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March 2010 Blog Posts (85)

Strange things that happened on the way to a cemetery…..

Several years ago, it was a weekend,…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on March 3, 2010 at 8:11am — No Comments

Record Search adds records from Illinois and the Netherlands

FamilySearch

Record Search has added over 500,000 records from the Cook County,

Illinois Birth Certificate records. The collection includes the City of

Chicago and covers the time period from 1878 to 1922 containing over 1.5

million names. New records were also added to the Netherlands, Gelderland

Province Civil Registration. The collection… Continue

Added by James Tanner on March 2, 2010 at 6:18pm — No Comments

Genealogy Supermarket

Introducing GenealogySupermarket the place to buy, sell or swap your genealogy items free with our free ads!

We have just started this new website www.genealogysupermarket.com for people who have found items that would interest others, perhaps something they have been searching for, a family bible found in a jumble sale, a post card from an ancestor, a rare or hard to find book. The list… Continue

Added by Cemetery Scribes Project on March 2, 2010 at 2:09am — 1 Comment

Saviel Family in Burma.

Hi all I would like to know if anyone know of my Saviel Family in Burma from 1861 . they are my great grand father George Thomas Saviel and he was married in Burma in 1873 to Rose Hnin Si .

If you have any information on them let me know.

Yours

George T Saviel

gtsaviel@gmail.com

Added by George Thomas Saviel on March 1, 2010 at 8:55pm — No Comments

The Kindness of Strangers

A few weeks ago, I posted about Find a Grave.

One of the features they offers is a “Request a Photo” program. Users

of the website can volunteer to take headstone photographs and Find a

Grave keeps track of their locations. When another user requests a

photo from a particular cemetery, the website… Continue

Added by Tonia Kendrick on March 1, 2010 at 6:24pm — No Comments