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DANIEL SAMUEL HUNT

ESSEX AND WA

Workshop Bonita Sunnyside Library. 1 June 2013

Schedule of Events

Tables set up for group assistance

Assistants are:

 Mary Patterson, Virginia Taylor, Beginners' Assistance  

10:15 to 11:30

John Finch, Military Assistance

10:15 to 11: 30

Susi Pentico, General Assistance

10:15 to 11:30…

As a preservationist, I am always excited when a big name comes on the bandwagon providing information to consumers about preserving precious family archives. It’s a platform I’ve been preaching and promoting for 10 years now and I still consider it as vitally important now as it was when I first became aware of this.

One this stuff is gone, it’s gone!

The New York Times recently added Bertram Lyons, an archivist at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in…

Contact: Erin Shifflett

Phone: 703-525-0050 ext. 112                                                                                                                    

eshifflett@ngsgenealogy.org                                                                                                                    

For Release: …

http://www.ogs.on.ca/conference2013/home/

Ancestry.com Celebrates the 30^th Anniversary of Marley’s Album by Opening Military Records of the Real Buffalo Soldiers Who Inspired the Song

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On May 22, 1863, the War Department issued General Orders 143, establishing a Bureau of Colored Troops in the Adjutant General’s Office to recruit and organize African American soldiers to fight for the Union Army. With this order, all African American regiments were designated as United States Colored Troops (USCT). …

World's Largest Online Family History Resource Sponsors TV Series with Personal Look Inside the Ancestry of Beloved Celebrities

PROVO, Utah, May 21, 2013– Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, announces it has…

http://www.myheritage.com/research/category-3000/military

My name is Julia Quicksall (Born Harlemert).  I am 55 years old, married, have 3 children and 3 grandchildren.  I am a newbie to genealogy.  I started working on my adoptive family history about a month to two months ago.  I am learning a lot about genealogy, and know that there is much more to learn.  I am open to all suggestions that may help me find my adoptive family's ancestors, stories about them, obituaries, etc.  At this time I am working mostly on records that I can find for free,…

The Dagenais surname…

Branch: M42

Age: About 75,000 Years Ago

Location of Origin: Africa

The common direct paternal ancestor of all men alive today was born in Africa around 140,000 years ago. Dubbed “Y-chromosome Adam” by the popular press, he was neither the first human male nor the only man alive in his time. He was, though, the only male whose Y-chromosome lineage is still around today.  All men, including your direct…