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Protect Repositories of Polk History - The Ledger

Filed under: Uncategorized — Google Inc. at 4:45 am on Sunday, July 20, 2008

Protect Repositories of Polk History
The Ledger, FL - 1 hour ago
The genealogy library would be severely reduced. The museum, approaching its 10th birthday, could close. If Dixon's heart were beating, veins would be ...
'Y'all From Around Here?' The Ledger
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Woman's mission won't let her forget - Honolulu Advertiser

Filed under: Uncategorized — Genealogy - Misbach Enterprises at 4:36 am on Sunday, July 20, 2008

Woman's mission won't let her forget
Honolulu Advertiser, HI - 23 minutes ago
She has searched the state archives and the Kalihi LDS Family History Center for information. Everything she has collected about Pu'ukamali'i is stored in a ...

Community banks a benefit - Gadsden Times (subscription)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Genealogy - Misbach Enterprises at 4:13 am on Sunday, July 20, 2008

Community banks a benefit
Gadsden Times (subscription), AL - 46 minutes ago
And, many are willing to consider character, family history and discretionary spending in making loans, while megabanks often apply impersonal qualification ...

'Unchurched' worshipping more, 'churched' less? - USA Today

Filed under: Uncategorized — Genealogy - Misbach Enterprises at 4:02 am on Sunday, July 20, 2008

'Unchurched' worshipping more, 'churched' less?
USA Today - 57 minutes ago
The study also analyzed family history of attendance and parental religious involvement. The study estimates that 43 million adults typically categorized as ...

Help for novice genealogists at Chelsea District Library - The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com

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The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com

Help for novice genealogists at Chelsea District Library
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI - 1 hour ago
People can start from home by doing an Internet search of genealogy. There are several sites, free and with fees, that can assist you. ...
COLUMN: "On Display" The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
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Wirksworth Derbyshire Parish Records 1600-1900

Filed under: General — genealogypro at 12:11 am on Sunday, July 20, 2008
The largest and most detailed study of an English parish on the Internet. Much of the rest of Derbyshire is covered as well. for more click here

Genealogy Records Are Given to Library

Filed under: General — genealogypro at 11:24 pm on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Wolfert Van Couwenhoven visited New Amsterdam in 1625 but apparently was unimpressed. He left town and went home to the Netherlands, only to return five years later and purchase a large tract of land on Long Island. He probably never imagined that his odyssey would be immortalized, but there it is, nearly 400 years later. [...]

Jo Stafford, World War II-Era Singer, Dies at 90, NYT Reports

Filed under: General — genealogypro at 10:56 pm on Saturday, July 19, 2008
July 19 (Bloomberg) — Jo Stafford, who sang backup for Frank Sinatra and performed with Tommy Dorsey, died July 16 at her Century City, California, home, the New York Times reported. She was 90. The biggest hit for Stafford, a singer in the Pied Pipers and then a soloist, was “You Belong to Me” in [...]

Genealogy: Word-of-mouth stories are often true

Filed under: General — genealogypro at 10:47 pm on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Last week, I told the story of an alternative theory concerning the parentage of Abraham Lincoln. My summary was taken from The Abraham Lincoln Genesis Cover-up: The Censored Origins of an Illustrious Ancestor by R. Vincent Enslow. Elslow’s paper can be read in its entirety at the Genealogy Today e-magazine Web site at www.genealogyto day.com/us/lincoln/index.html. for [...]

Tweed and the Isle of Harris

Filed under: General — genealogypro at 10:44 pm on Saturday, July 19, 2008
While Scotland is only a small nation with an historically small population the influence of the Scots upon the world of today is disproportional. Throughout history a disproportionate number of Scottish men and women have played incredibly important roles in the history of the vast majority of countries of the world. From the Founding Fathers [...]
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