Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico's Blog (293)

 La Quinta Inn at 150 Bonita Rd., off 805 S to the right, next to Denny's Rest.

$80 a night, mention CVGS, t 619 691 1211     f 619 427 0135 

If wanting to stay a couple more days let the manager know. MUST BE BOOKED BY 4 MARCH to get this price. contact society from web page for further data or call La Quinta Inn.

Come visit…

 I am posting  here some of the Urls shared during my hour + talk at the Lemon Grove Library to assist researchers.

urls shared:#1 usgenweb.org, state, county, town, court records, and cemeteries etc;

#2 worldgenweb.org covers Europe and Asia and the link for Mexico was not working last night;

 #3 familysearch.org  which has improved their sources tremendously in the last four years

;#4 www.cyndislist.com/, great…

 Irish Research Help, I have found and she has given permission to share this knowledge here.

 This is a really helpful site for Irish researchers.  It is the first of it's kind that I have found not saying there are not

  others out there.  Two main goals, I like them both.

  1. It is a free digital Genealogical Community. It publishes a digital magazine to share. It is 70 pages free of charge.

   2. The monthly contributors are a mix of professional…

 Chula Vista Genealogical Society is Presenting BUTCH HIBBEN

Wednesday, Jan 30 at 12 noon 

Library Auditorium

Chula Vista Civic Center Library 365 F St., Chula Vista, CA 

CREATING YOUR LIFE'S STORY

Presented By: Butch Hibben      

L. A. (Butch) Hibben, Certified Legacy Advisor, has been involved in the field of family…

                                     CVGS Spring Seminar:

           "Do Your Genes Fit?  Discover Your DNA"      

               Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 9am to 3pm

      

    Do you want to know all about DNA genetic testing and how it can help you learn about your…

CASPER ie KASPER,  From Rottweil on the Necktar region of Germanic region.

Antonio Casper came to Ohio,   and married a lady and had three boys, but he did this without release from wife and family in region listed above.  

Boys, William and John, and baby brother Samuel, lived with Mother at time of divorce in Cinncinati, OH 1852.

Daughter from above region wrote and told him not to come home due to his new arrangement, that his wife worked hard…

May your day have been joyous and fulfilling. May your new year be even better.

Remember your fellow man and we are all to treat each other as belonging to us.

We need to remember the Reason for the SEASON, not just the day, or the week or the month.

May our next year be genealogical fulfilling and family improving.  

Franklin was born 26 June 1860 Greene Co. PA and died June  1940 in Wheatland , Wyoming was carried back by train to Iowa for burial next to his wife. Mom was expecting me and she could not go. It broke her heart. 

Franklin Cornelius Hoffman, son of Sanford and Rachel Plants Hoffman raised three children:

Robert, Grace and Cecil Leroy. Their mother was Samantha Abigail DuVall, also born in PA near Franklin.

Mom always called him Grandpa Frank.  The  man…

Sanford HOFFMAN and Thomas H Neal (Phebe's husband)

U.S. Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976 Biographical and Genealogical History of Appanoose and Monroe

Counties , Ia. 

Pg 682 Ex-Soldiers Sailors and Marines

      West Virginia Continued

Name                                Rank                                 Co.            Present Post Office Address

Sanford Hoffman                Private                          …

Richard Higgins b England   1600

d  21 June 1675 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey Colony  m Lydia Chandler 1634 Mass

 m Mary Snow Yates(w) Oct 1651 Mass  b 1603 Mass

Jediah Higgins b 5 March 1655/6  Eastham, Mass

d 1715  , New Jersey

m Mary Newbold  b 23 May 1661 York England  m 12 May 1684 

d 1715     New Jersey

Jediah Higgins b 11 April 1691

d 19 Jan 1772 New Jersey

m Hannah Stout b 29 Mar…

Harriet Cynthia LEWIS SCOTT  b 1 May 1798 VA/NC border region? marries in 1815 in KY, to Shadrack SCOTT, b 22 Feb 1790 Pittsylvania, VA, dcd 11 Nov 1850 Henry Co. IA.

She passes 4 May 1887, Marion, Henry, IA, USA.

 VIRGINIA TIMELINE - Key dates to recall

 Maps>   http://www.wvgenweb.org/maps.html

 Choose key years, or use the link above to access all dates.

Map of 1617 of Virginia--- ten years after the first permanent settlement at Jamestowne

They had been in and out of area for almost 50 years already.

Augusta and Frederick Counties formed, what will become West Virginia…

Photographs, Aging and What to Do.

 Like this bolt of lightening that rippled between the clouds, this thought hit me.

 What is going to happen to our photographs? Especially the old inherited ones of the 1850's 1860's forward.

 Will someone in my family keep them or take them out and burn them?

 When my husbands' Grandmother passed, the family  dumped many photos into the yard and had a bonfire with all the things they did not…

Research and Where to Look

Research and where to look and no, I do not mean on line. At a recent event, in fact, two recent events we had attendees whom are still not on computers, or at least do not own one.

Yes, many of them are older and never were exposed to a Computer via school or work. Others were young, and could not yet afford the luxury of a computer. It is not a life need for many. They were learning to use Library computers.

Last fall…

CeCe Moore, DNA Professional to Speak Bonita-Sunnyside Library

CeCe Moore, DNA professional will be talking about DNA on 7 October from 1 to 3 P M at the Bonita-Sunnyside Library, Bonita, CA.  4375 Bonita Road Bonita, CA 91902 

CeCe Moore is coming to the Bonita-Sunnyside Library to talk on DNA. October 7th from 1 p m to 3 p…

California Research, A Great Site and Greater Resources 

Having recently found this site and shared information with Leslie Brinkley Lawson, Forensic Genealogist, and Speaker.

Wishing to share this information with those not already exposed.  It seems almost daily there is new  data to be found if one just goes looking.  

The real cool thing about this site is  it expands to other states. This is just highlighting the California Links given, some…

As of last week's update, the obituary index at the Schenectady

Digital History Archive now contains just under 89,000 citations.



a href="http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/vitalrecords/deaths/index.html">http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/vitalrecords/deaths/index.html>



In addition to current and historical Schenectady County newspapers,

the index also includes recent years of papers covering the counties

of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga,…