It’s great to see government agencies working in concert to make for easy access to historical documents. The following article is a good example of just that. Kudos to the Madison County, Alabama folks.
Before you read about the Madison County land and tax documents just made easily accessible, I’d like to also mention that the […]
Do you have ancestors who came from Scotland, as I have? If so, you need to check out Scottishhandwriting.com. The primary purpose of ScottishHandwriting.com is to provide an online tutorial in the reading of the old Scottish handwriting in the context of early-modern Scottish historical documents (1500-1750).
According to the website, there are three key […]
Campbell County, Wyoming is probably best known for the city of Gillette, a city of about 25,000 on Interstate 90 between Sheridan, Wyoming and Spearfish, South Dakota. The county has some excellent online resources - as follows:
The Campbell County Public Library website has several online databases.
Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Obituary databases have been posted […]
The Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri contains thousands of original church records from Missouri churches. The collection consists of newsletters, conference proceedings, reports, directories, journals, and other publications of various religious denominations in Missouri including the Methodist, Baptist, Disciples of Christ (Christian), Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Catholic churches - as well as […]
Oral history goes hand-in-hand with the study of genealogy and local history. On September 8 and 9 in Louisville, the Kentucky Oral History Commission will celebrate their 30th anniversary. UK oral historian Terry Birdwhistell will participate and be honored at that event.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 16, 2006) − University of Kentucky oral historian Terry Birdwhistell […]
New Book Announcement:
This dazzling book takes us on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity. Islam bridged Eurasia, western Europe, and North Africa. Vikings, with links to Scandinavia and Russia, had just arrived in North America. […]
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NORTH AURORA [Illinois] Archaeologists continue to sift through a plot of land south of Butterfield Road, where the potential gravesite of a Civil War veteran has now turned into what might possibly be a neighborhood cemetery.
Officials with the Public Service Archaeological Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois have discovered the remains of […]
Among other things, the Dacus library at Winthrop University preserves records relating to South Carolina history. The records of families, individuals, organizations, and businesses that have contributed to the history of the Catawba region are of special interest, as well as the personal papers of women and records of womens organizations significant in documenting […]
As I blogged in January, the 27th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, is being held this year at St Andrews, in Fife, Scotland from August 21 to 26. Following is updated information on the upcoming conference.
An international genealogy conference, described as the biggest gathering of heralds since the middle ages, is to be […]
The following News Release was received from FGS:
The Sheraton Boston Hotel, conference hotel for the 2006 FGS/NEHGS Conference in Boston, has graciously extended the discount deadline to Wednesday, August 22. The conference is proving so popular that the conference committee has added additional rooms to the block to accommodate the increased demand. Plenty of rooms […]
My friend, Jean Nudd, Archivst at the NARA Northeast Region in Pittsfield, gave me a heads-up on two groups of digital online records for all 50 States that deal with WWII casualties. As I noted in my blog a few days ago, there must be more of the WWII casuaty booklets available. Sure enough, the […]
New Book Announcement:
This book is written specifically for those interested in learning to find, read and use the court records of New England. Legal terms are explained and illustrations of actual court cases are given. The book is laid out in three major parts. Part One is titled, Understanding the Basics. Here the researcher gets […]
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The following excerpts are not for the faint-hearted. It seems that untimely deaths do have a fascination to them, however.
If the cemeteries of Henniker [Merrimack County, New Hampshire] could talk, they would reveal 349 untimely deaths over the past two and a half centuries, the vast majority of which were of men. They would recall […]
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. - A construction crew working near a Missouri Bootheel church accidentally unearthed a body from a long-forgotten cemetery.
It happened Tuesday when a backhoe operator struck what he thought was a cast-iron sewer pipe near the First United Methodist Church. It instead proved to be a burial vault. The vault was damaged by the […]
The book contains the known historical material of the Centennial, Brookside, Beech Grove, and Summit Methodist Episcopal Churches of Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. There are some large gaps in the material.
The wedding records include information from 1872 to present. Listed may be the name of the bride and groom, address, minister, place of […]
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