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Discover Genealogy: 2015-08-16
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 18 August 2015. This post deals with another ancestral line who also moved from Maryland in the early 19. It is very likely that Thomas Mayfield travelled to Indiana via the National Road. A previous trail had been built in 1755, primarily for the military, by Vir...
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-04-26
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Finding Uncle Will in 1881. Why was he important? Left to right: brothers, John, William John and James SHEPHEARD’ photo taken in Taunton, Somerset about 1900. I searched for Uncle Will on both. You will see that the Mews is in back of (stables area?
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-06-21
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 23 June 2015. The Scourge of Phthisis (Tuberculosis). 9 million people fell ill with it and 1.5 million died. I do not know how My Great-grandmother contracted TB. It was certainly easily spread by contact with others who had it, primarily through the air....The m...
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-07-19
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. The Keith family in North America originate from George Keith, who we label as George 1 as there were several direct line ancestors of that name and he was the first one in North America. He was my 8. George 3 was born in 1695 in Charles County. ...
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Discover Genealogy: Moving 2
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. The Keith family in North America originate from George Keith, who we label as George 1 as there were several direct line ancestors of that name and he was the first one in North America. He was my 8. George 3 was born in 1695 in Charles County. ...
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-04-12
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 14 April 2015. Growing up With Cousins. Children of Newton and Margaret Thompson – left to right: Mae, Maud, Carrie, Charlie, Ethel – ca 1925. Isaac Newton Thompson (1859-1937) and Margaret Mary Anderson (1857-1919). The families all lived very close to each other...
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-06-07
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 9 June 2015. Finding people who appear in records around the world: the case of Maude Isabel Mallet. For the parish she asked me whether I could verify the parents’ names, birth date and location. One of the trees was on. As is often the case with lookups in the a...
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-06-28
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Naming Patterns for Children. Recently statistics relating to many aspects of Canadian life were published, in advance of Canada Day – this year the country’s 148. It was Jackson and Sophia, with Liam and Olivia both in the top three. It may seem...
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-04-05
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 7 April 2015. Origin of Easter Eggs. OK, so Easter is over now, the bunny is gone and all you have left are some eggs. But how did eggs get associated with Easter? Centuries this had more to do with protecting the fishing industry than religious reasons. Finally a...
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Discover Genealogy: 2015-05-10
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Where I can tell stories, relate experiences and pass along tips discovered while doing research on my family; through volunteer activities, including as an Online Parish Clerk; and from projects completed as a genealogical consultant. Tuesday, 12 May 2015. My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather was a Publican. There are documents in the Warwickshire County Council record office that show the names of victuallers in the early part of the 19. Thomas, Mary and Charles moved to Leamington Prior around 1845 where,...