I blogged GenealogyBank’s launch about six weeks ago. As you know, I’m a great supporter of what they are doing and have attempted to list the offerings at the site on this blog - as they are posted at GenealogyBank (Click here) and (Click here).
The site is rather spendy at $19.95 (and worth it, I […]
Everyone loves Santa Claus. Robert Rion (1944-2003) did and he resembled Santa too. He loved playing the part so much that according to his obituary he went to court to change his name to match that of his look-alike folklore hero. (Deerfield Review (IL) - September 4, 2003). Rion, as Santa, dispensed good advice to […]
Nick Vine Hall was a giant in the field of genealogy. Although I didn’t know him well, we visited at conferences and I found him to be engaging and personable. He wrote a number of books for genealogists, and was an authority on Australian research.
Gordon Watts wrote a memorium to Nick in his November 21 […]
The following excerpt from a very interesting New York Times article just goes to once again remind us that some folks are just downright mean… Beyond that, the article has some very interesting insights into today’s online obituary and memorial book business, with all kinds of genealogical overtones.
EVANSTON, Ill. Long-silent mistresses, disgruntled former employees, […]
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, […]
Edythe Zimmerly Stephens, 97, of Tampa, Fla., and formerly of Paris [Illinois], died at 4:15 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, at Rehab & Healthcare Center, Tampa. She was a retired registered nurse from Paris Community Hospital.
A memorial service will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Paris Presbyterian Church. Private burial […]
I’ve blogged several times about the untimely passing of Fort Wayne librarian and Genealogist Ryan Taylor. His obituary has been posted in the October 14, 2006 edition of The Record.
The AP is reporting that Ryan Taylor drowned in the Niagara River. Following is an excerpt.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A Genealogist at the Allen County Public Library who went to Toronto to film a television program drowned in the Niagara River, officials in New York said.
Ronald Taylor, 56, was reported missing to Toronto police on […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bay Village, Ohio - Dorothy Hoagland, 90, active in the Western Reserve Historical Society as well as the Genealogical and Bay Village Historical societies for many years, died Sunday at Lakewood Hospital.
Hoagland also was a member of the United Empire Loyalists Association and the Colonial Dames of the XVII Century.
Her longtime interests in history prompted […]
A funeral service is 11 a.m. Thursday for long-time Nevadan Margaret G. Bay, 80, who died Sept. 2, 2006 in Gardnerville.
Bay helped found Stagecoach, Indian Hills and Genoa Estates during her long marriage to Jack W. Bay, who died in Carson City in 1980.
Bay was a resident of Genoa for the last 27 years. Prior […]
If a Wilmington organization or group needed a helping hand, Leroy Allott was first in line to offer his services, even for groups and organizations he didn’t belong to. Many members of the Will/Grundy Genealogical Society might be surprised to learn that Leroy was never a member because he was such a constant presence there.
“Roy […]
Margaret K. “Maggie” Miller, wife of Delphi Chairman and CEO Robert S. “Steve” Miller passed away at 12:33 a.m. today at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. She was 69 years old and had been ill briefly following diagnosis in late May of a brain tumor.
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Maggie Miller was born June 25, 1937 at the U.S. […]
Avid Genealogist and former Louisville [Winston County, Mississippi] Mayor Louis Ray Taunton died July 24 due to a heart attack at age 65.
Taunton, who served three years in U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, spent 25 years as an educator at Louisville High School and was fascinated by History and genealogy. After retiring from the […]
This is really sad…
A teenager whose skill at genealogical research made him something of a local celebrity died Thursday of burns he suffered in a house explosion on Wednesday.
Coady Hatlen, 15, is being mourned not only by his natural family, but by a second family, the staff at the Carlinville Public Library.
He was the third […]
Prompted by a note in the July 10, 2006 Poughkeepsie Journal, stating that the “hanging tree” is coming down, I searched and found this obituary for one of Peekskill’s oldest and famous “citizens.” Following is a short excerpt. For those interested in Revolutionary War history, you’ll want to read the full article. This is sad, […]
Jean P. Daniels entered into rest on June 3, at the age of 84. Her death was remarkably peaceful. Jean was born in San Bernardino and later moved to Tehachapi.
During World War II, Jean worked for North American Aviation, where she met and later married her husband Jack. For most of their marriage they lived […]
Having a lot of family from Southwest Michigan, I’ve been very pleased by the progress being made on an index to obituaries from the counties of Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo and Van Buren. Over 76,500 obits are indexed with over 5000 new names have been added to the Index just lately. A marriage, anniversary, […]