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What is a blog carnival?

Anyone who has been following me or my group GeneaBloggers here on Genealogy Wise will know that I post several events each month including blog carnivals.

I often need to be reminded that - just because I've been blogging about my genealogy research and family history for almost three years now - not everyone is familiar with the concept of a blog carnival. So here is my attempt at an… Continue

Added by Thomas MacEntee on July 14, 2009 at 9:00am — 5 Comments

Over 1700 new items added to Family History Archives

Read about the new additions to the Family History Archive on

Genealogy's Star

Added by James Tanner on July 14, 2009 at 8:54am — No Comments

Appleton

Changes have been made to:
Appleton's, Wilkinson's & Young's

Added by Bob Hutchins on July 14, 2009 at 8:42am — No Comments

Research is boring, but rewarding

I'm Michael Lamka of the Ohio part of the clan. I've been actively searching for family roots since about Family Tree Maker V2.0. My last version was 10, decided I was not entirely happy with the reviews on the newer versions so tried some free/trial downloads of other software and finally settled on Legacy 7.0 Deluxe.

I signed up for this social network in hopes of receiving assistance and creating a strictly genealogicol place for my siblings and other relatives to keep track of… Continue

Added by M Lamka on July 14, 2009 at 8:41am — No Comments

Finding People when you weren't even looking :)

I was doing some genealogy for a co worker and came upon some of my own. My mother had 3 sisters. I found out where two of them were buried. And a nice kind person wrote the obits for them on the web site WWW.FindaGrave.com. He was not related or anything just a kind person who loves doing genealogy. And maybe helping out a person or two. So from this information I now knew my aunts family. Or should I say their names at least. So being the growing detective that I am. I did searches on Myspace… Continue

Added by Darlene Krause on July 14, 2009 at 8:39am — No Comments

Database Updates

I shall use this blog to list the latest updates

Added by Bob Hutchins on July 14, 2009 at 8:37am — No Comments

Live Roots also available as a Facebook App

The Live Roots for Facebook application includes all of the same features as the website, PLUS it allows you to easily share your discoveries with friends and family. Once you add the application, you'll be able to Search, Discover and Navigate around Live Roots, and also invite your Facebook friends to add the application, as well as, share resources from your search results that others may be interested in.

Check it out:… Continue

Added by Illya Daddezio on July 14, 2009 at 8:33am — 1 Comment

Looking for BREADMOREs everywhere

I have been researching the BREADMORE surname and families for nearly twenty years, along with the many variants including BREDMORE, BREADMAN, BREDMAN and BRADMORE. If you have any of these names, or their varients, in your ancestry or would like to know more about the name maybe I can help you.

Want to know more? Then visit the BREADMORE One-Name Study web site or contact me at breadmore@one-name.org

Added by Andrew Young for Margaret Young on July 14, 2009 at 7:34am — No Comments

Two Ways To Independence

Up here in the frozen north we take great pains to point out the differences in how Canadians and Americans approach things. No better example is in how each country gained independence from Great Britain.

In the United States the people grabbed their muskets and shot at the British. In Canada we grabbed our lawyers and threw them at the British. Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British were quite use to people grabbing muskets , guns, spears , or whatever was laying… Continue

Added by William Bruce Hillman on July 14, 2009 at 6:59am — No Comments

Genealogy - The Perfect Avocation for an Armchair Detective

I have wondered many times what it is about genealogy research that is so appealing to me. It's more than just knowing the names of ancestors, more even than finding out their individual stories. There's something in the thrill of the hunt, of piecing together all the pieces, reading between lines, following the slightest clue and having it pan out, and the elation that follows when your search is finally culminated and your answer is found.

Except that every answer only open new… Continue

Added by Katrina Haney on July 14, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Hardin info

This was written by the late Ms. Lily E. Hardin.

I am searching for information on Smauel Turner Hardin, father of my husband, Samuel Lorenzer Hardin, born December 14, 1910 in Ashley County, Portland, Arkansas.

Samuel Turner Hardin was 35 years old and he married Alice Iva (Ivey) Jones 20 years old on March 6, 1910 in Ashley County, Portland, Arkansas.

He was a railroad employee at the time - also did taxidermy work on the side - I was told.

He had 2… Continue

Added by Jennifer Dempsey on July 13, 2009 at 11:07pm — No Comments

Now That's Art!!!

