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Yellow Son | December 12th 2009 by Sang Lee
Hot: According to Wikipedia: Ishi (ca. 1860 – March 25, 1916) was the pseudonym of the last member of the Yahi, in turn the last surviving group of the Yana people of California. Ishi is believed to be the last Native American in Northern Califor read more
Winter Holidays with Your Ancestors
GenealogyandFamily History | December 10th 2009 by Carolyn Barkley
By Carolyn L. Barkley The advent of winter and the holiday season turns our thoughts to family, both our current family and our ancestral families whom we have discovered through our research. Their observance of the winter holidays may have differed read more
Home Remodeling Ideas – for Better Living and Comfort
Home Improvement Tools | December 8th 2009 by Cassie T. Head
Home is where we love to come back after a long tiring day at work.After all it is our comfort zone. But are you missing that comfort at home these days? Do you find that same old look of the rooms;stairs,kitchen or bathrooms just make your eyes wear read more
Review: The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts
Phantoms and Monsters | December 4th 2009
The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts: Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights and Other Hauntings of History and LegendBy Raymond BucklandPublisher: Weiser Books (September 2009)Review by Lee Prosser - Ghostvillage.com reviewRaymond Buckland has created a read more
Family Tree Maker Cannot Make an Ahnentafel List - Still!
Genea-Musings | December 3rd 2009 by Randy Seaver
I've been using Family Tree Maker since Version 5 (I believe) - when was that, about 1998? One of my reasons for investigating genealogy software programs other than Family Tree Maker is the lack of a simple Ahnentafel List. Every other program ca read more
Tracking the Knights Templar in Sardinia
Travel Calling | November 25th 2009 by Angela
I'm carrying out some in-depth research on Sardinia's stormy past and on the mysterious traces left by the Knights Templar. Until now, I knew they might have quickly travelled the island while guarding Christian pilgrims in their journey to and from read more
May I Introduce To You . . . Sandra Taliaferro
GeneaBloggers | November 23rd 2009 by Thomas MacEntee
May I Introduce To You . . . Sandra Taliaferro I have the pleasure of introducing Sandra Taliaferro of the I Never Knew My Father blog! The title of Sandra’s blog says it all: having never known her father became a driving force to find everythin read more
November Issue of CVGS Newsletter available online
Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe | November 17th 2009 by Randy Seaver
The November 2009 issue of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Newsletter is available on the CVGS website - this issue is here.You can read past issues on the Newsletter page.The Table of Contents includes:page 1 -- November Program Meetingpage 2 - read more
Perfectionism is overrated
Genwriting | November 16th 2009
I’m a perfectionist. That doesn’t mean everything I do is perfect. I want everything to be perfect and will often get so caught up in the details of perfection that some things never get done. That has been the case (over and over again) in getti read more
Kreativ Blogger Award from Dr. Bill Smith
TwigTalk | November 15th 2009 by Sheri
Thank you Dr. Bill Smith [http://drbilltellsancestorstories.blogspot.com/] for visiting my blog and choosing to give this award to me.The winner of this award is supposed to list seven things about themselves and then pass the award along to seven ot read more
always check sources to kill myths
Genealoge | November 8th 2009 by Hugh Watkins
from my Usenet email by Chris Reynolds:-I provide a help service for people who have hit a brick wall with their Hertfordshire Ancestors. In a nummber of cases the problem arises because they have copied someone else's research without checking , Tha read more
Happy Birthday to the Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture!
Small-leaved Shamrock | November 6th 2009 by Smallest Leaf
Please join me in celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture!Born here at Small-leaved Shamrock on November 6, 2007, we are sixteen editions strong and looking forward to the upcoming 17th edition. A special than read more
SATOMI STUDIO
Splendor: A Celebration of Jewelry Designers | November 4th 2009 by Carlotta
There is not one but two botanical gardens situated at Japan's University of Tokyo. They are two of the country's oldest gardens containing varied collections of plant species for research purposes. Japan is also the ancestral home of featured jewelr read more
I Am A Barbecue Lover
Mountain Top Experience | November 4th 2009
How would you like to have a bite at this mouth-watering pork ribs straight from the BBQ Grill?I am sure a lot of you can't get your eyes off the picture above, and so do I. I am a barbecue lover since I was a grade schooler. It is actually customary read more
Part 101h – Holmes Genealogy – New Descendant Chart
Genealogy, A Treasure Hunt - Family Records Search & Researc… | November 2nd 2009 by Jim Smith
Afternoon, I think... if I changed my clocks back.Following through with the Brunhammer Eight Ancestral Lines, (see Part 94b), based on the research that has been accomplished to date I am constructing Descendant Charts for each line. Currently thre read more
5 More Ways to Start a Genealogy Research Project
Genealogy Tips and Information | November 2nd 2009 by Korbin Newlyn
(Article 2 of 4)As described in the first part of this series of four articles these are good procedures to follow, step by step, in order to be able to document and prove your ancestral l… More: continued here Bookmark to: read more
CGS and NGS in SLC in 2010
California Genealogical Society and Library blog | October 30th 2009 by Kathryn Doyle
In celebration of the tenth annual CGS Research Tour to Salt Lake City, the dates of the 2010 trip have been set to conveniently precede the start of the National Genealogical Society Family History Conference. The 2010 theme is Follow Your Ancestral read more
Make an Ancestral Map
Genea-Musings | October 28th 2009 by Randy Seaver
As part of my "Genealogy Vacations" presentation that I'm giving today at the Chula Vista Genealogical Society, I made a map showing the ancestral locations in the United States for my own ancestors and my wife's ancestors.Here it is:We have visited read more
Tuesday Teachings: Kill'em Off!
LOOKING4ANCESTORS | October 27th 2009 by LOOKING4ANCESTORS
Have you killed off your ancestors? One of the more important things to do in your research is to "kill off" your ancestors by finding a death registration or burial record for them. The first rule in family history is to work from what you d read more
Follow Friday - "Genealogy's Star"
Genea-Musings | October 23rd 2009 by Randy Seaver
Two new Daily Blogging Prompts were announced yesterday by Thomas MacEntee on the Geneabloggers blog in the post The Importance of Daily Blogging Themes.The new prompts are:* Follow Friday -- this theme has been suggested by Earline Bradt of Ancestr read more
Tomahawk Tassels II
Urban Native Girl Stuff | October 23rd 2009 by Lisa ~ Urban Native Girl
Performance at the Couture Noir Fashion Show Performing with Cadillac Kolstad and the Flats All photos courtesy of Tomahawk Tassels Well almost a month ago I wrote about Tomahawk Tassels, "The Cherokee Seductr read more
Ukraine: Killing fields of Skalat
Tracing the Tribe - The Jewish Genealogy Blog | October 15th 2009 by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
This story caught my eye as Skalat also figures in my own research. The town was in Austo-Hungary Galicia->Poland->Ukraine.The New York Jewish Week story by Susan J. Gordon also spotlights Father Patrick Debois, who was the Philly 2009 keynote speake read more
Genealogy's Star Blog
Genealoge | October 4th 2009 by Hugh Watkins
Genealogy's Star: Another look at New FamilySearch:". . . . . . . I have also found, over the past two years, that to understand what you are looking at, it is necessary to understand some of the limitations of the data. New FamilySearch is a read more
Mutations Make Evolution Irreversible: By Resurrecting Ancient Pr…
The Cosmic Heart | October 1st 2009 by keralexa
A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings -- the result of the first rigorous study of reverse evolution at the read more
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
celticladysramblings | September 26th 2009 by Kathleen Kelly
The story from the book flap: History has all but forgotten the spring of 1708, when an invasion fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes read more
Indian ancestry
Higher education and research | September 23rd 2009 by Dr J D Bapat
The outcome of an extensive genetic research suggests that the population of India was founded on two ancient groups that are as genetically distinct from each other as they are from other Asians, according to the largest DNA survey of Indian heritag read more
Evolution can’t be reversed, research suggests
His Nibs | September 23rd 2009
Modern protein became non-functional when scientists reversed changes"In a kind of evolutionary bridge-burning, once a gene has morphed into its current state, the road back gets blocked, new research suggests. So there's no easy way to turn back.... read more
Huns
Self Guided Turkey | September 18th 2009 by I was in Turkey
Huns remaining in Asia are recorded by neighboring peoples to the south, east, and west as having occupied Central Asia roughly from the 4th century to the 6th century, with some surviving in the Caucasus until the early 8th century. Origin and iden read more
Canadian Genealogy Carnival 6th Edition - Home Sweet Home
LOOKING4ANCESTORS | September 16th 2009 by LOOKING4ANCESTORS
Welcome to the 6th Edition of Canadian Genealogy Carnival. T. Casteel at Tangled Trees presents Our Canadian Ancestor's Home. Check out this lovely photograph of a beautiful ancestral home. Evelyn Yvonne Theriault presents Lagace Hom read more
School Days: Day 7
alis grave nil | September 8th 2009 by Heather
I'm participating in Travelin' Oma's School Days, a daily online free study course. Join me!Today's Assignment: ~Where is your ancestral home? Most of us have roots in several places. Pick one city or country you'd like to visit, find it on a map, read more
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