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Showing posts with label #ancestry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #ancestry. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Learning to Read Italian Records-Part One-Birth Records

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Italian records are a treasure trove of information, but where do you start when you can't read Italian? Luckily, most Italian records...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Chasing Squirrels Leads to BIG Find

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  © Copyright  Peter Trimming  and licensed for reuse under this  Creative Commons Licence Chasing squirrels: a genealogy term used ...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

Sarah Jane McNamara Baine 1880-1972

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Sarah Jane McNamara Baine about 1900 The elegant lady in the above photo is my 2nd great aunt, Sarah Jane McNamara Baine. She was bor...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

My Colorful Ancestry Birthplace Chart

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My friend  J Paul Hawthorne had a great idea for visualizing ancestors birthplaces. It's been all over the internet lately. I'm a b...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Bernardino Fratoddi's Brush With Royalty

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As genealogists, we all would love to find a connection to royalty. Mine came in an unexpected way. Empress Elisabeth of Austria , Queen o...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

I'm a Daughter of the South

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Yep, that's me... Alabama born and bred. George Wallace was Governor or husband of the Governor and finally former Governor in all the A...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Kicking Butt in 1789, Isaiah and Joel Jr Phillips

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I discovered an interesting court case while researching Phillips in Wilkes County, Georgia. This case concerns Isaiah and Joel Phillips Jr....
Monday, May 25, 2015

Remembering Private Kenneth George Wrigley POW Sandakan North Borneo

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Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21789 Private Kenneth George Wrigley  Copyright expired - public domain   From Australi...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Meggs to Meigs and Back Again-Same but Different #52Ancestors

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Wikipedia, public domain, Snowflakes I recently had a fourth cousin once removed contact me through my blog. I was glad to meet my cous...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Sergeant Caleb Rogers Warnick CSA of Alabama 1829-1917

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Caleb Rogers Warnick was born January 15, 1829 in Blount County, Alabama. He was the oldest child of Robert W. and Malinda Cheney Warnick. ...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

DNA and Dumplings

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Am I Irish? AncestryDNA says I am 31%, although I suspect some of that Western Europe may be a bit of Irish too. Some of my known Irish...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Slaves Found in My Family History Research

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Schalene Dagutis had a great idea in coming up with the Slave Name Roll Project . The idea is to post the names of slaves found in your fam...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Abraham Goad 1665-1734 #52Ancestors #50

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Abraham Goad was born before or about 1665 in Lancaster County, Virginia. He was thoughtful enough to leave lots of records behind. John ...