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• in Family
  Could New Census Data Change Family Trees?
  A tree wouldn't be the same without recent data from the Archives relating to 1940's.
  by advertzones / on Apr 17, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “family history”

 

• Journal 10: Becoming an Epic Family Chronicler

  
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  I received a Journal 10 to evaluate it in my own home and collect information for this review.  No monetary compensation was received and a positive review was not required.  As with all Busy-at-Home reviews, the views and opinions expressed are wholly my own and based on my personal experience with the product. ...
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• My Childhood Home

  
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  Last month,  we looked at Writing about your Childhood Home .   “Come with me back to my Childhood Home” was the title that my grandmother used when she left us a piece about one of the homes of her childhood in her “Treasure Chest of Memories.” (See My Story: The First Treasure Chest of Memories .) She ...
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• Top Ten Life Story and Family History Films

  
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  I love that Sarah Polleys Stories We Tell and Christopher Guests Family Tree are getting such good press. Its nice to see more public awareness around genealogy and personal history. Im always looking for films that focus on life stories and family histories. And I dont mean celebrity life stories and family ...
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• Positive Social Support at Work May Help Prevent Diabetes

  
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  Work conditions, including low levels of social support and high levels of stress, can accurately predict the development of diabetes over the long term — even in employees who appear to be healthy otherwise, according to new research. The study, led by Sharon Toker, Ph.D., of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of ...
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• MOTHERS DAY PT1

  
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  For Mothers Day this year I thought Id share some pictures of the mothers from both sides of our family. For our Moms side we dont have very many since her grandparents immigrated here from Ireland and Germany in the 19th century.   John McFarland & Annie (Kelley) McFarland First theres Anna ...
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• STEPHEN HOPKINS OF THE MAYFLOWER PT2

  
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  Among the entries in the Plymouth Court Records Volume 1 1633-1640, there is this entry for a trial on Sept.3 1638 that would have consequences for my ancestor Stephen Hopkins: Arthur Peach, Thomas Jackson, Richard  Stinnings, and Daniell Crosse were indicted for murther & robbing  by the heigh way.  They ...
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• How Many Generations Since Adam Are You?

  
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  I was thinking about some family history and we have a line that is tracable to Adam due to some fortunate connections to royalty and the tribes of Israel. If we accept that there are no errors in historical records the generation number we are is known. I was just wondering if anyone else out there also knows what ...
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• Weekend Photo Hunt (lazy-unusual perspective)

  
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  Some member on my mother side, including my own mother looks at reading as a form of laziness. Which brings on poverty. What I understand their mother my grandma read a lot and things didnt get done like they should of. Even my husband has some of the same attitude as my mom did about reading, his mom read a lot ...
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• Famous Families in History

  
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  Originating from the Latin root familia, meaning affiliation, a traditional family is comprised of a husband, wife and children. A family is the basic unit of a society. When it comes to knowing about families in their historical perspectives, there is a special branch of study known as genealogy, which traces ...
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• STEPHEN HOPKINS OF THE MAYFLOWER PT1

  
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  Ive always had a soft spot for my Mayflower ancestor Stephen Hopkins. He was the only man known to have been both at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and at Plymouth Colony. He was one of the "Strangers", a Mayflower passenger who was not part of the Pilgrim congregation but a representative of the men in London who ...
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• Does It Really Matter?

  
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  The roads in life can take you too many places. Some places don’t matter as much as others but sometimes we don’t realize what really matters until we get to a place of recognizing what really matters. In a world that is filled with constant change you have to first learn what doesn’t matter in order to ...
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• MY BAD BOY PLYMOUTH COLONY ANCESTORS

  
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  One of the best sources Ive found of family stories since I began working on my genealogy has been the Google Books editions of the  Essex County Court Records.  Ive found a lot of blogpost material from them, too! I hadnt been able to find equivalent Plymouth County online records for my ancestors from that area ...
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• A Lynders gathering in the year of the gathering

  
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  Watching the sea and the beach at the Waterside Hotel before a gathering of Lynders cousins in Donabate this evening (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2013) Patrick Comerford The weather today has been mixed, and I’m in Armagh from tomorrow (Thursday) for three days at the General Synod of the Church of Ireland. ...
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• National Photo Month Giveaway: Photo Preservation Kit!

  
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  Did you know that May is National PhotographyMonth ? Of course, photography plays a huge role in family history research. Nothing connectsyou with an ancestor and inspires you to discover more about his or her life, thana photograph. This one is one of my favorite family pictures. It shows my ...
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• It’s an old Lincoln

  
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  The boys asked me what it was, and I blurted out “’64 Lincoln,” though I’m not sure at all of the year.  I think it could be as early as a ’61 and I wouldn’t know it.  Most of my expertise in this era is GM. In any case, it was an awfully nice car, and an interesting sighting on the way back from the ...
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• Secrets Of The Mormon Temple

  
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  Filed under: Temple & Masonry Tagged: Baptism for the Dead , Blood Atonement , Family History , Masonry , Mormonism , Pay Lay Ale , Secret Handshake , Secrets , Temple , Temple Ceremony , Temple Penalties , Tokens , Washings & Anointings
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• Tuesdays Tip: The Act of Union Black list

  
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  This Tuesdays Tip is not a tip as such, but another resource page I am adding to this blog. The content of this page is a little sticky, so to speak, because it is a Black List of those individuals who were called out for changing their vote, and thus voting in favour of the Act of Union ** in 1800. With respect to ...
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• Progress Updates of Alex W Fraser Glengarry Books journey

  
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  Greetings There is a lot going on behind the scene in continuing our journey in organizing and preserving Glengarry County area history that we have been on now for over 40 years, 1-- working on completing the remaining 3 to 4 volumes of Gravestones of Glengarry series by late summer or early fall. ...
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• On this day in history

  
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  In 1937 the zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and burned to a crispy humanity! in Lakehurst New Jersey.  It seems that even then it was less expensive to fly to New Jersey than to New York - assuming there was no extra charge for the flame out, of course. And we can re-purpose the old joke to todays modern age: ...
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• THE THIRD AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CHALLENGE BLOGPOSTS ROUNDUP

  
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  Welcome to the Third American Civil War Blog Challenge roundup. This year I decided to post the Challenge entries today on May 6 in commemoration of the six day Battle of Chancellorsville which concluded on 6May 1863. It was the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War and was where Confederate General Stonewall ...
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