Archive for October, 2006
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
The following item was posted at Genealogy Today a few days ago. If your ancestors worked for the Reading Railroad, you really need to check this out.
At a recent book and paper show, we stumbled upon a pile of papers that turned out to be 500 service records for Reading Company employees ranging from 1883 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
The Logan Library Board invites all genealogists, family historians, and interested parties to an Open House to be held Tuesday, October 24, 2006 from 3 pm to 8 pm. The Everton Collection is housed in the Justice Building (across the plaza, west of the main library) in Logan, Utah. The address is 290 N 100 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Over the weekend, I had the privilage and opportunity to try out the new GenealogyBank.com. In the process I searched many early newspapers, historic books, documents, and other resources.
Along with numerous other items, I found a letter written by my third great grandfather, William Canfield - the first thing I’ve ever seen written by […]
Posted in Databases, Digital Online Content | Comments Off
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
The following News Release is new from Ancestry.com:
Since End of July - 49.7 Million Names, 278,000 Family Trees, 119,500 Photos and 2.8 Million Family History Records Attached
PROVO, Utah, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ — To mark Family History Month, Ancestry.com, the world’s largest family history website, today announced that the newly redesigned Ancestry.com website has experienced a […]
Posted in Ancestry news | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
The manifests of ships arriving at Canadian Ports listing passengers have been preserved on microfilm at Library and Archives Canada. The goal of the Nanaimo Family History Society is to index arrivals at Halifax and Quebec (Montreal is included in the Port of Quebec) from 1900 to about 1921 when the passenger lists were […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Canada, Immigration | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Monday, October 16th, 2006
Winifred Bennett, an amateur historian whose casual suggestion at the dinner table 10 years ago that DNA testing might establish whether Thomas Jefferson fathered children by his slave Sally Hemings helped rewrite history, unsettle families and raise enduring questions about sex, race and the American past, died on Oct. 7 at her home in Arlington, […]
Posted in Obituaries, DNA Research | Comments Off
Monday, October 16th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Sunday, October 15th, 2006
The Jones County Genealogical and Historical Organization of Jones County is announcing that the Jones County history and family history book Echoes From Our Past is at the printers.
For more than two years, the book committee has been collecting and compiling written family histories as well as other historical information about Jones County.
…
Echoes […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Book Announcements | Comments Off
Sunday, October 15th, 2006
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $327 based on travel 10/24 through 10/26. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
JAMESTOWN (AP) - The diary of an area pioneer from New Jersey has been returned to North Dakota, some 20 years after it was found in a bucket of toys.
The diary of Levi Dalley was written in 1886, two years after the New Jersey native began homesteading south of Windsor. Somehow, it ended up in […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Historical Societies | Comments Off
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Baseball Legend, Si Simmons, turned 111 years old yesterday. Simmons came to the attention of many of us due to David Lambert’s research a while back. Following is an excerpt from an article in the St. Petersburg Times.
ST. PETERSBURG The gentle, soft-spoken man living at Westminster Suncoast retirement community rarely talked about his […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
BARRE, Vt. (CNS) — The official newspaper of the Diocese of Burlington celebrated its 50th anniversary by giving a gift.
The Vermont Historical Society’s collection of Catholic materials increased significantly in September with a donation of 83 parish histories from the Vermont Catholic Tribune newspaper.
Pat Gore, editor of the newspaper, and Father Peter Routhier, vicar general […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Roman Catholic, Historical Societies | Comments Off