Santa Claus can be found the census. Michael John Neill has several census images posted at his website - all for Santa in Missouri - 1900 through 1930.
1900 Santa Claus
1910 Santa Claus
1930 Santa Claus
You may have a Younger family in your ancestry, but that doesn’t mean you’re related to Cole. DNA studies show there were two distinct Younger families that came out of Virginia and Maryland about the same time. The following excerpt is from a longer article about how DNA studies can help genealogical research. Interesting…
Roberta Estes […]
Ex-Bond girl Grace Jones has helped prove there is no keeping up with the Joneses at a record-breaking event in Cardiff.
The 1980s’ pop singer and style icon was among 1,224 people who created a new record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname.
She also entertained her namesakes at the Wales Millennium Centre.
The […]
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 […]
As you know, Ned Lamont is giving Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman a giant headache. Now there’s a bit in the news about his family history. Following is an excerpt.
Ned Lamont seemed to have come out of nowhere when he won the Democratic primary against Joseph Lieberman in Connecticut this month, a victory that may put […]
The following article details a bit of the lives of the descendents of Adolph Hitler’s older half brother, Alois Hitler. It must be something to be unlucky enough to be a nephew of a demented mass murderer.
At the end of the article, I’ve added a couple links dealing with Hitler’s ancestry.
Long island: For the Germans, […]
Joe Betz has found that two actresses who are in the news because of the fact that they both have new shows this fall are third cousins - both Rosie O’Don*ell and Bridget Moynah*n are descended from James Bradley 1819-1879 and Margaret Mullen 1830-1900 of Ardstraw Parish, Co. Tyrone, ireland. Rosie starts on The View […]
WASHINGTON - Gallia County, Ohio, found a way to make the vice president of the United States part of a local club - by discovering his great-grandparents’ grave.
Vice President Dick Cheney was allowed to skip the usual formalities when he accepted honorary membership last month in the Ohio Genealogical Society’s Gallia County chapter in southeast […]
The Swiss are having a holiday on Ellis Island this weekend. I rather wish I’d heard about this earlier. I would like to have attended. I too, have Swiss roots…
New York (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) July 27, 2006 — International pop star Jewel will put her Swiss roots on display with a performance at […]
Hmmm. Somebody in China noticed that women had something important to do with the genealogy. Sure took ‘em a long time to notice…
JINAN, July 25 (Xinhua) — Confucius, who looked down upon women, probably never expected that his female descendants would eventually be included in his Family Tree, which for generations has ignored the second […]
Some years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that repository of the world’s largest collection of genealogical data, did Australia the great public service of collating a five-volume family history of the Prime Minister, John Howard.
The information was collected from information stored in vast sealed granite vaults overlooking the Utah capital, Salt […]
Ancestry.com has released a fair amount of celebrity genealogy data in the process of promoting their latest successes in the digitization and indexing of the U.S. Census Records. Following are a few teasers from an article published at Discovery.com yesterday. Note that it’s also mentioned that Ancestry is digitizing ship passenger lists.
George W. Bush and […]
I just blogged about the entire human race having common ancestors not all that long ago. Well, to take it a step further, it’s also claimed that we all have royal ancestry. Hmmm… Didn’t leave you anything, did they?
Actress Brooke Shields has a pretty impressive pedigree - hanging from her Family Tree are Catherine de […]
The new Ancestry.ca website now boasts over 13 million searchable people in their databases. The announcement was made today that they have posted the 1901 census, as well as the 1906 census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. They had already published the 1911 data. These censuses are indexed, with the indexes linked to the images. […]
The following excerpt is from a fascinating article about the Brits’ own Tony Robinson - and his passion for genealogy. The man speaks of ancestry research as “archaeology without the muddy hands.”
Radical genealogy. They’re not words that usually go together. But Tony Robinson isn’t the usual kind of history presenter. He’s not so much the […]
THERE must be something in the water. The family of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the American presidential hopeful, hails from the same part of northeast England as George Washington, the first president of the United States.
Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, the former president, traces her ancestry to a mining family in Co Durham. Washington was the […]
Ancestry.com has posted an every-name index to the 1910 U.S. Federal Census. The posting of this index completes Ancestry.com’s every-name index project for all censuses currently available to the public - 1790 through 1930.
Folks - this is really big news. The 1910 census microfilm from which the digital images were made was by far […]
JFK fans rejoice (that’s usually folks about my age - those of us who grew up singing that P T 109 song). It looks like plans are underway to digitize and put all things John F. Kennedy on the Internet.
The entire collection of papers, documents, photographs and audio recordings of former US President John […]
(ANSA) - Turin, June 14 - christopher columbus came from a tiny Piedmont village and not the bustling port of Genoa as is commonly held, historians here claim .
Turin is holding a major conference this weekend to explore the Piedmontese origin of the great explorer on the basis of recent Italian and international discoveries .
Some […]
The following is a letter published in the June 18, 2006 St. Paul Pioneer Press. It says a lot - and gives words to the emotions many of us feel about our departed family - and friends. Father’s Day is an appropriate time to think of such things.
Writes Peachy of Cottage Grove: “Before I read […]