AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

MyHeritage.com Acquires Major Family Network OSN (Verwandt.de) to Accelerate Building the World’s Family GraphWith 13 million family trees, 47 million members and 530 million profiles, MyHeritage.com becomes the largest international site dedicated to families on the webHamburg, Germany, London, UK and Tel Aviv, Israel – February 3, 2010 – MyHeritage.com,...

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FOOTNOTE.COM AND THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES RELEASE NEW VIETNAM WAR PHOTOS AND RECORDS ONLINE-Over 27,000 Photos And Records Are Added To The Largest Online Vietnam War CollectionLindon, UT – February 4, 2010 – Today Footnote.com announced a major addition to its Vietnam War Collection: Army Photos and Unit Service Awards.  Now...

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It's only been six weeks since the New Year began. Many of us made resolutions to increase our learning in genealogy or--if we are bloggers or write journals--to improve our writing in some way.Several well-known and experienced bloggers have come up with "52 Weeks" prompts to help the rest of...

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Please note: I did some editing to this post, adding more images and changing some of the steps to clarify the process of printing and saving images from the Chronicling America website. I was recently asked by a fellow member of our genealogical society how to print articles found in...

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  Libraries will often make copies of obits and mail or e-mail them to you for a very low cost (or free!). An example of this occurred several years ago while I was trying to track down an obituary for Frederika (STEEN) WILKINSON the sister-in-law of my great-great-grandmother, who died...

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Death Notice of Orlando Barber, Lapeer County Press (Lapeer, Michigan), 26 December 1910, p. 4, col. 3This notice of the death of my great-great-grandfather, Orlando BARBER, shows that his father and my brickwall ancestor, James W. BARBER, was living in Lansing, Ingham Co., Michigan on 26 December 1910. Interestingly enough,...

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All the months in the year curse a fair February.Holidays, History, and HeritageFebruary is...Black History MonthLibrary Lovers' MonthFebruary 2: Groundhog DayCandlemas (Christianity)February 14: St. Valentine's Day (Christianity)February 14 - 28: The Winter Olympics - held in Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaFebruary 15: Presidents' Day (United States) February 15 - 21: Random Acts...

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<p><a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=f4f95ea5ea" >January 2010 Scanfest - Part @</a></p>...

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This is the fourth post in a weekly series of Online American Digital Archives and Databases found for free at state, county, municipal, college and university history, library, and archive websites, as well as public and private library and museum sites, and historical and genealogical society sites.Talk about your Gold...

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Just a reminder that Scanfest will be held tomorrow, January 31st, from 11 AM to 2 PM, PST here at AnceStories. Don't forget to prep your photos and documents today or tomorrow before Scanfest to facilitate the scanning process. We've gone two months since our last event, so it will...

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If you must order an individual vital record, the county clerk’s office is generally a bargain over the state’s vital record department. For instance, I can order a birth record from the State of Michigan online and it will cost me $22.50 plus shipping - or $26 if I order...

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Source: 1910 U.S. census, Genesee County, Michigan, population schedule, Montrose Township, sheet 10 A, dwelling 213, family 216, James and Elizabeth A. Barber; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 24 January 2010); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 643 The image above is the 1910 U.S. Federal Census page on which...

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The January 2010 Scanfest will take place here at AnceStories next Sunday, January 31st, from 11 AM to 2 PM, Pacific Standard Time. It's been two months since our last Scanfest, due to the Christmas holidays.Scanfest may be a new term for some of my new readers. What is Scanfest?...

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This is the third post in a weekly series of Online American Digital Archives and Databases found for free at state, county, municipal, college and university history, library, and archive websites, as well as public and private library and museum sites, and historical and genealogical society sites.Catalog of Arkansas Resources...

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The LERFALD line is my husband's paternal grandmother's mother's maiden name. Actually, my husband is descended twice from this line, as his great-grandmother's parents were first cousins to each other.I've been stuck for a long time on how to present this Surname Saturday, because it doesn't follow the nice "template"...

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Pacific Alaska Region, in coordination with The Alaska Network for Understanding American History (ANUAH) is offering free online lessons on Archival Research Basics. Each consists of a Powerpoint presentation and other downloadable materials like worksheets, citations, analysis forms, research logs, etc.  These can...

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20 January 2010FamilySearch Indexing is excited to announce a new Portuguese interface for the program. The first project available in Portuguese is a collection of marriage certificates from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Other new projects this week include the 1910 Census for four states, as well as records from Canada...

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Thanks to Brenda Wolfgram Moore who recently obtained this Declaration of Intent of my great-great-grandfather, Tjamme "James" Wiegers VALK!There is some great information here, including a physical description of James, confirmation of his birthdate and birth place, address, and immigration information. Although none of this information is new to me,...

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poster courtesy of the footnoteMavenThe 88th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy has been posted over at Creative Gene. The theme was "Volunteerism!" Jasia has revamped the carnival and it has a whole new "feel" - besides comments here and there on the various submissions, she also showcases a Feature...

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Today I begin a new ten-part series on Frugal Genealogy, based on my most-requested presentation, "Frugal Genealogy, or How Not to Spend a Fortune on Your Family Tree." Each post in this series will focus on one of ten topics I discuss in my presentation, and I freely share one...

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I have two types of cemetery records for James W. BARBER. One is his tombstone photo, taken by another descendant of his and posted on Find A Grave, and the other are sketchy burial records from Mount Morris Cemetery in Genesee County, Michigan.Source: Tombstone of James W. BARBER (1841 -...

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This is the third post in a weekly series of Online American Digital Archives and Databases found for free at state, county, municipal, college and university history, library, and archive websites, as well as public and private library and museum sites, and historical and genealogical society sites.Arizona State University Libraries:...

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I remember and then I forget, I remember and then I forget again...I think middle age has set in! The past two weeks I would remember at odd times that my blogoversary was coming up, but never when I was at the computer to prepare a post for it. Just...

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