William Douglas's Blog – March 2010 Archive (4)

I went searching for an ancestor, I cannot find him still.

He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will.

He married where a courthouse burned, he mended all his fences.

He avoided any man who came, to take the local Census.



He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame,

And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name.

His parents came from England, they should be on some list,

but for unknown reasons, somehow they got… Continue

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In their recent newsletter - and if you don't subscribe, you should - Rootsweb has an excellent article on the conventions for naming children. Continue

MyHeritage.com, the company that connects families to their past and to one another, today announced a significant expansion of its global family network through the acquisition of the Hamburg-based OSN Group, which operates a network of 10 market-leading family sites, including Verwandt.de (Germany), Moikrewni.pl (Poland) and Dynastree.com (USA).



MyHeritage.com now holds a formidable international registered member base of 47 million, and offers its services in 35 languages. The… Continue