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Indexes are hearsay

If a witness were testifying in court and began to relate a conversation they had outside of the court, the attorney for the opposing party would immediately object to the testimony on the basis of the hearsay rule of evidence. Almost uniformly in the U.S. court system testimony about what someone said, with a few specific exceptions, if inadmissible and objectionable. If the witness manages to say something about their conversation before the attorney can object, the Judge can order the… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 26, 2009 at 8:22am — No Comments

Cades Cove Tennessee

Even though my wife isn't a member of genealogy wise I thought I would mention her Tennessee Tipton connection. My wifes mother had a professional genealogist do their family research some years ago and a book was written about the Tiptons from Tennessee,we donated one book to the Estill County Historical Society & gave another as a gift to her sister. (Of course now I wish we had a third book)

My wifes 5th or 6th great grandfather was William Tipton a veteran of the… Continue

Added by Ken Jones on November 25, 2009 at 10:10pm — No Comments

A Big Appetite, He must have loved Thanksgiving!

My mom found this little news clipping amongst her mother’s things. We finally figured out that the main character in the little story was her great grandmother’s brother. John Edwin Healey worked in the family business, Hoogerzeil Express Company. This was a Beverly, Massachusetts trucking and moving business started in the days before motorized vehicles. In the 1949 article it says he just celebrated his 92nd birthday, but I found him in the… Continue

Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 25, 2009 at 3:04pm — No Comments

My Heritage For Mac users

Any movement to make My Heritage download available for Mac users??

Added by Paul Priems on November 25, 2009 at 1:48pm — No Comments

Swiss records digitized online

Although Switzerland is one of the smaller countries in Europe, many people in the U.S. can trace their ancestry to Swiss immigrants. Except for collections of individual Swiss family files, there have been very few actual Swiss source documents online and especially those with free access. Now in its worldwide reach, FamilySearch's Record Search announces the first online Swiss records. In an announcement dated November 24, 2009 Record Search added Switzerland, Schaffhausen Church Records… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 25, 2009 at 7:51am — No Comments

Family History Notes: My Fathers Side

My Father’s Mother -Cecelia Jacquinot Halley

My grandmother is 93 years old and was a great help to me. She lives in New Jersey so most of our conversations were by phone. We spent many hours talking about family history; I enjoyed her stories of how she grew up on a Kansas farm. One night asking her questions about her family. She was telling me about the church she was baptized and married in. I went online to research the church and found an article Legend of Greenbush… Continue

Added by Kathleen Melendez on November 24, 2009 at 9:49pm — No Comments

Family History Notes: My Mother's Side

Both of my mother’s parents are deceased so I relied on her for information. We got as far as her mother’s parents and their children then we were stuck. One of my grandmother’s sisters was still alive so I wrote to her asking if she would help me with the family tree, hoping she would remember me, I have not seen her for years. She did and she was very helpful. She wrote down everything she knew; her parent’s names and birth dates, even her mother’s maiden name! Her brothers and sisters birth… Continue

Added by Kathleen Melendez on November 24, 2009 at 9:43pm — No Comments

Family Stats: Your Family's Facts and Anecdotes, All in One Place

Have you ever wondered who is your oldest living relative, or what is the most common birth month of your family? How about who married the youngest, who had the most children, and whose marriage didn't make it?

Now you can access all this information easily with Family Statistics, MyHeritage.com's new analytics… Continue

Added by Daniel Horowitz on November 24, 2009 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Hundreds of thousands of new records online

With the winding down of the introduction of New FamilySearch to U.S. Temple Districts, FamilySearch has apparently turned some of its resources towards increasing the number of records available on Record Search. An announcement on November 23, 2009 indicates that Record Search has just added over 250,000 images to the Brazil Catholic Church Records collection. Here is a description of the records from the FamilySearch Wiki:…

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Added by James Tanner on November 24, 2009 at 8:27am — No Comments

Kreative Blogger Award Thanks to Heather Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy, Angela at What Was Their Story and Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings for nominating me for the Kreative Blogger award. Apparently, …

Kreative Blogger Award

Thanks to Heather Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy, Angela at What Was Their Story and Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings for nominating me for the Kreative Blogger award. Apparently, this is sort-of a chain letter kind of thing but I'll go along for the ride. Here is my list of seven things about myself:

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Added by James Tanner on November 23, 2009 at 8:31pm — No Comments

The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 5

The Wreck of the "Angel Gabriel"

