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February 02, 2012



 

 

BRIGHTSOLID ENTERS US GENEALOGY MARKET WITH GROUND-BREAKING PAY-AS-YOU-GO

SITE CENSUSRECORDS.COM

 

• First pay-as-you-go site offers greater choice and affordability

 

• Launching later this year, brightsolid’s flagship US site findmypast.com

 

 

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. brightsolid, a leading online provider of historical

and genealogical content, today announces its entry into the US genealogy

market with the…

This is a one day event. It is an all day event.  I truly believe it is going to be the best of the best because of the topics and whom our speakers are.…

A humorous look at genealogy types on my blog at Wordpress.com

http://wp.me/p1bnNB-72

It’s been a tremendous last few months here at RootsMagic. We’ve been busy with the new releases of Personal Historian 2 and RootsMagic 5. We're…

RootsTech Conference Will Broadcast Select Sessions Free Online

SALT LAKE CITY—RootsTech, a leading family history and technology conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2-4, 2012, announced today that fourteen of its popular sessions will be broadcasted live and complimentary over the Internet. The live broadcasts…

n my recent acts of desperation in trying to find information on my ggrandfather Francis Slavin (not the boxer), I stumbled across in the 1891 returns Frank Slavin in Census District 30 (Molong), Subdistrict E30 Eugowra, Ashburnham at a locality of Longs Corner. He seems to have been by himself by the census records.



Does anyone know anything about Longs Corner and the Eugowra area. Does the area have mines or workings etc because I know the 1890s were a time of…

One of my blog readers recently wrote asking me about the best way to share photos with family members who are far away. She was interested in having family members help her identify people in her photos but was hesitant to put the photos in the mail, fearing they may not be returned. This is a pretty important thing to be fearful of and many of my clients have reported losing photos to well-meaning family members. My grandmother was notorious in our family for coming over while we were out…

Little is known about Samuel Jacob Gould’s early life.  He was born in 1778 in Connecticut during the middle of the American Revolution.  He said that he enlisted in the War of 1812 and that he fought pirates off the Barbary Coast of Africa.  Around 1818 he married Sarah Childs (called Sally) who was born on May 4, 1798 in Medina, Orleans, New York.  Sally and Samuel’s family of four boys and three girls was Maria, born on July 13, 1819 in Stafford, Genesse, New York; John…

HSJGS%20Seminar%202012.pdf

Noted Genealogy Speakers, Gene Philabert Ortega and Joel Weintraub will be the featured speakers at the HSJGS annual Seminar to be held Saturday 11 Feb 2012  at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham, Hemet, CA.  The 1940 Census will be one of the Interesting Subjects…

 Genealogy Chat

 Today I logged on and found many of my old friends and distant kin right here in this chat program on GenealogyWise.

 It was fun for we shared links and data and names.  We find we have new names we can compare. Of course we have not chatted in a few years so our lines now go back farther. Be interesting to see if some of the newer names find we are  linked distantly also.

Some of the urls shared by cousins of old this morning…

My Country

.... I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains,

Of ragged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding rains.

I love her far horizons,

I love her jewel-sea,

Her beauty and her terror -

The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest

All tragic to the moon,

The sapphire-misted mountains,

The hot gold hush of noon.

Green tangle of the brushes,

Where lithe lianas coil,

And orchids deck the…

Hello Fellow Genealogy Enthusiasts,

Hello Everyone!  I am new today to this website.  I am looking for anyone out there researching the surname Burnup.  I have many relatives that were in Ontario, Canada  and upstate New York that have been traced back to London, England in late 1780's.  I am at a roadblock here and feel that only through others may I go back any further in  y family history.  Great project for the cold gloomy winter months here in Michigan!

Part 2 of a series about capturing the joy of family events on video

Last week I introduced this series about creating videos to capture the joy of family events and special occasions like weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and holiday get-togethers. Now let’s delve a bit deep into the process by discussing the first of four main phases used in multimedia productions – concepting / script writing.

First, try to develop a concept that really captures the spirit…

(Also published at Wordpress.com

I would love to say that this post is an original idea, but that isn't true. It was inspired by a blog at Quora.com.

Chris Wake wrote a very effective post on the subject, which you can read here. I've only adapted these great points  to apply to genealogists.

1. Consuming more than you…

Cemeteries--09.jpg, a photo by Randall Dickerson on Flickr.

Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. This cross is…

(Also posted at: http://wp.me/p1bnNB-50 on wordpress.com)

OK folks, here's the first update for my New Year's Resolution Concepts.

Resolution Concepts 1.    Do less.

Pretty easy one here, since I haven't posted a blog in several days! (grin) And my twitter-time is reduced by choice as well. This is because of high-priority items.

2.    Do more.

I'm on the 2nd full…

This link I found to be a really good read.  For those who have not understood the differences and the reason for the differences of two English speaking peoples, this is very insightful for both the Australian and American reader.

http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/yankaussie.htm