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It is easily said that I can sometimes be too quick while other times be very slow to adapt to new technologies, hardware, software, peripherals or other genealogical research tools. Tonight, of course, the old workhorse software program that I’ve “grown up with” is going away. Family Tree Maker® is currently in its last iteration…
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There’s an interesting DNA case that has been developing in Britain. There is a dispute involving the 13th century Pringle of Stichill, with Stichill being a town and civil parish in the county of Roxburghshire in Scotland. Described in the article as a “bitter dispute,” 2 lines of Pringle men are battling out the true and rightful heir…
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The Chicopee Public Library at 449 Front Street in Chicopee, Massachusetts has been designated a Family History Center by the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS). These are the folks who bring us billions of genealogical records to research at their website Family Search and they do it for free! On Thursday, 19 November 2015, representatives…
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Here’s a short hint regarding a search I was having some difficulty with. The family name is “LISIEWISCZ” which, as I’m sure you can imagine, has a wide variety of spelling possibilities. After all, “speeiln duzn’t cownt” right? So the point of the search was to find the obituary for a 1932 death. The obituary…
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I’ll readily admit that I have not been a regular user of Heritage Quest. As a matter of fact, I would avoid it. Probably because I didn’t know how best to take advantage of it. When I did go there, it was usually at the library where I volunteer and occasionally teach or lecture on…
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Today I want to share with you a blog, “The Legal Genealogist” by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL who writes an amazing amount of information, all of which is useful and interesting to genealogists. She is a lawyer, but speaks and writes in English, not “lawyer” so she’s easy to understand. She is also…
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Today nearly got away from me without my recognition of a very special birthday. I’ll give you a hint: He was born 342 years ago today (Julian Calendar!). John Howland was a Mayflower passenger who nearly didn’t make it! There’s a well-documented, elaborate story detailing the events. Suffice it to say that he had had…
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If I’ve ever prepared for a monthly meeting of WMGS, it’s this month’s meeting. It will be our 4th virtual meeting, each with an increasing level of technology and the resultant learning curve. We’ve had some high profile guests in virtual environments over the past year interspersed with local genealogists. For example, Maureen Taylor, the…
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This link is to an aerial view of what was my 4th great grandfather’s farm in Alabama. http://www.findaspring.com/locations/north-america/usa/robinson-hollow-spring-elkmont-alabama/. It’s located on Robinson Hollow along Robinson Road near Elkmont, Limestone Co, Alabama where you’ll find Robinson Family Cemetery. After marrying Anne Grantham who died young and then his sister-in-law Tabitha Grantham, Hezekiah Robinson (or Robison or…
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