The Great migration was an exodus of Puritans from England to New England between 1620 and 1640. During this time John Winthrop sailed on the “Arabella” and wrote his famous sermon about the “City on a Hill” during the voyage. Most of my ancestors arrived in this period, on many ships, mostly unrecorded by passenger lists. One ship carried the most ancestors (besides the Mayflower), and that was the… Continue

Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 23, 2009 at 9:41am — No Comments

A disaster averted

During the recent upgrade of my operating system from Windows XP to Windows 7, I began transferring files from my old computer to a new one. As part of the transfer, I checked one of my old journal files. Now, there needs to be a little bit of an explanation here. I started writing a weekly/daily journal about 35 years ago. The first few years the entries were handwritten, but over time, I changed to keeping my journal on the computer. Printed out, my journal would be thousands of pages. A few… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 23, 2009 at 8:35am — No Comments

Where to find your family's stories online - part 1, Digitized Texts

(The following is from my presentation in SecondLife on Nov. 19th, at the Just Genealogy fire pit. And as always, all sites I mention are on my toolbar, under Publications tab (http://relativelycurious.ourtoolbar.com - completely free)

It’s always exciting to find a birth, marriage or death date on one of your ancestors. So many online resources are becoming available now that make filling in those blanks… Continue

Added by tami osmer glatz on November 23, 2009 at 8:32am — No Comments

George Childs Dunmow Essex

Looking for information on George Henry Childs born Dunmow Essex between 1856 and 1864 according to census information. Wed Sarah Kemball Colchester Essex 1882 and went on to have 3 children. I have not been able to locate George's exact birth details. Marriage certificate lists him "of age" and census dates differ. Also no "George Henry" Childs born in the area for the period only "george" Childs. Can anyone help, even if you have details of any of the George Childs born in the period so that… Continue

Added by Colin Childs on November 23, 2009 at 6:39am — No Comments

Family Tree Connection - Update (22/Nov/2009)

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

Alma P. E. O. Chapter B J 1924-1925 Calendar - 1924-1925, Alma, Nebraska, Chapter B J, P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization). Meetings 3:00 o'clock First and Third Tuesdays. Organized March 31, 1914.

The Mothers Club 1929-1930…

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Added by Illya Daddezio on November 22, 2009 at 12:58pm — No Comments

DAR Ancestor Search

DAR has opened up their online Genealogical Research System to the public. It includes the Ancestor Database which contains the lineage information from most of the verified DAR applications - under construction -.
http://www.dar.org/library/online_research.cfm

Added by The Genealogy Box on November 22, 2009 at 11:22am — 1 Comment

Research Paper Published

I am pleased to announce that my peer-reviewed research paper on my ancestor John Van Gelder has been published in New York State Museum Bulletin 511, Mohican Seminar 3, The Journey, An Algonquian Peoples Seminar, edited by Shirley W. Dunn. My paper, "The Impact of John Van Gelder: Mohican, Husbandman, and Historic Figure," is Chapter 10. It is a result of several years' research prompted by the biased and undocumented history that I found. This is my first published… Continue

Added by Debbie Winchell (Loving Dove) on November 21, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Can your ancestors' bad deeds affect you generations later?

Nikki Mackay, who lives in the next village, author of The Science of Family: Working with Ancestral Patterns

says you can blame your ancestors if you end up in doomed relationships, drink too much or generally just behave badly! Apparently, the events of previous generations can have far-reaching implications… Continue

Added by William Douglas on November 21, 2009 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Cluster Genealogy in Shenandoah Co., VA

Since I haven't been able to find Esther Longenacker in Shenandoah County records yet, I decided to start with cluster genealogy. The bondsman for her marriage to Adam G. Baker was Adam Poke. It took a while to find out that his last name has also been recorded as Polk, Fuchs and Fox. Last night I found out that he attended the Old Pine Church in the county that was Lutheran and German Reformed. From reading entries in Rootsweb it looks like he came from either Berks or Philadelphia County,… Continue

Added by Debbie Winchell (Loving Dove) on November 21, 2009 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Comments on RootsMagic Essentials -- free genealogy program

If you already have a copy of RootsMagic 4 on your computer and you try to download the new RootsMagic Essentials, you will end up with an update to your existing program but not a separate copy of the program. So if you want to see how the program runs, you left looking at the feature's list. I guess I will have to find someone without the program, since this is what happened to me when I tried to look at the new program for evaluation.

From the features list, it looks like the… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 20, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments