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Dozens of relatives of the 16th president rest in an obscure Fayette County cemetery, while the family maintains a mostly quiet Western Pennsylvania presence Editor's note: Click the arrow icon in the lower left hand corner to launch. Click "captions" to display the captions with the photographs. You must have Flash player to view this feature. The slideshow may take several minutes to download over a dial-up connection.Frequently Asked Questions for soc.genealogy.medieval
Summary: This regular posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and their answers about medieval genealogy. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post to the soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup or to the associated mailing list, GEN-MEDIEVAL . The FAQ is currently available on the World Wide Web at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~medieval/faq.htm . Contributions by:
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Donner Party, 1919, Monument
The Donner Party was a group of pioneers who in May of 1846 unsuccessfully set off from Missouri in a wagon train headed west for California, and ended up being trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada. This tablet was placed by Historic Landmarks Committee, Native Sons of Golden West, 1919. Donner Party, 1846-1847 The face of this rock formed the North end and the fireplace of the Murphy Cabin.
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From: < editor@genealogytoday.com > Subject: [GENTODAY] Family Tree Connection Update for 20 Jan 2008 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:39:19 -0600 The following items were added to the database: * Oklahoma 1916 Registered Nurses Directory http://www.gentod.com/click.mv?Finding Funeral Cards Online for your Genealogy
Background | Search With a long tradition both in the United States and Europe dating back to the 1800's, funeral cards (also sometimes called mass, mourning or remembrance cards) are an excellent source of information for genealogists. While not a traditional "vital record", they often provide great clues like death and birth dates, name of the cemetery where the deceased was interred, name of the funeral home, and sometimes even a photo of the ancestor.
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News from the seaport of San Francisco during the 1800s from The Maritime Heritage Project. Sea Captains, Ships, World Seaports, Immigration and Passengers.
Project Support The project receives no support other than donations from visitors who value the information on the site. All research, site development (including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, graphics optimization, writing, photography) is by Dianne A. Blethen Levy, great-great-grandaughter of Captain James H. Blethen. The project started as a high school paper in 1997 when my daughter was asked to write about a notable person.
Civil Registration began in England and Wales on July 1st, 1837, the year in which Queen Victoria came to the throne and continues to the present day. The Civil Registration records are divided into three events, Births, Marriages and Deaths. Prior to 1837 many of the Birth, Marriages and Deaths were recorded in the Parish Records.
Search marriage records 1866-1920 fully transcribed and fully name searchable on Familyrelatives.com
101 Ways to Research Your Family Tree for Free
Is free genealogy a thing of the past? With the constant addition of subscription genealogy databases on the Internet, people often wonder if there will soon be an end to free genealogy research via the Web. For those of you with this concern, take heart - free genealogy databases aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Web sites from all over the world contain free genealogy information of use to family tree researchers which has been contributed by individuals, companies and even governments. Birth records, marriage records, military records, ships passenger lists, surnames, census records, immigration records, wills, photos and much, much more are available on the Internet for FREE if you just know where to look. These 100 free genealogy sites, in no particular order, should keep you busy searching for weeks!
Is Free Genealogy Really Free?
Whether it is supported by advertising, affiliate links, grants, or has private funding, no genealogy site can be run for free. Every one of the sites or products included in my 101 Ways to Trace Your Family Tree article, for example, was created at a cost and someone continues to pay to keep this information online. Even RootsWeb and similar sites where so much good information is posted online by volunteers are supported by a commercial venue (such as Ancestry.com in the case of RootsWeb), or through private or group funding. It is a good idea for those of us who enjoy the free information that such sites provide to keep this in mind. This topic comes up every once in a while in the genealogy world - usually after someone gets fed up with the constant complaints from others about the high cost of genealogy. Or when a small genealogical society gets in over their head after their free online databases get too popular - to the point where they can no longer afford the bandwidth.general genealogy search sites
Most of my ancestors, like at lot of people's I expect, were either coal miners or they worked on the land. There are some exceptions down the years; my great great grandfather Alexander Young was a tailor. My great great grandfather Edward Matthews was a saddle maker. Another great great grandfather, Robert Hodgetts, worked in a brass foundry and another one, William Stubbs was a farmer of 63 acres. I always find the Census entries about people's employment fascinating as it helps to build up a background, not only of the person themselves, but of the area they lived in. In the case of my Gough family from Newhall in Derbyshire the area they lived in was noted for both its coal and pottery industries.
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US Census Forms Census extraction forms are doubly valuable: not only do they allow researchers to see the format and column headings for various census years (especially if the schedules themselves are hard to read), they also provide a clean and convenient method for extracting and filing important information you find. You must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view these forms. If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed you can download it for free now.