Archive for April, 2011

From Argentina to the BVI, Family Search’s Index grows!

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Latest Additions Reach New Milestone in Free Online Historic Record Collections    

The latest additions to FamilySearch’s online collection of free historic record collections pushes it to 600! That’s right, 600 free, original source record collections online from all over the world. The tally of insomniacs will certainly expand as the numbers of family history researchers enjoy the latest updates. This week there are new international records from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and Spain. Now take a seat while the list of updates for the U.S. collections are noted—California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington State, Wisconsin, and the Virgin Islands. Whew! See the table below for details. You can search all of the record collections now for free at FamilySearch.org.

If you are enjoying the steady stream of free records added weekly, please consider “giving back” as a FamilySearch volunteer. You can start and stop volunteering at any time. Find out more at indexing.familysearch.org.

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Latest DNA + Genealogy Round Up

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

 

DNA program during Genealogy meeting

Brazil Times - ‎Apr 22, 2011‎

 

TERRE HAUTE — At the regular meeting of the Wabash Valley Genealogy Society Monday, May 9, Alan Teller will present, “DNA Testing for Genetic Genealogy or DNA Testing for the Layman.” The program is open to the public and will take place from …

 

Spare Times for April 22-28

New York Times - Liz Maurer - ‎Apr 21, 2011‎

 

features Pearl Duncan, an African-American author who shares how she used family nicknames, DNA and genealogy to trace her lineage to families named Opare of the Akan people of Ghana and to Scottish-Americans and British royals; Wednesday at 7 pm, …

 

Victoria Genealogical Society hosts meeting

Victoria Advocate - ‎Apr 21, 2011‎

 

June 4, the Clayton Library in Houston will host a seminar on DNA. The speaker will be Debbie Wayne. All meetings start at 7 pm and are held at the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall, 2105 N Ben Jordan St., All members and guests are urged to …

 

Martin County Community Calendar Updated April 25

TCPalm - ‎Apr 25, 2011‎

 

MC Genealogical Society: “Genealogy & DNA” workshop. Robert Morgade Library, 5851 SE Community Drive, Stuart, 10:15 am-noon, May 14. Ages 12+. Donation. 772-220-1638; mcgensociety.org. “The Honeymooners”: Relive classic moments that shaped future of TV …

 

Martin County Community Calendar Updated April 22

TCPalm - ‎Apr 22, 2011‎

 

MC Genealogical Society: “Genealogy & DNA” workshop. Robert Morgade Library, 5851 SE Community Drive, Stuart, 10:15 am-noon, May 14. Ages 12+. Donation. 772-220-1638; mcgensociety.org. “The Honeymooners”: Relive classic moments that shaped future of TV …

 

Curtin Clan Surname Gathering in Chicago

Online PR News (press release) - ‎Apr 23, 2011‎

 

The conference will cover Curtin genealogy, Irish heritage, local speakers and attendees can meet Margaret Curtain of Australia, world’s foremost authority on the Curtins of Ireland. The Gathering will be held at the Irish American Heritage Center in …

 

We are family

Guelph Mercury - ‎Apr 22, 2011‎

 

In a larger sense though, it is more than just having DNA in common and being on the same genealogy chart. I did a word search through the electronic version of the Baha’i Writings and came up with 3251 hits. Clearly, this is worthy of close …

 

Sackets Harbor woman follows family history back to her doorstep

WatertownDailyTimes.com - ‎Apr 23, 2011‎

 

It reflects on three specific categories which they request whenever authors submit work to their publishing company: American history, local history, and genealogy. “The history of my family in America begins when my emigrant ancestor, …

BU Today

African woman warrior captures BU historian’s passion

BU Today - Susan Seligson, Kalman Zabarsky - ‎10 hours ago‎

A recent fellow at Harvard’s WEB Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Heywood had her DNA tested as part of the African American Lives, Genealogy, and Genetics project featured in a four-part PBS series hosted by institute …

Hi Matt!

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Pets and puns

Monday, April 25th, 2011

This blog is in response to Week 17. Pets. Did you have any pets as a child? If so, what types and what were their names. Do you have pets now? Describe them as well. If you did not have pets, you can discuss those of neighbors or other family members. This challenge runs from Saturday, April 23, 2011 through Friday, April 29, 2011. Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog (http://wetree.blogspot.com/) is responsible!!!

We have a long family tradition of puns as names for our pets. Or at least descriptive quotations. Some examples:

  • The first dog I remember was a rat terrier mix. She was a great watch dog, my father declared. Her name was TickTock.
  • After TickTock we had a fluffy little dog with various degrees of spitz, some sort of herding dog, maybe Corgi, and many other breeds. The dog’s name came from his white feet and an old  TV show: Sugarfoot. Sugarfoot made the news. He bit a child, so we had to take him to the pound. the pound tried to test out a new tranq gun, I believe it was, on him. Sugarfoot was too fast on his feet for them, they never landed a shot on him. He made the Huntsville Times and someone adopted him. If I ever find my childhood scrapbook, I’ll scan in the newspaper article.
  • When our rector gave us one of a litter of kittens, of course we named the cat Lucifer.
  •  When we had a cat that couldn’t seem to see at night very well, bumping into beds and other furniture, his full name became “Long Leggety Beastie and Thing that Goes Bump in the Night”, usually shortened to Long Leggety.  That’s from an old prayer, “From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged-ty beasties, and things that go bump in the night, may the Lord protect us.”
  • We had a cat who would purr, knead and slobber on a wool afghan we had, for all of his long life. He was EddyPuss.
  • When Mark and I were newlyweds, we got a cat, a purebred Himalayan. We stopped by a friend’s house on the way home to show him off. The friend, who at the time managed a Long John Silver’s, put together our name, the Siamese look of him, and came up with Simon CroweCat.

Yeah. We’re sick people!

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