Genealogy Insider "Who Do You Think You Are?": J.K. Rowling's French Family Tree Posted by Diane Let our "Who Do You Think You Are?" Photo: Andrew Montgomery Sunday’s "Who Do You Think You Are?" Rowling visited stunning places, from the French national archives in Paris to the ancestral village of her second-great-grandmother on France's border with Germany. Her first stop included a treasure box of family history and helped to set the tone of the show: Sitting in her aunt’s home in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling gathered clues to Louis Volant's life. At the national archives, a bit of Rowling's world seemed to crumble as she realized the Louis Volant who received the Legion d’Honnuer wasn't her Louis. The men in the Territorial Regiments were 35 to 40 years old and were charged with guarding roads and bridges, not fighting. If you have roots in France, don't miss the French genealogy research guide in the September 2015 Family Tree Magazine. Records next led to Louis' mother, Salomé Schuch.
Rookie Mistakes From FamilySearch Wiki A list of rookie mistakes, their consequences, and how experience teaches you to do it better. A self-improvement checklist. We love new family history researchers. They add enthusiasm and idealism to our community. This is a wiki-list. Rookies search individuals Beginning researchers focus on themselves and their direct-line ancestry. Experienced researchers know that everyone is part of a household, so they are part of their parents family group until they marry or create their own own household. Rookies are poor note keepers Rookie family group records have meager source citations, and are limited to births, marriages, and deaths. Consequences: Poor organization and note keeping often results in redundant searches, missed documents, overlooked clues, poor correlation and analysis, incorrect conclusions, dead ends, and false connections. Rookies jump to conclusions which aren't supported by evidence Rookies assume an ancestor’s name has only one correct spelling i
Family Trees Searched at Ten Sites | Family Tree Searcher 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. In her article, Funeral Cards, Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens explained that, "funeral cards were to be distributed to family members, friends, and the surrounding community in a timely manner to alert invitees to the date and time of the funeral. At a recent paper show, we stumbled across a bunch of funeral cards in a box labelled "all items ten cents each." Search the Funeral Cards Online collection Contributing Funeral Cards Looking for funeral cards in the United Kingdom? What is Ephemera? Related Articles Coping with a Recent Loss?
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild index Lista de Pasajeros a Indias Los Reyes Católicos crearon en Sevilla una Casa de Contratación, cuya dependencia dirigió durante siglos el descubrimiento, la colonización y el comercio Nuevo Mundo. En 1717, se traslada esta Casa de Contratación a Cádiz. De los fondos de la Casa de Contratación 150.000 papeletas corresponden a los libros de asientos de los pasajeros a Indias desde el año de 1509 al 1701 e informaciones de licencias de pasajeros desde el año 1534 al 1790. Por motivo del tiempo, el traslado de los papeles de un lugar a otro y el deterioro de éstos haga que se hayan desaparecido y falten papeletas de años enteros especialmente al principio del Catálogo a Indias. Aún cuando este listado no sea completo, esperamos que nos pueda ayudar a unir a nuestras familias de ambos continentes. Jesús A. Agradecimientos Alex Barrantes Alcayaga Gloria Basalo Hernán Federico Buteler Bonaparte Margarita Morey de Bellido Amilcar J. Alfredo Cascallares Jeshua Chacón Francis Chacón Isaac Chacón Rebecca Chacón
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CEMETERIES Photographed in TX, OK, NM, AK, the Vietnam War Memorial Wall Replica on Texas, and many more En Los Altos de Jalisco hay más ascendencia indígena que europea Evidencia histórica y documental demuestra que en la región de Los Altos de Jalisco hay más ascendencia indígena que europea, tal y como lo reflejan las investigaciones del académico del Centro Universitario de Los Altos (CUAltos), Alfonso Reynoso Rábago, autor de varios libros sobre la genealogía de los habitantes de la zona. Por ello, los relatos sobre un batallón de franceses y austriacos que se perdieron en la región alteña son sólo leyendas, considera el miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, quien elaboró, con la ayuda de sus alumnos de licenciatura, una estadística con base en el análisis de los registros de bautizos y censos parroquiales, en los que los sacerdotes documentaban a qué casta pertenecía cada persona.
Free Public Records | Search the Original Resource Worldwide Steven Morse Site A One-Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy Stephen P. Morse An early version of this article appeared in AVOTAYNU: the International Review of Jewish Genealogy (Spring 2004), and a revised version in the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (September and December 2006). The following is yet another revision of the original article, updated as of February 2011, and published in the Federation of Genealogical Societes Forum (Summer 2011). In the “old days” genealogical research was done by traveling great distances and then going through dusty archives or using microfilm readers. Unfortunately, many of these websites are not easy to use. The name “One Step” was chosen when I developed my first search tool, which allowed for searches through the Ellis Island records. In this paper I’ll present an overview of what the One-Step website has to offer and, in doing so, will introduce other resources that are available on the web. There’s no doubt that this is the correct person.