It’s like a blog done on a typewriter.
Page after page of farm notes, the day’s news, offbeat poems, horseshoe scores, visitors to the farm, literature reviews, profiles and more, all typed around hand-drawn illustrations.
The vivid newsletters from the 1920s and 1930s came to life when Burford veterinarian Chris Crombie cleaned out the damp and cluttered […]
By taking just a minute or two and checking the Gas Prices at the MSN Autos website, you can save some money - to spend on that spendy genealogy book you saw a while back…
The MSN Autos website receives price data on over 90,000 gas stations nationwide every night. So all you have to do […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this five-volume set of books is: Genealogies of Virginia Families From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine
Dense with documentation and editorial content, the William and Mary College Quarterlys contributions in the field of family history established it as the fountainhead of Virginia genealogy. In the two […]
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The Tehama County Genealogical and Historical Society has recently released the 2006 edition of “Tehama County Memories.” It is the biggest to date.
The 96-page book features numerous family stories as told by those who experienced them. Past publications have focused more on the county itself but since 2006 marks Tehama County’s 150th birthday, the Genealogical […]
Wills from Tudor to Victorian times are to go online, thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to Durham University, and they are seeking volunteers.
People all over the world will soon be able to access the wills of their North East ancestors online thanks to Durham University Library securing a £274,500 grant from […]
In 1758, a group of American Indian chiefs signed a land deed with New Jersey colonists to everyone’s “joy and mutual satisfaction.”
The controversy kicked in nearly 250 years later.
Believing that it owned the document, the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society was writing out invitations to its March unveiling when the State of New Jersey […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: Merion in the Welsh Tract With Sketches of the Townships of Havorford and Radnor - Historical and Genealogical Collections Concerning the Welsh Barony in the Province of Pennsylvania Settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682.
This is the history and genealogy of the Great Welsh Tract […]
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According to some, when chasing dead relatives in cemeteries, be very kind to the toads…
Ive been working on our familys genealogy for several years, and when I get a chance, I like to check out old cemeteries where I know ancestors are buried.
A few years ago, there was a gathering of Schenck descendants in Montgomery […]
New Book Announcement:
This is a scholarly and informative account of the origin and settlement of the counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, Goochland, Hanover, King William, King and Queen, Louisa, New Kent, and Orange, and of the people and events associated with their history. It was from these counties, constituting a narrow corridor extending […]
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I’ve blogged the BYU Family History and Genealogy Conference before, but it can’t hurt to plug it again. This is the premier genealogy event in Utah this summer.
Family history novices and experts will meet at the BYU Conference Center Aug. 1-4, 2006, for the 38th annual Family History and Genealogy Conference.
This year’s conference is themed […]
You never know what you might find in the trash…
Hoskins said he discovered a 188-year-old King James Bible. Now he’s fending off offers approaching $1,000 for the find.
“I go up there all the time to drop off my household trash, and there it was,” Hoskins told the Danville Register & Bee. “There were three or […]
New book Announcement:
Under the first charter of the Massachusetts Colony, only freemen of the Colony had the right to vote or hold public office. Such were admitted freemen who could fulfill the requirements of the Freeman’s Oath in matters of church membership and state allegiance. Between 1630 and 1691, some 4,500 men were admitted freemen, […]
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The following is a teaser from an extensive article written by Jackie Burrell. I found the article to be revealing and of interest to me - as a Genealogist.
IT SOUNDS like a script for a Hollywood movie or some new reality show — a granite vault stacked with precious books and more than a million […]
The Swiss are having a holiday on Ellis Island this weekend. I rather wish I’d heard about this earlier. I would like to have attended. I too, have Swiss roots…
New York (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) July 27, 2006 — International pop star Jewel will put her Swiss roots on display with a performance at […]
According to a short article in the Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake County, Utah Death records 1847-1949, and births as early as 1890 have been digitized and will be online in about a year.
…Salt Lake County has partnered with the Genealogical Society of Utah to make digital copies of more than 100,000 of the county’s […]
New Book Announcement:
Although the oldest regiment in the British Army is the 1st Royal regiment of Foot, usually known as the Royal Scots, it was not until the French and Indian War (known in Europe as the Seven Years War) that Scottish regiments played a significant role in the Army. In fact, between 1756 and […]