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May 2010 Blog Posts (55)

Who owns the genealogy companies? Part Three

Looking at the larger genealogy companies is an interesting challenge.

Publicly owned corporations (even if only part of the stock is owned by

the public) have a whole stack of legal rules to follow concerning

financial reporting and ownership. For example, Ancestry.com's reports

are on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website.… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 18, 2010 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Oooooooops - I didn't mean it like THAT

I was just on the phone to one of the largest cemeteries in the State, talking to the Gate House guard who handles deceased searches, and what do you know I did an oopsie! I said I was looking for a person called Abadee, died 1965 and according to gossip, not fact was buried at Fawkner. Now her husband Henry was definately there, I could find him on their web site, but her, nup! So he asked me her name and I said "I'm looking for a Fanny!" ............... hmmmm! He laughed, and… Continue

Added by Jo Kotylak on May 17, 2010 at 6:40pm — No Comments

Princess Ka’iulani Movie Update 2

I sometimes post some of the stories from my blog on the website GenealogyWise.com. I had almost stopped doing this when I received a message through GenealogyWise.com about the Essie Mott memoirs. This resulted in a lot of fun blogging connections and many blog posts, so I continue to post a few stories on GenealogyWise, just to see…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on May 17, 2010 at 2:29pm — No Comments

Scanning old film negatives

Among the thousands of photos I have been scanning for the past few years, I have accumulated a large number of negatives.

Those of you who are a little older may recall that when you took your

black and white film to be developed, you… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 17, 2010 at 8:37am — No Comments

John Edwards 1725

John Edwards, from Wales @1700-1710, settled near Perkiomen, Pa, not far from Philadelphia. That was 7 generations ago. 5 generations ago, the direct line ended up in Maryville, Mo

Added by Mark Taylor Edwards on May 16, 2010 at 8:13pm — No Comments

Who owns the genealogy companies? Part Two

It is very difficult to rank the size of genealogy companies because there is no real category in the business world for genealogy. In a real sense, the genealogy companies are all information and service

companies. They either sell a service, such as printing charts, or

information, like databases of source documents and indexes. Although

Ancestry.com is clearly the leader, second place is a little more

problematical since Ancestry.com has several large sub-brand names…

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Added by James Tanner on May 16, 2010 at 5:58pm — No Comments

Benjamin Hooton Philadelphia 1770s

Looking for any information about Benjamin Hooton, a Quaker, that was living in Philadelphia in the 1700s somehow ended up in Fredricksburg VA for a brief time. Trying to find info on his life in Philly. Any help would be appreciated. He was the son in law to John Head.

Thanks,

Sherry

Added by Sherry Miller on May 15, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Google Language Tools -- a boon to genealogists

Google announced enhancements to its Google Translate program called Google Language Tools.

You can type a search phrase in your own language, then Google Language

Tools will translate your search terms into the target language and

find results in the target language. Then translate the results back

into your own language for you to read. Google gives the following

example:…

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Added by James Tanner on May 15, 2010 at 5:09pm — No Comments

SMITH of Leicester, England

I'm back to the 18th Century w/three generations of Blacksmith's/Horseshoer's from the burough of Leicester in Leicestershire, England.

Added by B.C. Smith on May 15, 2010 at 7:32am — No Comments

Marriage/Divorce Records in St. Louis, MO

Can anyone tell me how to go about obtaining marriage and divorce records in St. Louis, MO? They are for the years 1925 thru 1939. Thank you!

Added by Danielle Weiner on May 14, 2010 at 11:29pm — 2 Comments

I am looking for information on my Grand-Uncle

My Grand-Uncle Alonzo Vanderhorst born around 1881 or 1884 relocated from Charleston SC to Brockton, Massachusetts sometime around 1910. The last bit of records that I found on him was World War II registration form for 1942. I also found him in the city directory for Brockton Mass in 1942. I sent money for a search for a death certificate 2 weeks ago, and have recieved no response. Anyone living in Brockton or maybe Boston can supply me with some answers to what ever happened to Alonzo…

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Added by Clyde Vanderhorst on May 14, 2010 at 8:02pm — No Comments

Who owns the genealogy companies? -- a comment

In my last post, I

talked about Ancestry.com. One of my readers pointed out that

Ancestry.com is now publicly

traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Underwriters for the deal included Morgan Stanley,

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Jefferies

& Co. and Piper Jaffray & Co. It will trade under… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 13, 2010 at 8:24am — No Comments

Are you related to the British Prime Minister?

When Gordon Brown stood down as British Prime Minister on Tuesday, HM the Queen asked David Cameron to form a new government, making him the 12th Prime Minister of her reign.

Many are now having fun working out if they are related to him, or to his wife Samantha, nee Sheffield. Both families are descended from nobility, and, indeed, from royalty.

Using my home software, Legacy, I find I am an 11th cousin, but my online genealogy…

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Added by William Douglas on May 13, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

Who owns the genealogy companies?

One of the trends of modern society is the centralization of the

production, transportation and sale of goods and services, particularly

information services, in larger and larger international corporations.

The Internet reflects the world at large in concentrating a lot of

resources under the control of a few very large organizations. Perhaps,

finding out who owns and runs these organizations and where they are

located would be an eye opener. To discover this… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 12, 2010 at 10:13pm — No Comments

Genealogy's Star among MyHeritage.com’s Top 100 Genealogy Sites

I have been having an interesting conversation with the representatives

of MyHeritage.com. As you can see from the

badge, Genealogy's Star was selected among the top

100 genealogy sites in the world. If you were to go back in my

archives, you would find that I have been… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 12, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Bushwhackers and Broken Hearts

Thanks to Mr. Sullivan for publishing the Civil War letters of his ancestor, John M. Barton.

Our families were brought together during the Civil War when both Barton and Moore served in the Co. K of the 33rd MO regiment. Barton died in May 1863, and as Sullivan states, "his letters were taken by a fellow soldier, Thomas Anderson Moore, to return to his people. But Moore was wounded and left for dead in the Confederate attack on Helena, Arkansas on 4 July 1863. In hospital in Memphis,… Continue

Added by P. Davidson-Peters on May 12, 2010 at 8:17am — No Comments

Londonderry School District Number Eight

I recently explored the Internet…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on May 11, 2010 at 4:33pm — No Comments

Doing Research in Real Time

In a presentation given by FamilySearch staff "Doing Research in Real

Time-An Exhilarating Collaboration Experience!" (F308), at the text" title="http://www.ngsgenealogy.org" rel="nofollow"">National

Genealogical Society 2010 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. ,

presented by… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 11, 2010 at 11:11am — No Comments

Remembering MOM, her birthday is Coming

Her birthday is coming the end of June.

She is the downline genes of: Scott, Hoffman/Huffman, Warden, Langdon, Brammer, Lewis, Duvall, Plants, Strosnider, Stollar, Ealy Ely, Haines, HIggins, Stout, Stout, Duvall, Rolfe, Fuller, Morrow, Tuttle,

McCune, Hayes ?, LEE, BURGESS, and WARD, FRYE and others,…

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Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on May 10, 2010 at 5:06pm — No Comments