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Hmmm. Somebody in China noticed that women had something important to do with the genealogy. Sure took ‘em a long time to notice…
JINAN, July 25 (Xinhua) — Confucius, who looked down upon women, probably never expected that his female descendants would eventually be included in his Family Tree, which for generations has ignored the second […]
The following excerpt is from Damon Veach’s column this week:
The Amite County Historical and Genealogical Society is now taking orders for the purchase of a reprint of the WPA material compiled for Amite County, Miss., as a Works Progress Administration project in 1936-1939. The Amite County material was considered Volume III of the statewide compilation […]
The following excerpt is from a column written about the Wayne County [Indiana] Genealogical Society by Rachel E. Sheeley.
The Wayne County Genealogical Society is busy compiling a booklet for the Richmond Celebrates Bicentennial. The booklet will have short sketches about prominent people and businesses in Richmond.
The group also is planning a fund-raising rummage sale […]
New Book Announcement:
Based on years of extensive research conducted in Wales, this work consists of genealogical notices of Welsh emigrants to Pennsylvania, mainly between 1682 and 1700. Alphabetically arranged, it relates to nearly 300 families and 2,000 individuals, with pedigrees and charts of the first arrivals.
A sampling of the surnames covered in the lineages includes: […]
Current residents, former residents and those with ancestors in the county are all encouraged to submit stories about their families and life in Okaloosa County to be included in a second volume of Heritage of Okaloosa County, Florida: A Grassroots Family Histories Collection.
Also wanted are stories on churches, schools, cemeteries, businesses, memories, clubs, […]
The following excerpt is from Roanne Moore Saucier’s column in the July 24, 2006 edition of the Bangor Daily News. It seems that 11 Maine historical societies coordinated an event for next weekend. Is this some kind of record or what? It’s nice to see the groups working together to further historical awareness. Cool…
“Touring Through […]
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The full title of this book is: Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory from Advertisements in German Newspapers Published in Philadelphia and Germantown, 1743-1800
This unusual compilation laid in typescript in the library of the Germantown Historical Society since 1935, until it was published by the Genealogical […]
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) — Experts at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C., have confirmed that a World War II submarine wreck found in the Gulf of Thailand last year is USS Lagarto (SS 371).
Underwater archeologists at the center completed their examination of evidence obtained in June by Navy divers from USS Salvor (ARS […]
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Mass immigration to the U.S. was nowhere more apparent than in the immigration of the irish between 1815 and the failure of the potato crop in 1845/1846, during which time a million irish men and women crossed the seas to take up permanent residence in America. This work is concerned with the roots […]
Waldviertel or “Forest Quarter,” is a picturesque semi-mountainous region less than an hour’s drive west of Vienna, Austria. According to the website, “The Waldviertel is bordered on the south by the Danube or Donau River, which served as a lifeline for much of Central Europe. Castles dot its landscape and point to a former age […]
BOSTON - Thousands of black men fought for American independence during the Revolutionary War, yet their contributions rarely appear in modern history books.
Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Sons of the American Revolution are hoping to change that with an ambitious project to identify those soldiers and their descendants.
“My first goal with […]
Decades after it was written, the “History of Barbour County, Alabama” has been published. Unfortunately, the author, Lewy Dorman is not alive to see his dream become a reality.
Dorman, a scholar and historian, died in 1965. But before his death, he took the book’s manuscript along with other papers and placed them in the care […]
Some years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that repository of the world’s largest collection of genealogical data, did Australia the great public service of collating a five-volume family history of the Prime Minister, John Howard.
The information was collected from information stored in vast sealed granite vaults overlooking the Utah capital, Salt […]
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During the 18th century as many as 100,000 Scottish Lowlanders relocated to the Plantation of Ulster (Northern ireland). Within a few generations the descendants of these Ulster Scots emigrated in substantial numbers across the Atlantic, where, as the Scotch-irish (Scots-irish), they made a major contribution to the settlement and development of colonial America.
This […]
As you folks know, I finally got out a copy of the Everton Newsline a few days ago. Included in the Newsline was a request for address and contact information changes and additions that need to be made in the next Directory of Societies, Libraries and Archives. I had a wonderful response from that request […]
I see that Grassley and Baucus have decided to go after health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and his family, by way of a very public demand of the Bush administration to close a “tax loophole.” It seems that one of the places that Leavitt used funds from the Dixie and Anne Leavitt […]
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In this much longer sequel to his earlier collection of Scots-irish Links, Parts One & Two, David Dobson sheds more light on a segment of the 100,000 Scotsmen who were re-settled by the British government in the irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17th century. Drawing upon primary source material in the British […]
James Savage was known as an antiquary, an expert of antiquities. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1784; he died there in 1873. He was descended from Major Thomas Savage, who came to Massachusetts from England in 1635. After graduation From Harvard in 1803, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and served […]
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According to some estimates as many as 100,000 Scotsmen were re-settled by the British government in the irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17th century. After the turn of the next century, the descendants of many of these Ulster Scots, better known as the Scotch-irish, would play a major role in diversifying the […]