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Hi All. This is Lorines hubby. Lorine is doing great and they are sending her home tomorrow. I thing she will be back bloging in no time :)

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Do you have a great story about your family? Any stories of struggles, immigration, or “black sheep”? That story may be a winner. Why not share it in 2500 words or less.The Oklahoma Genealogical Society’s (OGS) Family History Writing Contest provides theopportunity for researchers to share special family stories with fellow genealogists. The stories may be historically or ethnically important,

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The National Archives in Waltham Massachusetts is offering a free public workshop, "Census, Passenger Lists, & Naturalization Records" on Dec. 1 at 2:00 p.m. This workshop will teach researchers how to utilize the free public records at the site to research their family histories.It is geared to both novice and experienced family historians.The National Archives in Waltham is one of 14 regional

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This post is a little different from my usual blog postings. I wanted to let readers know that tomorrow morning I am going for surgery and expect to be in hospital for about one week. I've set up a few blog posts to publish automatically while I'm in hospital, but please be aware that for the next week or two, there will be fewer postings than usual. As soon as I am able, I'll be back up and at

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We all want to know where our ancestors came from. We want to know when they arrived in North America and when they became citizens. Naturalization and immigration records are the answer. Sometimes naturalization records for an ancestor are the only way to discover the family origins and that all-important ships passenger list.Naturalization records can help you find the date of immigration,

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-Original records dating back to early 1700s become available on the Internet for the first time-Lindon, UT – November 19, 2009 – Footnote.com announced today the release of their latest interactive collection of historical records: the Native American collection. Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help

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The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) will be held at the downtown Radisson Hotel. The following courses are planned: Course 1 = American Records and Research: Focusing on Families Course 2 = Mid-Atlantic Research (New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.) Course 3 = Scottish Research Course 4 = Central and Eastern European Research Course 5 = Immigrant Origins Course 6 =

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Do you have Dutch ancestry? Dutch-American Heritage Day is on November 16. My Dutch ancestry can be seen on the New Netherland section of Olive Tree Genealogy website. New Netherland was owned by the Dutch, then sold to the English and became New York, so if your ancestors were early settlers in that State, you too may have Dutch ancestry. Following is the official proclamation of President Bush,

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Between 1873 and 1934 the legendary shipping company Red Star Line transported more than two million passengers to . Poor European emigrants in search of the American Dream, but also affluent passengers travelling for business or pleasure left for . They departed from the city of Antwerp (Belgium, ), where the port warehouses of the Red Star Line were situated. To this day those Red Star Line

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Press Release from Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Publishes for the First Time Online Collection of Twentieth-Century Navy RecordsSite Celebrates Veterans Day with Free Access to Entire U.S. Military Records Collection PROVO, UT (Nov. 11, 2009) – Ancestry.com today added more than 600 Navy cruise books to its online collection of military records to commemorate Veterans Day. This historic effort is

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Many of my family have served in the military. Today I remember and thank them:My father cecil McGinnis was a Lieutenant in WW2.         His brother Clare also served in the Canadian Army.         My grandfather Charles Fuller was in the Buffs in Kent England.         My grandmother's brother Ernest Simpson was also in the Buffs and in the Canadian Army in WW1.        My other grandmother's

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And another announcement from the Digital Library of Georgia!The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/funeral. The African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library online collection consists of over

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Press Release followsThe Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the free online availability of three historic Georgia newspapers: the Macon Telegraph Archive, the Columbus Enquirer Archive, and the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive. Each extensive archive provides historic newspaper page images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date. Zooming and

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One of the many things I like about NewspaperARCHIVE.com is that you can get e-mail updates when new articles are added to the archive matching your search criteria.I'm always searching for VOLLICK and FOLLICK anywhere, anytime in North America. So it's a challenge for me to remember what I've searched and where (and which individual!). So the email notification of new articles with my surnames

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Ancestry.com has a very interesting custom research tool called Expert Connect.Expert Connect services Expert Connect Services consist of five ways to get help with your family history research. * Record Pickup: Save yourself a cross-country trip. Hire a researcher in another state to visit a specific archive, collect the record you need and mail it to you. * Local Photo: Get a picture of

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When I started researching my genealogy it was sporadic, with years of non-genealogy in between spurts of frantic searching. But then I began researching in earnest in the days I refer to as B.I. (Before the Internet)I was thinking about it this week. Do you remember B.I.? Before Windows. Before Cyndis List. Before Ancestry.com. Before this wonderful cyber world we know now.I worked on my

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Footnote.com to feature original documents from every publicly available U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930 Lindon, UT – October 29, 2009 – Today Footnote.comannounced it will digitize and create a searchable database for all publicly available U.S. Federal Censuses ranging from the first U.S. Census taken in 1790 to the most current public census from 1930. Through its partnership with The

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Land records are very useful. Originally all land in Ontario belonged to the Crown. Although there were small areas of settlement in 1763 after the British took over,major settlement of Upper Canada began in 1783 and utilized Crown Grants. Most settlers bought land soon after arrival, although of course there were exceptions to this - some lived with family previously settled, others had no

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The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is “Musical Instruments!”Do you play a musical instrument or did one of your family members? What instrument did you or they play?This Carnival seemed intriguing. I started thinking about my ancestors and realized I had no idea if any of them played a musical instrument! My father played harmonica, and I used to love sitting and

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St. Mary's Church Records, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are online on Olive Tree Genealogy's Pennsylvaniapages. These FREE transcriptions include Interments in St. Mary's Burying Ground, 1788-1800and a List of Names for Pew Rents 1787-1791 as well as a list of debtors who owed money for their pew rentals 1787-1791.St. Mary's, built in 1763, was the second Roman Catholic institution in Philadelphia

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Genealogies of the victims of the 1692 Salem Massachusetts witch hunt have been published online by the Boston Genealogy ExaminerThese brief bios may help someone who is looking for an ancestor who lived in Salem during that time period.

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Does this sound familiar? You've hunted everywhere. You've searched online. You've checked Ancestry.com, Footnote,com, the GenWeb sites. But you can't find the marriage (or perhaps another event record) of that one elusive ancestor - your great grandfather's sister. I was recently looking for a marriage registration online. I had the exact date (as per family records) of 24 June 1909. I had a

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Four Genealogy workshops will be held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, on Wednesday evenings at 6 p.m. The first workshop, "Getting Started in Genealogy," takes place on October 28. "Genealogical Resources at HSP" on November 4; "Tracing Your Civil War Ancestry" on November 11; and "Conserving Your Family Records" follow it on November 18.If you’ve been thinking of

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I just wanted to let my readers know that I am having surgery in 4 weeks. I'll be in hospital about 4 days then recuperating for 8 weeks. I am not sure when I will feel up to being back at my computer (one week? two? more??) so I am preparing blog posts now and programming them to publish automatically while I'm unavailable. This means I might miss some events which come up while I am in hospital

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December 6-12, 2009 – Salt Lake City, Utah. Join Leland K. Meitzler, and Donna Potter Phillips at the 25th annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library December 6-12, 2009.Have a tour of the Family History Library, research your ancestors, and get help from experienced genealogistsFor more information, see: SaltLakeChristmasTour.com , or call 801-949-7259

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