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Franklin was born 26 June 1860 Greene Co. PA and died June  1940 in Wheatland , Wyoming was carried back by train to Iowa for burial next to his wife. Mom was expecting me and she could not go. It broke her heart. 

Franklin Cornelius Hoffman, son of Sanford and Rachel Plants Hoffman raised three children:

Robert, Grace and Cecil Leroy. Their mother was Samantha Abigail DuVall, also born in PA near Franklin.

Mom always called him Grandpa Frank.  The  man…

This week marks the beginning of the holiday gift-giving season. Perhaps you are wondering what you might give to a fellow family history researcher or genealogist, or maybe your family and friends are asking you for hints.

Simple, practical gifts include a disposable camera to take to cemeteries, a package of photo paper, mini-cassette recorder for archive research or interviewing relatives, vinyl-coated paper clips, acid-free file folders and archival-safe, acid free and lignin-free…

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SPRINGVILLE, Utah. — November 19, 2012 — RootsMagic, Inc. today announced…

I was just looking back over some old research and I came across a record of my grandfather from WWI.In the record it stated he had been charged with "leaving his post",this was while he was in hospital in England after been wounded in the Battle of the Somme.He was gone for 2 hrs,unfortunately it doesn't say where he went but my thoughts are he slipped out of the hospital…

 

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Ancestry.com’s new…

I was watching some news coverage of Hurricane Sandy a few days ago and there was a woman standing on the site of what was once her home, holding a battered and soggy wedding photo of her parents. She was sobbing, saying this was the only photo she could find of her parents. It was painful to watch. For years, I have been writing about the need to protect heirloom property such as photos and scrapbooks. I can’t recall where I read this but insurance companies report that the number one loss…

It always seems like there aren't enough hours in the day or enough days in the week, doesn't it? Take a look around you. Do you have piles of research laying around? Old books…

Hello everyone,I have a lot of info on the Dublin branch of the "Hallion" family so if anyone has info to share please contact me here,thanks,Bob Hallion.

Familyrelatives.com releases three new military datasets for the first time containing lists of more than 35,000 British and Dominion…

Sanford HOFFMAN and Thomas H Neal (Phebe's husband)

U.S. Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976 Biographical and Genealogical History of Appanoose and Monroe

Counties , Ia. 

Pg 682 Ex-Soldiers Sailors and Marines

      West Virginia Continued

Name                                Rank                                 Co.            Present Post Office Address

Sanford Hoffman                Private                          …

George C. Franklin was born November 1849 in McDowell County, NC.

He married Emily Griffin on January 15, 1871 in McDowell County, NC. No one knows for sure where George was before he got married, but a George of about the same age shows up in the 1860 and 1870 censuses in Madison County, NC. In their marriage record it states George's parents to be Ezekiel and Dianna…

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This site is the only one which has actually covered these two extremely important persons.  If one reads the ancestry.com or Devon Records, you get a totally wrong impression.  I note that Victor Cowling often mentions these names.  However in that era no…

Richard Higgins b England   1600

d  21 June 1675 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Colony  m Lydia Chandler 1634 Mass

 m Mary Snow Yates(w) Oct 1651 Mass  b 1603 Mass

Jediah Higgins b 5 March 1655/6  Eastham, Mass

d 1715  , New Jersey

m Mary Newbold  b 23 May 1661 York England  m 12 May 1684 

d 1715     New Jersey

Jediah Higgins b 11 April 1691

d 19 Jan 1772 New Jersey

m Hannah Stout b 29 Mar…

I Am trying to find my great grandfathers imformation,he put his children in the protestant orphan assylum in the early 1900's and joined the merchant marines,they never seen him again. My grandfathers name was Daniel Carlsen and I am not sure what his fathers name was.The orphanage was in Detroit,Mi.

I am looking for information on Mary Ann Warren (nee Mitchell) B 1837, Cornwall.  Arrrived in Australia 1849 (SA).  Her husband Richard Albert Warren B 1830, Cornwall was the proprietor of the Ovens and Murray Advertiser in Beechworth.

I am looking for any information regarding Mary's life as I believe she was an active member in her community.

Last week I was at an annual conference for the Association of Personal Historians in St. Louis, Missouri. This is my fourth conference to attend, and one of the highlights for me is catching up with people from all over the world that I communicate with regularly but don’t get to see in person all too often, as well as meeting new historians and learning about the work that they are up to.

This year I had the pleasure of having dinner with a Danish woman. She told me about a long…

Researchers with the American School of Genealogy, Heraldry, and Documentary Sciences are looking for participants familiar with genealogy to answer a survey for a research project. Respondents will receive free ad space in the school's next issue of their journal Altair. Please email me at Eklundj9@aol.com to receive a copy of the cover letter, survey, and the last issue of Altair. Please put in the subject line Genealogy Survey so I can recognize emails associated…