I found this cool website, where you can purchase your own DNA art.

Paste the following into your browser:

http://www.mygeneimage.com

Added by CHASTITY on July 13, 2009 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

I'm From A Small Town

I come from a small town. I like it that way.

My dad's parents moved here with him and my aunts when my dad was a toddler. Most of their relatives were still in Pennsylvania, except a couple of my grandma's siblings. They moved her mother up here a few years later, into the house that would later belong to my parents, where I was born. (Well, where I lived when I was born. I was born in a hospital.)

My mom's family, on the other hand, has lived in the same small nearby town for 150… Continue

Added by Tara Pfarner on July 13, 2009 at 8:58pm — No Comments

Finally - I found them - sort of

Actually, it's more than a sort of.

My search goal at the Family History Library in Salt Lake for today was to find out something (anything) on Jacob Swartz and his wife Gertrude. I knew that he was born around 1798 in Prussia; immigrated in 1843 via Rotterdam with 3 children and no wife; married Gertrude in Ohio before 1847, when their first son, John was born; and died between 1855 (when the last child was born) and 1860 (when Gertrude and the kids are living with her new husband,… Continue

Added by Merryann Palmer on July 13, 2009 at 7:35pm — 3 Comments

Where to Write for Vital Records (US, Foreign and even High Seas!)

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has posted online a wonderful guide, alphabetically by state, giving all the information you would need to send away for birth, marriage, death or divorce records located in any of the United States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Canal Zone District of Columbia, "Foreign", or those occuring on the High Seas. The listings tell what years are available, and not available, and what all you will need to submit along with your request.… Continue

Added by tami osmer glatz on July 13, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

African Ancestored Genealogy Research - Mrs. Emeline Jeter

This is my 2nd Great Grandmother.

I'm blessed to have inherited this Tintype from my Dad.

Also, I'm thankful to the Bradford County Historical Society of Pennsylvania for sending me the obituary a number of years ago. It reads:

-Mrs. John (Emma)Jeter, a colored woman aged 81 years, died in this borough last week and was buried from the colored church, the service being conducted by Rev. Mr. Smith.

She was a slave at… Continue

Added by George Geder on July 13, 2009 at 6:20pm — 8 Comments

African Ancestored Genealogy - John R. Jeter

Here's my 2nd Great Grandfather, John R. Jeter.

His Obituaries reads:

"Bradford Republic; March 21, 1893

-Death of a Venerable Colored man.

Some twenty-five or thirty years ago, soon after the proclamation of emancipation was issued by Abraham Lincoln, there came to Towanda, we think from Virginia, John R. Jeeder, a colored man, formerly a plantation slave.

He was a tall, boney man of powerful physique, with the habits,… Continue

Added by George Geder on July 13, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

When you start losing whole counties, it's time to buy some software

Earlier this week, I noticed someone had linked on their GeneologyWise to Adams County, Illinois. And I thought, "Hey! I've got someone in Adams County, Illinois! Wait. Who do I have in Adams County, Illinois?" Which sent me on a fifteen minute quest to figure out what was up with Adams County.

(For the record, my great-grandmother, Mabel Bennett, lived there for about seven years of her childhood, and the family still had connections there once they moved across the border to… Continue

Added by Jessica Hammond on July 13, 2009 at 4:12pm — 1 Comment

German Ancestors

I have been browsing the members section and it seems that pretty much everyone I come across, including myself, has a German country to search or are connected to Germany in some way. I wonder why this is?What are your thoughts on the subject?

Anyhow, let me tell me why I am interested in Germany. My great-great-grandmother, Jalie Caroll was born to a German mother(identity unknown), and a Black father(Mr. Walter Carroll). She then came to the states and met and married my… Continue

Added by CHASTITY on July 13, 2009 at 3:35pm — 5 Comments

Reconnect with your past this past Fourth

By Nancy Calhoun

July 4th often brings to mind traditions of flags, parades, fireworks, picnics, and many family reunions. Family reunions are an excellent way to make connections with other family members and to gather genealogical information. They may range from a hot dog roast in the local park on a Sunday afternoon to a lengthy cruise to another country.

Many families have a long tradition of an annual reunion. My grandmother's family has gathered bi-annually for… Continue

Added by John Rampton on July 13, 2009 at 2:48pm — 1 Comment