August 2010 Blog Posts (55)

I am trying to document my Burris line for the DAR. I have two grand parents who lived most of their lives in Kentucky, but both died in Tennessee in the hospital nearest their home. Which state do I send to looking for their death certificates? Any help will be appreciated.

This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii. We hadn’t done much research on the past two days, so this day was back to work day! We had another 10 AM appointment for a guided tour at Iolani Palace. It is necessary to make reservations for guided tours ahead of time, but my cousin and her nine year old grandson were able to secure tickets to join us.…

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The former Colonial Cemetery in Happy Valley…

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I was an awful note taker at the university and in law school.

Especially in law school, I would watch the other students scribble

furiously in their notebooks, so I would copy their behavior and write

copious notes from every class. There was just one problem, when I got

home and went back through my notes, they were absolutely meaningless.

It was not that I couldn't write legibly, it was just that whatever I

wrote down made no sense. I finally got to the point of… Continue

Two hundred years ago, my Hemphill relatives were all in the Burke/Buncombe county area in North Carolina.

Captain Thomas Hemphill (1746-1826), my 5x (twice) and 6x great-grandfather, lived in Burke County, North Carolina in 1810. On April 4, 1808, he entered a grant for 300 acres lying on both sides of the French Broad river in Buncombe . . . → : …

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This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii. On this day, Hubby woke up extra early to swim at Waikiki Beach whilst I slept late. I missed another opportunity to swim in the Pacific Ocean. Then we drove east past Diamond Head, the Halona Blow Hole, the Makapu’u Lighthouse and Hanamuma Bay. This side of the island was dry and rocky, and the mountains look decidedly…

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This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii. Since we had been so busy doing my genealogy research, it was time for my hubby to choose the day’s activities. He decided to go to Pearl Harbor, since it was Sunday, and most museums and archives would be closed. Several taxi drivers and hotel staff had told us to arrive extra early in the morning, since…

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Notes from My Legacy file:

Name: Ephriam Coon



Parents: Henry Abel Coon and Mary Ann Silas

Life Range: 22 Feb 1794 - 29 Dec 1868

Age:



Marriage: _______________. Marana Knapp ( -1908).

1794 Feb 22 Birth: New York, Ontario County, Mendon Township, Honeoye Falls Village.

20 1814 Son born (#7): _______________. Milton Coon (1814-1904). Died in 1904.

22 1816 Son born (#8): _______________. Leander Coon (1816- ).

Unknown Spouse: _______________.… Continue

This is the latest assignment for ProGen Study group. Hopefully, I will have a list by month end. I found that several of the books listed in Professional Genealogy (except three) were at my local genealogy library. Some of these I can check out and others I need to read at the library. They have an exceptional collection of Local Genealogical society publications which I can search with PERSI.

Anna Maria (Keller) Albright is buried in the Old Brick Church Cemetery in Alamance (formerly Guilford) County, North Carolina. I read only a few words of German, so I’m taking the data from the inscription on faith. Anna was born 11 Nov 1733, possibly in Pennsylvania or Switzerland. She died 10 Jun 1803.…

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Share your family stories before it is too late. That’s my motto in a nutshell. I believe everyone has a story to tell. It’s just a matter of digging deep to find those memories. Of course, proof is in the puddin’ - alright, no more tacky clichés - I'm about to issue you a challenge:

• Grab a pen and paper.
• Number your paper from 1 – 13.…

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In the BYU Continuing Education announcement of the Conference on Family

History and Genealogy recently concluded, the senior product manager

for FamilySearch, Daniel C. Lawyer, was scheduled to present "The Future of FamilySearch (Something Big is Coming Soon)"

Although there were a lot of comments about a presentation by Curt B.

Witcher on the coming Dark Ages of Genealogy and a few news accounts of

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This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii for the past two weeks. I’m skipping over the cruise we took for seven days (you can read a short version in yesterday’s post) and recounting our days on the island of Oahu. We checked into another hotel on Waikiki beach, and then immediately rented a car to get to the Bishop…

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This is a continuation of story of my family history related trip to Hawaii for the past two weeks. Our first day was full of meeting “new” cousins and seeing historic sites related to the Dominis family and Queen Lili’uokalani. This next day we checked out of our hotel on Waikiki Beach, Oahu to board a cruise ship to see the islands of Maui, Hawaii and Kauai. This was the vacation part of the trip,…

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In a recent comment to my statement about old royal pedigree, Martin said,

It's an incorrect opinion. You've confused two things. I don't believe in lines going back to Adam either. However, I can verify using modern genealogical standards, my line back to medieval

royalty and that royalty back to the early dark ages (about 400-600

A.D.). So it is real genealogy and real history.

Given Martin's expertise in genealogy, it is highly likely that his… Continue