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           Topics for Lemon Grove Library for November and December are posted here.

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20 November 2013  " Thanksgiving Memories,  Each person will share a Thanksgiving Memory or Tradition, is it related to an Ethnicity?" led by  Susi 

4 December 2013   "Roundtable Talks, and Your Goals for the Next Year," led by Susi, &…

In this age of technological advancements and the use of social media, searching for a long last ancestor has become much easier.  But consider this, what may be a exciting find, can also be a privacy disaster.



Public records are available to anyone who knows how to search for them. A genealogical treasure trove of material is out there.   But often those same public records are misused as a form of identity theft.  Public records leave clues that can lead to other records and…

Since my family moved around so much, I have very little in the way of pictures or letters of my ancestors.  What I do have is so very precious to me.



My mother never met her paternal grandmother, and only had one photograph of her.  Her grandmother had passed away from pneumonia leaving very young children to be raised by others, among them my…

 I was doing research for a family history newsletter I send out to my kin on Mom's side of our family when I discovered we have some rough characters on our kin list.

I was checking the Blanton line back and remember Martha Shepherd marrying one of my Blanton g-grandfathers (George)back in the late 1700's or early 1800. It seems Martha had a brother, James Pendleton Shepherd or Shepard as it was sometimes spelled, who moved to Kansas and he had two or three grandsons who grew up to…

I recently attended my 40th class school reunion out in Southern California. There was a whirlwind of activities, two parties on a Friday night, the real reunion on Saturday night and then a brunch picnic the following Sunday morning. I didn’t attend the brunch, choosing instead to have breakfast with a small group of woman I have known since I was a very young girl. It was a good choice. It allowed us an intimate time to reflect on our lives and the past two days, and I didn’t want to…

My grandpa, Henry Redeker, was adopted when he was young. No one knows who the real birth parents are. The only information I have is that his last name would have been Weber. He was born in Wisconsin in 1925. His adoptive parents are Minnie and John Redeker. After doing some research, I potentially have a match to who his birth parents are. I checked out the 1930 census and discovered there was a Henry Weber Sr. and Regna Weber with a son named Henry living together. Henry would have been 5…

Our Family Histories  the second site is: Eastern United States Research

 If you have a webpage that is paid by a credit card, any time that credit card has problems, ie someone trying to hack account or use it illegally, your bank will fix the problem. What you have to watch for is did they notify your people that are paid monthly from that Credit Card.  I…

  Our Separating Methods

  Not wanting to harp, growl and howl, I have been saying for at least four years and each year it gets worse, we have created a Separating Method for doing Genealogy.

  Today, having received my UpFront with NGS, I wanted to leap for joy that someone else noticed.…

 Having found many relatives on Facebook how about you?  Filling in the blanks has become fun and interesting because you can see their faces right away and that is so much fun.

 Recently receiving a picture of hubbies Great Grandfather I know where his eyebrows probably came from.  It is a young man of 19 in the picture. The only other one he is in 60's, and side profile.

  Not gotten the hang of Pinterest but others are constantly talking about the…

Hollister, MO, October 25, 2013 -- "Christmas at the Homeplace" is the fourth book in "The Homplace Saga" series of historical fiction family saga stores set in a rural river valley in the southern Missouri Ozarks near a fictional western branch of the Current…

I have been researching the Stouffer/Stauffer familys of Franklin Co. Pa. for about 20 yrs. Seems I can find everything except what I am after! If anyone is researching these families pleas let me know.

Jim

 On the back of the picture it says Samuel Casper was 19 years old.  Taken about? 1868. A tintype photo shared by cousin Dick Thomas.  Thanks Dick.

Last year I shared some of my family tree with a friend. After a few days they sent me an E mail. One sentence stood out. "Did you know that you are a descendant of Don Juan Ponce de Leon, Adelantado de la Florida?"

I was a little surprised then I wrote my friend back. No? Do you have any details?

They sent me a family tree that was documented up to Antonio Maldonado y Nieves married to Dona Manuela Montalvo.

Antonio was born 1795 in Utuado, Puerto Rico. 

I sat…

Christian Jipp was born 18 Sept 1825 in Germanic Region of today's Germany. His death took place 4 Feb 1881 in Gramdorf, Germany  which is a region of Schleswig-Holstein.  He was only 45.  He married Sophia Johanna Henrietta 

Hammerich in Germanic region of Schleswig-Holstein we believe. She was born 16 Sept 1835 Gramdorf , and died 10 Feb 1900 in Wilton, IA.  

She came to the USA after her husbands' death. Bringing all her children we think. Charles Jipp was their…