am — 1 Comment

Saviel Family in Burma.

Hi all I would like to know if anyone know of my Saviel Family in Burma from 1861 . they are my great grand father George Thomas Saviel and he was married in Burma in 1873 to Rose Hnin Si .

If you have any information on them let me know.

Yours

George T Saviel

gtsaviel@gmail.com

Added by George Thomas Saviel on March 1, 2010 at 8:55pm — No Comments

The Kindness of Strangers

A few weeks ago, I posted about Find a Grave.

One of the features they offers is a “Request a Photo” program. Users

of the website can volunteer to take headstone photographs and Find a

Grave keeps track of their locations. When another user requests a

photo from a particular cemetery, the website… Continue

Added by Tonia Kendrick on March 1, 2010 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Census Destruction Please advise everyone.

From: Patricia Max <pam@lampinc.com>

>> Subject: [IAJASPER] FYI

>> To: iajasper@rootsweb.com

>> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 4:41 AM

>> The archivist, David S. Ferriero, can

>> be reached by email at

>> research@nara.gov.

>> The website listed below has addresses for others

>> that you may contact.

>>

>> Patricia Max

>>

>>

>>> The… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on February 28, 2010 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment

WorldCat.org, Google Books and more...

WorldCat.org is a major international connection to over 10,000

libraries worldwide and catalogs over 1.5 billion items. Google Books

contains over 10,000,000 digitized books and magazines. WorldCat.org

and Google Books are now interlinked. If you search for a book on

Google Books and find the item, one of the options is to find the item

in a library. Clicking on this option gives you a link to… Continue

Added by James Tanner on February 28, 2010 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Edwin Lee - The Lost Great Great Grandfather finally found.

Edwin Lee was born January 14,1814 in Green, New York, Broome County. He married Harriett French in New York February 15, 1840. They had 4 children - Alamanson, Polly Jane, Charles and Morris. Morris is my great grandfather.

Trying to locate Edwin and his family in census has not been alot of fun. They just simply cannot be found. Edwin was a barge canal captain on the Chenango Canal so I'm wondering when the census was taken they were on the barges.…

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Added by PD Vasil` on February 28, 2010 at 3:37pm — No Comments

Worldwide Top Genealogy Sites

Hey there!

This will only take a few seconds. They reset the Worldwide Top Sites for Genealogy again. If you click on the following link, Worldwide Top Sites, you can vote for ShoeStringGenealogy.com, my free genealogy website. Just click on the underlined link on the window that appears.

I'd greatly appreciate it, and it will help put ShoeString in the top ten, thus enabling more people to visit and…

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Added by Dae Powell on February 26, 2010 at 12:23pm — 2 Comments

New FamilySearch Questions finally get public airing

An

article in Mormon Times, opens the door for almost the first time,

to a main stream airing of some of the most glaring problems with New FamilySearch.

Although the article is low key, it points out some of more difficult

issues with the program. If you have been following the development of

the program at all, you will… Continue

Added by James Tanner on February 26, 2010 at 8:22am — 2 Comments

Golding Family House Painters

I am the great-great-grandaughter of James Golding and Maria Humphris. They married in 1849. He was a house painter. They had I think 8 surviving children - Maria, Elizabeth, James (my grandfather) Jane, William, Emily, Sarah and Anne. James employed his 3 sons, James, William and Edwin as housepainters, until James immigrated to Australia in 1883. They lived variously in Charlton Kings, Guiting Power, and Bouron-on-the-water. In the 1870s they settled more permanently in Regent St Cheltenham.… Continue

Added by Anne Golding-Ross on February 25, 2010 at 7:46pm — No Comments

Faces of America and GenealogyBank comments

Today we were able to watch a segment on Faces of America. The hope to encourage people to learn more about whom they are and whom in their back ground helped to make them whom they are.

It was great with the diversity of the people interviewed and researched, to learn that there was even an interconnect between two of them. No I will not tell the whom's.

Then in the blog GenealogyBank.com by Thomas Kemp there was a great start of how to start your Genealogy. It was labeled… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on February 24, 2010 at 11:20pm — No Comments

Canada's Black Settlements & The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was neither Underground, nor was it a Railroad. It was in essence a series of conductors, safe houses, trails along rivers, secret routes, sometimes walking, and other times hiding in wagons. Before Europeans arrived, North and South America was comprised of thousands of Native American Tribes. Native Cultures date back at least ten thousand years, having traveled over the Bering Strait into North…

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Added by Anita Wills on February 23, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Researching genealogy at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, now over 200

years old, is recognized as the largest library in the United States and

has claims to being the largest library in the world. Its collections

are described as follows:

In 1992, the Library acquired its 100 millionth item. The collections now include

approximately fifteen million books, thirty-nine million manuscripts,

thirteen million photographs, four million maps, more… Continue

Added by James Tanner on February 23, 2010 at 6:50pm — No Comments

New Book on German Emigration

Udo Thoerner’s History of Emigration…

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Added by Carolyn Bening on February 23, 2010 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Personal History Projects with Memory Loss Patients

I have been working on preparing a presentation I am giving on March 2 at the Abundant Living Conference at Camp Allen. The conference spans 3 days and is billed as “Explore aging as a spiritual journey-grow mentally, socially and creatively. Come, relax, enjoy… celebrate the years!” The setting is a beautiful one, deep in the Piney Woods. I have never been to Camp Allen. In fact, it’s been many years since I’ve been to any ‘camp’ at all so I’m looking…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on February 22, 2010 at 6:02pm — 2 Comments