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April 24 Seminar Great Find.

We held our mini seminar at the South Branch Library last Saturday. We had 25+ people in attendance.

Many were new faces and we were glad to see this turn out.

After my talk on doing Genealogy Finding Who You Are. Which was intended to get people started with out incurring major expense. Genealogy can be fun and educational, it can help one to better understand their family and it's past. We are the sum of that past and our children and grandchildren are the sum of ours. They… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on April 26, 2010 at 9:50am — No Comments

General Meeting Chula Vista Genealogy Society Wed April 28

Wednesday April 28 at the SOUTH BRANCH LIBRARY AT ORANGE AND FOURTH ST.

Change of venue, due to census people taking over the Civic Center meeting place.

Myrna Goodwin will be talking about LAND RECORDS.

I love to use Land Records they are so helpful in research, You learn the terms of Grantor, Grantee,etc.

They help you to learn the links between families at time. For me they helped me determine which person of same name was mine.

Come listen to Myrna give… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on April 26, 2010 at 9:34am — No Comments

What do I need to know and do to restore damaged photographs? Part Two

Restoring old photographs

The photo above was scanned from small, 3 x 5 inch photo. As you can see the

original is badly creased and torn. After spending some time with Adobe

Photoshop, here is the first pass at removing some of the most obvious

defects: (Click on the images to get a full size view).…

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Added by James Tanner on April 25, 2010 at 7:19pm — No Comments

lindak, yes vachel, james wm, frances. which of vachel's children do you descend from?

Added by dorana on April 25, 2010 at 4:17pm — No Comments

Why Irish Genealogy is So Difficult And Some Links to Help

Lately in the chat room here, we've been discussing how difficult it is doing Irish genealogical research. For those who are seeking their Irish roots and hitting brick walls, I thought I'd mention here some of the problems in Irish genealogy.

Census Reports Destroyed

According to the National Archives of Ireland's website http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/, "The… Continue

Added by William S Dean on April 25, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

What do I need to restore damaged photographs? Part One

In the recent episode of Who Do

You Think You Are, Susan Sarandon carried around a old laminated

photo of her grandmother. With today's technology, she could have had

the old photo scanned and restored, however, that was never mentioned in

the episode. Neither did they mention, later on in the… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 25, 2010 at 8:54am — No Comments

james and son william dillingham

looking for a document to connect james dillingham to wm young dillingham to frances dillingham or will of

james dillingham ky? @1830

Added by dorana on April 24, 2010 at 12:17pm — 2 Comments

Compiled Genealogy Bibliography

I learned about this idea from Martin Holleck at the “Slovak Yankee” blog. He posted a list of compiled genealogies that contain his closest ancestors. It is amazing how making up a list like this shows the holes in my research, or perhaps the need for me to put together some sort of a book or genealogical article for some of these…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on April 24, 2010 at 11:41am — No Comments

Echeverrias in the Gold Rush

My 3rd great-grandparents Teofilo Estolano Echeverria and Jesus Gertrudis Lebrija are my most-traveled ancestors so far.

I have him in 1844 in Baja California as possibly some kind of government employee -… Continue

Added by Patricia Aceves Wyble on April 24, 2010 at 12:53am — No Comments

Update On The Book Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy

Update on the book Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy

Added: Friday, April 23rd 2010 at 10:54am by ayesart

Category: Education > History >…

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Added by Ayesart on April 23, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Please read the interview with David E. Rencher on NFS

Randy Seaver,

of Genea-Musings

has a multi-part

interview with David E. Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer for…

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Added by James Tanner on April 23, 2010 at 8:35am — No Comments

Who was Ralph Carum Tanner? And why do I care?

In my last post, I related some of the problems found in an Ancestry.com

Family Tree containing information supposedly about my

Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner. Primary in those problems was

the addition of three extra children to the Henry Martin/Eliza Ellen

Tanner Family including one "Ralph Carum Tanner." In searching the Web and in

New… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 21, 2010 at 9:41pm — No Comments

Contradictions in genealogical research

Here is an interesting observation. I did a search for my

Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner, on Ancestry.com. This is not an

observation about Ancestry.com as such, but more about the legions of

people who post their family records online. When I look at the entries

for Henry Tanner, I find what I already know, that he had two wives (and

at the same time also). But that is not the issue, one of the

contributors to Ancestry.com has Henry Tanner listed with his… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 21, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

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Added by Holly T. Hansen on April 20, 2010 at 3:23pm — No Comments

Creating a Beautiful Family Tree

Aside from creating a family history so that future generations of your family will know who you are, one of the nicer gifts you can give

your family is a graphical representation of your family tree.

I recently learned about Arbor Arts, an online company that provides beautiful family trees

at a reasonable price. They have 16 tree templates to choose from that

are about…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on April 20, 2010 at 2:24pm — No Comments

RootsMagic 4 Releases Update with FamilySearch AutoMatch

With the newest update to RootsMagic 4,

the program becomes the first software program to automatically match

people with their counterparts on New FamilySearch. In an announcement dated

March 26, 2009, the company;s news release stated:

As… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 20, 2010 at 9:17am — No Comments

Henry and Eva Carlsen Marriage

Marriage Record DetailsLast Name: CarlsonFirst Name: HenryDay: 22Month: AugustYear: 1907County: BarronVolume: 02Page: 0062

Added by Leeann Boone on April 20, 2010 at 1:17am — No Comments

Clicking on green arrows

My Great-grandmother, Mary Ann Linton Morgan, spent most of her adult

life completely involved in genealogy. Back in the early to mid 1900s

she used the limited resources she had available in Salt Lake City, Utah

combined with the U.S. Mail, to research thousands of individuals.

After inheriting her huge files, I spent another ten years or so

digitizing and entering all of the information into computer files.

Grandmother Morgan had three children before her husband… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 19, 2010 at 8:07pm — No Comments

A Mass Grave at Monte Costajan, Spain

In this family photo, Moises was pasted in…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on April 19, 2010 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Become a Genealogy Today Fan on Facebook

This afternoon, I rebuilt my Genealogy Today page at Facebook to highlight some of the key features of the site. If you're Facebook user, I'd appreciate you taking a look and considering becoming a fan.

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Added by Illya Daddezio on April 19, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments