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Never Run Away from Anything | July 1st 2009
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.Rodney DangerfieldI got an updated program of Family Tree Maker. Recently, I found all of the research I had done many years ago at the library (without computers). I started entering the informa read more
Internet Magic Fridays
Computer Savvy Seniors | June 25th 2009 by Holly Oelkers
Jane Booras is the Editor of numerous newsletters including our Campus Times. She will be sharing how you can find whatever you need - photos, clipart, information, maps, phone numbers - on the Internet. Roots…I’m in a time warp. Iowa is just gor read more
So…What’s on Your Bucket List?
working writing woman | June 16th 2009 by Elaine Martin Petrowski
You know … that list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket”? Okay… I’ll start, but then let’s hear from you lurkers out there on this one… share some of the top items on YOUR bucket list. ( You read more
New Echota and The Vann House
A Mountain Mama's Blog | June 9th 2009
Day Five: I am sitting in our Dayton, TN hotel exhausted. We started the day at 7am, eating, packing, and heading out to New Echota Historic Site. We arrived there right after they opened. I got teary eyed before we went in. It makes me wonde read more
the moths of Ernst Haeckel
Musings, Usings, and Loose Things | June 4th 2009 by Jennifer M. Brown
Ernst HaeckelErnst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousan read more
Using the Internet For Genealogy Searches
Women-Sense | June 3rd 2009 by Doran
With the economy keeping people closer to home, there’s been a greater focus on family fun that’s relatively inexpensive and close to home. This has lead to a renewed interest in nostalgic activities like researching family history. Makin read more
Finding Arizona
A Mountain Mama's Blog | May 28th 2009
My great great grandmother was Arizona Webb Walker. She was a Cherokee whose grandmother was one of the group who escaped the Trail of Tears and hid out to later create the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina. Arizona’s father was of read more
Criar árvore genealógica no PC e Online!
Depurar.net | May 28th 2009 by Willian
Árvore genealógica é um histórico de certa parte dos ancestrais de uma pessoa ou família. Mais especificamente, trata-se de uma representação gráfica genealógica para mostrar as conexões familiares entre indivíduos, trazendo seus nomes e, read more
Forests of the Night by James W. Hall
Pick of the Literate | May 15th 2009 by ibpurpledragon
If intricacy, genealogy and violence are your interests you have come home in this novel. Hall paints a story of epic violence spanning generations. The characterizations are good and the schizophrenic is believable. Lots of action taking place in Mi read more
Search for long-lost relatives and build your family tree online
Australian Women Online | May 8th 2009 by Deborah Robinson
Genes Reunited helps people to find living relations and takes them back in time to discover their family history. Genes Reunited was launched in 2003 as a sister-site to the Internet phenomenon Friends Reunited. Since then it has grown to become the read more
Native Americans Descended From A Single Ancestral Group, DNA Stu…
luckyrooster | May 1st 2009 by David
From Science Daily A distinct DNA signature was found among all but one of the populations shown as points 32 to 53 on this map. (The Fox tribe, point 48, was the exception. But DNA samples of only 2 people were tested, too few to provide a valid res read more
Olga’s Diary Continued : Siblings, Lodgers and a Gift from God
Olga's Daughter | April 9th 2009 by Marie
Dear Diary When we were little, Mammie used to take in lodgers and we still have one, Mr Delgado who has one of the rooms downstairs. He is a salesman, from the Cockpit Country and a direct descendent of the Maroons, who, by the way, hate the Brit read more
Salt Lake City
erniesjourneys | March 27th 2009 by Ernie
Morman Tabernacle At Christmas time or any time, I love to listen and sing to the songs by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. On one of our trips we got to stay overnight in Salt Lake City so of course Mum, Pop and I wanted to take a tour of the Mormon Tab read more
My Family Quilt- My Mothers Side
Where I Come From | February 23rd 2009 by Robin Inge
My cousin Rene Corwin Young wrote the following story for me while creating a Scrapbook of the Faleris Family before her Journey to Texas to meet my sister and I in October of 2007.James FalerisBorn: 24 September 1919, CanadaDied: 04 March 1989, St. read more
SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS...
Where I Come From | February 17th 2009 by Robin Inge
Jennie Scopis1885-1974when i was 5 my mom took me to visit my grandparents in MI. Unfortunately my "YIYI" passed away shortly before I arrive. When I arrived, my grandmother gave me a picture of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus. I remember it being met read more
Alma Elizabeth Clark Evans
Where I Come From | February 15th 2009 by Robin Inge
Alma Elizabeth Clark Dec 26, 1903 - Sept 8, 1978aka My Great GrandmaMy great-grandmother is the daughter of William Henry Clark born 17 Nov 1854 in Indiana and Amanda Elizabeth Dugan Clark born March 1862 in Indiana. My grandmother is one of 14 child read more
Town Square Forum
Research Notes | January 28th 2009 by donethat
The Familytomb offers more features than the blog, documents, pictures and the surname database. The Familytomb also offers a forum for other researchers to connect, share information or just chat. Heck, you can even share recipes if you read more
It’s F#cked Up Friday - and Aaron McGruder’s A Black Cartoon
BadGalsRadio Daily Blog | January 23rd 2009 by RE Ausetkmt
Aaron McGruder, Cartoonist and author of the Boondocks Cartoon Series; has set off a firestorm of controversy, by saying that he questions President Obamas’ Blackness. Well Aaron, have we questioned your blackness lately ? it seems like your co read more
My Goals for the Web 2009
The Blog Post | January 19th 2009 by Kevin Goodman
I’m putting myself out there hoping to attract likeminded friendship. Really it’s about growth, networking, and developing interest specific relationships, and that’s what it’s really about. read more
Thank you, and miscellaneous other things
Meeshka's World | January 10th 2009
Thank you one and all for the wonderful birthday greetings. As Copper mentioned, I am indeed 8 years young, as fluffy as ever.For my birthday I received a wonderful new palatial crate with fleecy sleeping mat so I am no longer cramped with my fluff read more
Cancer-Free Baby
Surviving Cancer | January 10th 2009 by Jessie Somers
"The first child in Britain known to have been screened as an embryo to ensure she did not carry a cancer gene was born Friday"...CNN "Her embryo was screened in a lab days after conception to check for the BRCA-1 gene, linked to breast and ovarian c read more
Preserving Family Memories
The Memory Writer | November 28th 2008 by darlene
One of my goals on my website is to promote the preservation of such memories. To follow through with that goal, I've decided to include tips here on this blog. I plan to post one tip at a time and if you are lucky, I might even include some of my f read more
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Watch Free Episodes | November 7th 2008 by PAULA NEAL MOONEY
»»»»»»»» Obama Mutt - Obama ‘Mutt Like Me’ - Watch Obama Call Himself a Mutt… Can “Mutt Like Me” t-shirts and songs and videos be far behind? Obama saying “mutt like me” when describing whether or no read more
Relatives you don't know
Jeff in the Berkshires | November 1st 2008
I got a telephone call today from the wife of my grandfather's grand nephew. Get that one for a genealogical tongue twister. My grandfather's father is the great grandfather of the husband of this person. I had never really heard of the "great grandm read more
Wondering who they were...
Shrinking Pamelalala | October 10th 2008 by Pamela R
I've had the urge off and on to do the whole geneaology thing. I don't know anything about my family past my grandparents. Now that so much of the information is on the internet I have been thinking that I should give it a try and see what I can come read more
The Darlings: Maternal Ancestors of Linus Pauling
The Pauling Blog | October 9th 2008 by Spcoll
Before her wedding to Herman Pauling on May 27, 1900, Linus Pauling’s mother, Belle, was known as Lucy Isabelle Darling. The Darling family history is a rough and tumble one, indicative of the pioneer environment in which Linus Pauling was ra read more
The Paternal Ancestry of Linus Pauling
The Pauling Blog | September 23rd 2008 by Spcoll
Linus Pauling’s earliest known ancestor was Andreas Pauling, born ca. 1630. Records indicate that Andreas’ grandson, Johann Christoph Pauling, married and started a family in Preusslitz, Prussia. There the Paulings remained for at lea read more
With apologies to all you Mark Dykemans out there…
The Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog v. 2.0 | September 13th 2008 by Mark Dykeman
My name is a little unusual among names of Anglo-Saxon descent (or Dutch, I suppose, although I’ve read that my family name has some British roots as well). It’s more unusual than Smith and probably about as rare as, say, Scoble or Dykst read more
The tax collector who forgot how to count…?
Authentic Followers Of Jesus | August 14th 2008 by David
“Matthew purposely arranges the genealogy into 3 divisions of fourteen generations each. In other words, he purposely leaves out four kings in order to retain his structural arrangement. The question is, ‘Why would Matthew want fourteen nam read more
The one thing I learned about my ancestor's that hit home...
BlokThoughtsnMore | August 13th 2008 by BlokThoughtsnMore
Now here is the tour of why I went to England in the first place. To find out where I come from...see where my roots stem, sort of thing. To trace my ancestors...see where they lived and worked...see their life before they joined the LDS church and p read more
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