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Heritage Hunters Celebrates Hulmeville's 150th Anniversary of Incorporation

There is a new episode of Heritage Hunters available! In March, 2022, Hulmeville Borough in Pennsylvania celebrated their Sesquicentennial Anniversary of incorporation. We talk with Joe Coleman about the history of Hulmeville, the Hulme family, and the celebratory events coming up this summer and fall! https://youtu.be/EIol68b1P18…

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Added by Barbara Jean May on July 1, 2022 at 5:17am — No Comments

Quaker Genealogy-Cedar Creek, Virginia

Nestled on a wooded knoll surrounded by periwinkle lies the remains of a 300-year-old structure that once was the Cedar Creek Meeting House. Established in 1721 from land donated by Thomas Stanley, the site lies west of an old 18th-century roadbed in Hanover County, Virginia. The church site is now on an old, abandoned road just off Cedar Creek Road. The cemetery, filled with field stones, holds the remains of early congregation members. This article will recognize the early members by…

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Added by Carol @Piedmont Trails on May 18, 2022 at 4:23pm — No Comments

Who's the Informant?

Once we verify the type of source we are looking at we need to evaluate the information found in that source. Then, after all of the information, we have obtained from our sources has been evaluated and analyzed, it becomes evidence to help answer a research question.

According to the Evidence Analysis Process Map, information is based on the informant’s knowledge of the event and whether that knowledge is primary, secondary, or undetermined.…

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Added by Angela Rodesky on November 20, 2018 at 10:30am — No Comments

Incorporating Social History Into Family History

By Sandy Fackler, PLCGS (student) with The National Institute for Genealogical Studies

When I first started doing genealogy I collected names, dates, and places. I was a genealogist. Years later I became a family historian. Besides those names, dates and places, I wanted to know the what, when, where, and how. I needed the meat on the bones.…

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Added by Angela Rodesky on November 14, 2018 at 12:30pm — No Comments

The Salt Of The Earth – about Sebastião Salgado

The Salt Of The Earth – about Sebastião Salgado

Last week I watched the documentary “The Salt of the Earth” about documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado. This is one of those films that I can’t stop thinking about, which is a good thing.

For those that aren’t familiar with Salgado’s work, he is a Brazilian photojournalist and social photographer that has traveled the world photographing indigenous cultures and the social effects of major geo-political actions on these…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on August 23, 2015 at 9:17pm — No Comments

“I wish I had met you…”

For the past few weeks I have been involved in a back and forth phone tag with a potential client.

Each time he’s called me, I returned the call, and each time I called, he was  busy and told me he would get back to me. A couple weeks ago he asked me to send him some more information about my work so I sent him a flyer, and links to several video clips and testimonials. But we never actually had “the conversation” about…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on January 31, 2015 at 11:44am — No Comments

When Is Your Memory Truly Forgotten?

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”  — Banksy

While this quote was directly attributed to the graffiti artist Banksy, the sentiment is not his alone and appears all over the place, attributed to…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on January 14, 2015 at 10:03pm — No Comments

Hong Kong Police History

2014 is the 170th. Anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Police.

The Governor of Hong Kong wanted experienced men and 3 officers from the East End of London were recruited  from the Metropolitan Police in 1844.  Their story - plus other 19th.…

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Added by Christine Thomas on September 5, 2014 at 5:18am — No Comments

Hong Kong Census - Colonial Ancestors

Annual population statistics were provided in Hong Kong throughout the 19th. and early 20th. century.  Unfortunately, these do not provide the detailed information sought by today's genealogists.…

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Added by Christine Thomas on August 22, 2014 at 12:43pm — No Comments

My Documentary Screening at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Sunday May 18, 2014 was the first public screening of my documentary, “Martin Elkort: An American Mirror” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It showed to a crowd of about 200 people, which is an terrific turn out for an early Sunday evening, on a graduation weekend.

Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Gus and Lyndal Wortham Curator of Photography, gave a wonderful opening speech where she helped the audience to create a context of what it was like to be a photographer during that time period…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on May 23, 2014 at 6:50pm — No Comments

“The Great Beauty” And The Small Moments In Our Own Lives

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of watching La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), an epic Italian film in the style of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, but with more cinematic greatness achieved by the advances in technology since the 1960s as well as a more existential examination of life. It was truly captivating and I am planning on a second viewing next week as the MFAH is bringing it back for an…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on January 21, 2014 at 12:03pm — No Comments

My Reality of Attending a School Reunion

I recently attended my 40th class school reunion out in Southern California. There was a whirlwind of activities, two parties on a Friday night, the real reunion on Saturday night and then a brunch picnic the following Sunday morning. I didn’t attend the brunch, choosing instead to have breakfast with a small group of woman I have known since I was a very young girl. It was a good choice. It allowed us an intimate time to reflect on our lives and the past two days, and I didn’t want to…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on October 30, 2013 at 5:52pm — No Comments

Diane C. Loosle Named Director of World Renowned Family History Library



August 21, 2013 - SALT LAKE CITY-FamilySearch today announced that Diane C. Loosle is the new director of its flagship Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. She will have the responsibility of leveraging the skills of the…
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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 23, 2013 at 8:53am — No Comments

Our Family History

Make sure that your children and grandchildren pass on the stories of your parents and grandparents to their children and grand children.  I was interesting to learn that 'Grand' who was my mom's grandmother practically raised her, her siblings and first cousins.

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Added by Floyd Montgomery on April 27, 2013 at 7:30am — No Comments

2013 British Institute Details Announced

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on April 5, 2013 at 8:03am — No Comments

Legacy Multimedia Featured In The New York Times Article on Video Biography

This week an article about the process of immortalizing one’s memories made it to a special Retirement section in the New York Times. My company, Legacy Multimedia, was prominently featured along with other projects and organizations that focus on the preservation of physical mementos and recording of memoirs.

For me, this is incredible validation of the work I do. The excitement I feel working with each new client, discovering who they…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on March 20, 2013 at 1:05pm — No Comments

February 2013 Updates at Texas - Trails To The Past

There was not much activity for the state in February. The month was filled with a lot of personal stuff. I also spent time helping a friend begin her family research. Please keep an eye on the Guerrero – Vasquez Family History page under “Family Research” on the Texas home page. I am excited about this project because it is my first project related to researching families of Hispanic, African American, Native American, Chinese, Japenese,…
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Added by Charlie Vines on March 1, 2013 at 1:54am — No Comments

Texas - Trails To The Past Updates for January 2013.

Hello Everyone,



For the month of January 2013 we had 79 visitors to the state page.



Additions and Updates to the state site are:



The Texas home page ( ultimately the county pages) at TTTP has moved from the rootsweb.com server to the parent server for TTTP. Please see the link for Texas below.



State of Texas –…
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Added by Charlie Vines on February 2, 2013 at 3:18am — No Comments

2013 Resolution – Time to Get That Personal History Done!

2013 marks the 10 year anniversary of Legacy Multimedia. It will be later this fall and I will commemorate the decade in a fitting manner…. later.

Right now, with the new year, and this huge blank slate of time before me, I want to focus on my new mantra regarding my own personal history, “get ‘er done!” (Since I live in Texas, I can talk to myself in cowboy language.)

Right about the time that I was starting Legacy Multimedia, I also started the long and complex process of…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on January 4, 2013 at 5:04pm — No Comments

Danish Cultural Perceptions Toward Oral History

Last week I was at an annual conference for the Association of Personal Historians in St. Louis, Missouri. This is my fourth conference to attend, and one of the highlights for me is catching up with people from all over the world that I communicate with regularly but don’t get to see in person all too often, as well as meeting new historians and learning about the work that they are up to.

This year I had the pleasure of having dinner with a Danish woman. She told me about a long…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on October 31, 2012 at 12:57pm — No Comments

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