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Salt Lake Christmas Tour………….. Week’s Peek
Lucky me, I got to rendezvous and hug several of our Christmas Tour Family at the recent NGS conference in Cincinnati! Jerry VanDuzer, Susan Mottice, Cecily Kelly (with friend Teri Rehman), Leland and Nicholas, Rich Williams, Kathy Rausch and (my roommate) Diann Biltz. It was fun “reunion-ing” with them all!
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The Pontiac, Illinois Public Library Gets a New Digital Microfilm Reader
The following excerpt is from an article in the May 17, 2012 edition of the Pontiac Daily Leader. The Pontiac [Illinois] Public Library has installed its new microfilm reader, but don’t look for some big, clunky machine — the new model is a sleek, tabletop operation. Library director Layla Johnston told members of the library [...]
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Mocavo Gets $4 Million Venture Capital from the Foundry Group
I’ve had some great successes with Mocovo.com, and it looks like they’ve come into some venture capital. Good… The following news release is from the May 16 2012 edition of Bizjournals.com: Mocavo, an online genealogy research service, has landed a $4 million venture capital investment from the Foundry Group . Both companies are based in [...]
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Proof of Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee Ancestry Doesn’t Seem to Exist After All
Whoops – we posted a blog a few days ago in which Christopher Child at NEHGS stated that proof of American Indian ancestry for Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren did exist – even if it did show she was only 1/32 Cherokee. Now it seems that NEHGS says no such proof exists… The following excerpt is [...]
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It’s Not too Late to Sign Up for the Southern California Genealogical Jamboree
About 18 years ago I attended my first Southern California Genealogy Jamboree. I was instantly enthralled. Little did I know that years later I would have the opportunity to attend as both an exhibitor and a presenter, which I did for several years. Now, in its 43rd year, this regional conference is one of the [...]
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National Archives at San Francisco Opens Immigration “Alien Files” & Dedicates Tom Lantos Research Center
The following news release is from the National Archives News Room: The National Archives and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services with the assistance of the late U.S. Representative Tom Lantos and U.S. Representative Jackie Speier joined to have the Alien Files (commonly known as the A-Files) re-designated as permanent records of enduring historical [...]
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Grand Army of the Republic: Department of Illinois — Transcription of Death Rolls, 1879-1947
We recently reviewed two books with transcriptions of Death Rolls for Union soldiers who were members of the Grand Army of the Republic, as listed here: Indiana Civil War Veterans: Transcription of the Death Rolls of the Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, 1882-1948 Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska Civil War Veterans – Compilation of [...]
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NGS Announces Plans for 2013 Family History Conference in Las Vegas – May 8-11, 2013
The National Genealogical Society (NGS) announced at their Family History Conference in Cincinnati last week that the 2013 NGS Family History Conference, Building New Bridges, will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 8–11 May 2013. The conference hotel and venue will be the LVH−Las Vegas Hotel & Casino (formerly known as the Las Vegas [...]
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To Test or Not to Test: A Relevant DNA Question
With Ancestry.com’s recent jump into the family DNA home test market, some experts caution consumers to consider the accuracy and implications of DNA testing for any type of use, family history research or otherwise. One article posted on Maketplace.org looks into the issue: Home DNA kits — to test or not to test? by Adriene [...]
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Reading Early American Handwriting
How many fields does a genealogist need to become an expert in? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. But be honest, the study of genealogy requires, to some degree, the study of history, sociology, anthropology, paleography, and more? Wait a minute, paleography, what is that? “All I want to do is my genealogy.” [...]
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