You can now check the marriage indexes for Multnomah County, Oregon - 1855 through 1904 - Online and order copies of the original documents (by mail) - and the docs are only $5!
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon Library is the home to many of the original Multnomah County marriage books & indexes. When the […]
In playing a bit more at the WorldVitalRecords.com website, I see that besides the 77 millon Social Security Death Index items, the site also has three other indexes that I didn’t comment on.
Note that the searches are done in the boxes found at the top of the home page. It’s easy to skim right over […]
New Book Announcement:
This book and Marriages of Wilkes County, North Carolina 1778-1868 are part of a series of volumes dealing with the marriage records of North Carolina counties. Marriages of Surry County contains abstracts of all extant marriage bonds and licenses for the period 1779 until 1868 when bonds, as prerequisites for licenses, were discontinued. […]
Anyone compiling local history must go check out the new World Vital Records website. Paul Allen - known as being one of the founders of MyFamily.com, has just posted data that will revolutionize at least a portion of our local history research. The initial announcement was made on the fourth of July, but it took […]
It seems that the South will be getting its own Revolutionary War research center. Because of the Civil War, the South often gets short shrift when it comes to the role it played in the American Revolution decades earlier. Following is an excerpt from an AP article.
A research facility is planned for York County that […]
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection in the last few days. FTC subscribers have full access to this data.
INDIANA
Tipton High School 1901 Commencement - Tipton High School, Nineteenth Annual Commencement, West Street Christian Church, Tipton, Indiana, Thursday Evening, May Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred and One, Eight O’Clock.
IOWA
Traer High School 1906 Commencement […]
New Book Announcement:
This compilation is based on various sources including publications that are inaccessible to the average Genealogist, or nearly so. The author draws on many established family histories, early church, bible & cemetery records, and also deed & probate records.
Families of Hunterdon, Middlesex and Somerset counties are covered including: Aleger/Alger; Alger/Auger; Alford; Alward/Allwood; Aten/Auten; […]
Prompted by a note in the July 10, 2006 Poughkeepsie Journal, stating that the “hanging tree” is coming down, I searched and found this obituary for one of Peekskill’s oldest and famous “citizens.” Following is a short excerpt. For those interested in Revolutionary War history, you’ll want to read the full article. This is sad, […]
Project Gutenberg, with the cooperation of many other eBook publishers, is currently sponsoring a month-long eBook Fair. They have made available about 1/3 million books - free of charge - until August 4, 2006.
The Website can be searched by word or phrase - or you can browse the collections.
I found little that was of interest […]
The folks of Allen County, Indiana will be mightly proud of their new history. So many folks supported the project that it turned out to be a two-volume history - and not just one as planned. I blogged about this project twice and am happy to do it again!
Read the guest column written by Martha […]
New Book Announcement:
Genealogist V. L. Skinner, Jr., resumes his transcriptions of 17th-century Maryland probate records with the second volume of his series, Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: 1670-1674. The first volume in the series, released in 2004 and covering the period 1658 to 1674, was transcribed from Libers 1A-1F, […]
Goodness. It is possible to pick up bargains at the local library book sale…
Brad Steinecke felt a little nervous last summer when he sent an e-mail to the producers of “History Detectives,” a popular PBS program that seeks to unravel historical mysteries, to suggest its investigators check out some of his old books.
“I debated whether […]
As all students of WWII history know, the “mighty British battleship,” the Hood, took on the German battleship, the Bismarck - and very quickly lost the fight. Out of a crew of 1,418 men, only three, Midshipman William Dundas, Able Seaman Robert Tilburn and Signalman Ted Briggs survived. Everyone else was killed. The The H.M.S. […]
New Book Announcement:
Genealogist V. L. Skinner, Jr., resumes his transcriptions of 17th-century Maryland probate records with the fifth volume of his series, Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. The first volume in the series, released in 2004 and covering the period 1658 to 1674, was transcribed from Libers 1A1F, 2, […]
Using the technology available in today’s world, headstones can be far more personal than in the past. Following is an excerpt from an interesting article, but you must look at the page in the July 8, 2006 edition of The Record to get a full sense of the beauty attached to some of these modern […]
New Book Announcement
The full title of the book is: They Called Me Doc -Doc Race recalls his practice in Orting between 1947 and 1953
Im from the small Pierce County, Washington town of Orting. I actually lived in the area for the first 40 years of my life. So when my brother, Steve, showed me a […]
Ah, schucks. It looks like I won’t be able to get my cheek swapped and prove my descent from the great philosopher after all… At least, not yet…
Chinese people desperate to prove they are descendants of Confucius have been told that DNA tests will not be included in the current compilation of the Family Tree […]
When I saw that extensive cemetery vandalism had taken place in Salem, Oregon, over the holiday, I did a double take. My grandmother is buried in the City View Cemetery in Salem. City View has experienced extensive vandalism in the past. However, this time it wasn’t City View, but the Lee Mission Cemetery - […]
TAVISTOCK [Perth County, Ontario]- It began with a determined group of German Lutheran immigrants arriving in a new country. The year was 1881.
Now, some 125 years later, St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Tavistock will celebrate that milestone this Sunday with an anniversary service.
The service will begin with a cemetery dedication and decoration at 2 p.m. […]