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CD-ROM Announcement: Genealogy Books on CD-ROM – Volume 1; Compiled by Stemmons Publishing, See: www.stemmonspublishing.com This set of 10 CD-ROMs makes up a massive genealogy library of 705 books. Altogether, there are over 60,000 images, making up 230,643 pages. According Continue reading Huge Genealogy Library of 705 Books – all on CD-ROM
My friend, Arlene Eakle launched a new blog today. She’s calling it Arlene Eakle’s Tennessee Genealogy Blog. Why launch today? According to Arlene, this being March 17, she’s launching “… in observance of the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals which launched Continue reading Arlene Eakle’s New Tennessee Genealogy blog
The following items were recently added to the Family Tree Connection database: ALABAMA Alabama Technical Association 1917 Year Book – Alabama Technical Association, Year Book, Containing Lists of Officers and Members, Constitution and By-Laws, December 31, 1917, Birmingham, Ala. CONNECTICUT Continue reading New Databases at Family Tree Connection
The following new small databases have recently been added at Family Tree Connection: CALIFORNIA Southern California University 1922 Commencement – University of Southern California, Commencement Week, June eleventh to fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, Los Angeles. MAINE Bangor Theological Seminary Continue reading New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
In many ways, the position of city historian was created for the singular talents of Michael Miller. He’s the first person to ever hold that title — a position that was created for him by the Office of Historic Alexandria Continue reading Alexandria, Virginia Historian, Michael Miller, to Retire as His Position is Eliminated
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. is currently hosting a new forensic anthropology exhibit – Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake. The exhibit is made up of skeletal remains – human bones Continue reading Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
The following small databases have been recently posted at Family Tree Connection. CALIFORNIA Mizpah Lodge No. 378, 1915 Roster – Mizpah Lodge No. 378 F. and A. M., Roster and By-Laws, 246 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California. Arcadia Lodge Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
Again, more new databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. As you folks know, I highly recommend the Family Tree Connection website, as it’s one of the few places where new Continue reading More New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
New Book Review: New Kent County Virginia in 1863 Three hundred and fifty years of neglect and fires has made it impossible to put together a real history of New Kent County, Virginia, one of the first counties established in Continue reading New Kent County Virginia in 1863
Last Monday (January 19, 2009) was the 200th birthday of Edgar Allen Poe. Now I see that the Library of Virginia, in partnership with the Poe Museum, is preparing an exhibition dealing with Poe’s life and works. The centerpiece of Continue reading The Poe Family Bible to Go on Display
Prior to the Civil War, free blacks were required to register at their local courthouses in Virginia. The Rockingham County Clerk of Circuit Court, Chaz Evans-Haywood, said Monday the rebinding of the “Register of Free Negroes, 1807-1859” for Harrisonburg and Continue reading Harrison & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, Register of Free Negroes, 1807-1859 Gets New Life
My friend, Jim Petty, has teamed up with other Utah firms and taken on a massive project. That project is to link up Jamestowne Colony Descendents. No small undertaking… This partnership combines genealogy, family history and DNA genetics to link Continue reading Jamestowne Project Underway