LOUISVILLE Before the Lewis and Clark expedition charted its course, the Declaration of Independence was signed or the First Great Awakening of American colonial Protestants, Presbyterians formally organized in the United States.
It was 300 years ago that the first presbytery meeting in the U.S. was held, ultimately paving the way for what is today […]
The North Dakota State Historical Society has big plans for the state’s Heritage Center in Bismarck and representatives from the society visited the Lake Region Thursday to detail those plans and seek financial support.
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At a luncheon held in the Chautauqua Gallery at Lake Region State College Virginia A. Nelson, executive director of the State Historical […]
Everton’s Handybook got a good review by Nancianne Parkes Suber in the September 29, 2006 edition of the Clarion Ledger. Check it out.
The following excerpt if from the September 30, 2006 Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. I blogged this tragic event two other times in the last 48 hours.
Colleagues of Ronald Ryan Taylor now fear the worst after a body matching his description was found in the Niagara River near Devils Hole in Lewiston, N.Y., on Monday.
Taylor, 56, an […]
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection since I last blogged the site. Illya has added a tremendous amount of data - especially for New York and Pennsylvania. FTC subscribers can access this new data. Following is a table of the number of entries - by location - that I have […]
WWII ration books are often found in the family “stuff.” Packed away in shoe boxes, trunks, and attics for the last 60 years, these little pieces of memorabelia often list information that adds to the family history. Granted. They don’t contain vital records, but they do give us your ancestor’s names, place of residence, […]
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I’ve been hearing rumors for some time that the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society had placed their Manhattan building on the market. According to an item in the NYGBS’s latest “The New York Researcher,” the rumors are true and the building will most likely be sold. Following is an excerpt from an item […]
Dave Obee has just written a moving tribute to Ryan Taylor. It is posted on DaveObee.com, where Dave has been posting Ryan’s columns for the past four years.
Dick Eastman is reporting this morning that the body of Ryan Taylor, genealogical librarian at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been found in the Niagara River and has been tentatively identified. He was in Toronto for the taping of the television show, Ancestors in the Attic. Ryan has been missing […]
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My former employer, ProQuest, just posted the following news release about the latest version of PERSI. Over 235,000 2004, and 2005 articles not previously indexed are now cited. If you haven’t checked out PERSI lately, now would be a good time to do it.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., September 29, 2006 — ProQuest Information and Learning […]
I blogged about Mona Lisa Gherardini when she was in the news in July of 2005. Well, she’s back. Researchers have found evidence that she may have been pregant or just given birth. Following is an excerpt from a very interesting AP article.
Paris - Researchers using three-dimensional technology to study the “Mona Lisa” say the […]
Mary Penner writes the following questions in her column this week. Next week she plans to deal with the records created by the war. Enjoy…
How about a round of “Name That War?” Here are the clues:
Some of America’s sweetest victories were at sea even though at the outset of the war our Navy had only […]
IONIA [Michigan) - Ionia Community Library officials have literally cut in half the price tag for constructing a new library building, and they hope the scaled-back proposal will be more agreeable to Ionia-area voters next May.
On Tuesday library board members presented the Sentinel-Standard with the schematics for the new facility, to be constructed on Adams […]
The Institute of Museum and Library Services recently awarded Carroll County Historical Society Museum a grant of $12,295 to be used for wages to staff a special project.
The goal of the Historical Documents and Records Preservation Project is to digitize photographs, documents and records of historical significance and make them accessible to the public through […]
Tracing the Tribe is a new Jewish genealogy blog being done in conjunction with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a major international news agency. It went live in time for the 26th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in mid-August, and there are now some 39 posts.
According to writer Schelly Talalay Dardashti, the website provides information about […]
The following News Release reminds us that ireland is nearly treeless - and Rooted in ireland is setting out to remedy that in a small way. Americans can help…
Rooted in ireland is an oak planting project in Drumconwell, which is just outside of Armagh, Northern ireland. The tree site is set on 9 acres of […]
I got the following note from my friends at GenealogyFound in SLC a while back. They are taking a little different approach to professional genealogy. I’m sharing Doug’s letter with GenealogyBlog readers.
My name is Doug Arnett with GenealogyFound which is located in Salt Lake City, Utah,USA.
We are a Non Profit Corporation called GenealogyFound and […]
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