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ThinkGenealogy
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Lewis D Bunce Patent
I recently learned from my cousin, Carol, that my 2nd Great Grandfather, Lewis DeMott Bunce (1827-1894), received a patent for improvements to the butter churn. Inventor: Lewis D Bunce Invention: Churn (improvements) Patent No.: 337, 238 Patented: Mar. 2, 1886 Short extract from the patent: My invention relates to the improvement in churns, the [...]
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BillionGraves.com Launches to Preserve Family History on Memorial Day
PROVO, Utah – May 26, 2011 – Memorial Day is coming soon, and AppTime (http://www.apptime.com), the group behind the family history app MobileTree (http://www.mobiletree.me), has a new project they’re thrilled to share. It’s called BillionGraves.com, it’s as ambitious a project as the word “billion” makes it sound, and they want you to take it [...]
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Ancestor Summer Fun
Yesterday was the last day of school for my children and summer vacation has official begun. The Photo Coincidently, yesterday a cousin posted the following photo on a family Facebook group: The photo is of my great grandmother, Florence Reich Bunce, and her daughter Emmie Irene taken in Aug 1962. My 89 year [...]
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Use Facebook to Promote Your Family Reunion
Have you ever been surprised and delighted by something that in hindsight was so obvious? That happened to me this last week. A few weeks ago I received a plain old snail mail letter from a Carol Sweat in Utah. It turns out that she is my 2nd cousin and is planning a Bunce family [...]
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TV Comedy Pokes Fun at Census
The Canadian TV comedy, Corner Gas, takes place in the fictional small town of Dog River located in Saskatchewan. In this episode, Hank and Oscar are hired to complete the census. The humorous result shows a genealogist’s worst case scenario for census enumerators: NOTE: Those not familiar with the TV series might not know that [...]
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Family History in the Year 2364
Or should I say, “Stardate 41986.0”? I am not a huge Star Trek fan (no clothing, action figures, of collection of DVDs), but I do enjoy the show. This year I introduced the TV series to my sons and it is a great father-sons moment that we share as we watch episodes of TNG together [...]
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Google Doodle for Ancestry
Google Doodle When searching Google, it is fun to be greeted by a redesign of the Google logo to celebrate an important individual or event. These are called doodles: Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and [...]
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P-51D Aircraft Tells a Story
Today, I attended the Pima Air & Space Museum with a Boy Scout troop. It was amazing to see just how many planes they had. If each aircraft could speak, it could tell its own story of the places it flew, the battles it fought, the people that piloted (or navigated, gunned, maintained, etc.). There [...]
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Talking Family History Photos
What if you could talk to your deceased ancestors? What would you like them to tell you? Now there is a fun way to bring your ancestor photos to life and let them tell their own stories in their “own” voices. Crazy Talk Animator lets you add realistic animations to your photographs and record your [...]
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GenPerfect 3
GenPerfect is connected and social. Facebook In my first GenPerfect post I mentioned that you could add living members to your database via Facebook. Lately my third cousin has added me to two closed Facebook groups for common ancestors: Thomas Tucker Family & William Henry Dollar Family Members of these groups include living descendants [...]
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