It looks like Independence, Missouri is about to get a facility that at some point could rival the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I was in the library just a short time ago - and the current 12,000 foot facility was packed with books. The new 52,000 foot two-story building will be […]
I really feel that I’m being premature in posting this blog, but since the word is now circulating on the Internet, I’m forced into it. Yes - plans are underway for the Everton library to open in early October. I will announce the actual opening when it happens.
The Everton collection, which has been unavailable to […]
I happen to be a great fan of city directories. Granted, they usually dont include vital records, but they do a great job of placing our ancestors in a specific place at a specific time.
Ancestry.com has the largest collection of digitized city directories available online. However, I have found it difficult to locate just the […]
Ancestry.com has posted many city and county directories for England and Wales - all in digital format, allowing the researcher to see the orginal pages, not just an index or abstract. Since I found it difficult to locate specific digital directories within Ancestry, I compiled this portal of ONLY DIGITAL BRITISH CITY, & PHONE DIRECTORIES […]
Prompted by an item posted by Dick Eastman last week, dealing with Massachusetts deaths, I spent a few hours on the Massachusetts State Archives website today. The website includes three important databases. Those databases are:
INDEX TO MASSACHUSETTS DEATHS 1847 TO 1910. Although this database is titled Index to Vital Records, it currently only includes […]
It has now been over 53 years since the truce of July 27, 1953 with North Korea that allowed the United States to step back from the bloody mess. No one ever won - and we have to wonder if someday the United States will find itself embroiled in an even greater conflict with the […]
Scott County, Missouri, has a novel approach to records storage. According to the following article, they just shredded them. I doubt they shredded anything genealogically important, but the issue has been a reminder to county officials that something really needs to be done about archives and public access in the county.
BENTON Scott County commissioners […]
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SCOTTSBORO [Jackson County, Alabama] - Restoration work is expected to begin soon on the 146-year-old Scottsboro Depot.
The Scottsboro City Council unanimously voted Monday to accept a bid of $48,560 from local contractor Adkins Homebuilding and Remodeling for the project.
The work will mostly be paid for with a $50,000 grant the Alabama Department of Transportation received […]
The Monroe County Historical Association will have new hours for the fall and winter season. The Stroud Mansion, located at 900 Main St. in Stroudsburg, is now open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the first and third Saturday of the month.
The Monroe County Historical […]
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LAKE GEORGE — On the southern shore of the lake Friday, standing on a patch of land where wary British soldiers and their Indian allies once scanned the horizon for French attackers, tourism officials announced a festival commemorating the French and Indian War next summer.
A state anniversary commission began a five-year observance this year of […]
The following excerpt, from a September 16, 2006 New York Times article, continues the newly discovered saga of Annie Moore.
Four generations of descendants of Annie Moore Schayer, the first immigrant to be processed on Ellis Island, gathered yesterday in New York for the first time to celebrate her rediscovery and their own and […]
I’ve been expecting the following new release for several weeks. It seems that Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation and Relative Genetics are going to get into mitochondrial DNA testing in a big way - as they have been doing for years with Y-chromosome.
I gave a sample for the Sorenson Y-chromosome database years ago. I haven’t seen […]
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The San Antonio Genealogical & Historical Society will present it’s 47th Annual Fall Seminar, November 4, 2006 at the Radisson Hotel Marketplace, in downtown San Antonio. The event will feature talented & popular writer, lecturer and entertainer, Hank Z. Jones.
Hank’s topics at the all day seminar will be
When the Sources are Wrong,
Tracing […]
I’ve been blogging about the possibility of a loan to the Iowa Genealogical Society by Polk County. Now the following opinion piece whas been published in the September 16, 2006 edition of the Des Moines Register.
The Polk County Board of Supervisors has put off making a decision on, in effect, making a mortgage loan to […]