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“BREAKING THE SILENCE” OR SILENCING THE CRITICS? - (USA)
Louis Frankenthaler Settlers in Hebron harass a cameraman from a Breaking the Silence tour of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, June 2008. (Anne Paq/ ActiveStills ) “Breaking the Silence” is a member of the Israeli human rights, peace and social justice community. The group’s only crime, so it seems, lies in its effort to offer an alternative ethical voice in a society that is arguably losing its way. Breaking the Silen
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/breaking-the-silence-or-silencing-the-critics/
Research Roadblock: Names - (USA)
Do all genealogists encounter roadblocks like this? The topic for the 22 nd edition of the Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy is roadblocks and breakthroughs. I like the using the term “roadblock” for those genealogy research problems rather than the term “brickwall” because a roadblock seems more like an obstacle I can “get around” or overcome. We can always detour our way around a roadblock; knocking down a brickwall is possible, but it requires some heavy duty equipment.
http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/research-roadblock-names/
WELCOME TO THE FAMILY - (USA)
Posted by Sheila Connolly This week I solved an eighty-year-old mystery. Looking back, I realized once again how close genealogy and mystery writing are: I used all the processes of collecting evidence and studying personalities and making intelligent inferences (and a few wild guesses) that any good detective would. As I may have mentioned (ad nauseum), I've been a genealogist for years, both professionally and for my own personal interest. My great-grandmother Mabel Barton Floyd started t
http://writersplot.typepad.com/writersplot/2008/11/welcome-to-the-family.html
Pioneer Historical Society - (USA)
Pioneer Historical Society Information
http://www.farmingtoniowa.com/pioneerhistoricalsociety.html
How Can You Use the Results of Birth Records Search? - (USA)
One of the types of public records that are commonly searched is the birth records. This piece of information is valuable for many people, thus the demand for it continues to increase. There are also many instances when the results of this search would be very important. There are genealogy searches and the family history study that makes the results of these documents very important. With the start of the information age, there are more people that use the Internet in gathering information ab
http://nikkypals.com/archives/2431
The Political Graveyard - (USA)
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 180,022 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html
Old Fort Genealogical Society P - (USA)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oldfort/
IAJGS: New officers elected - (USA)
Tracing the Tribe congratulates Michael Goldstein of Israel on his election to the helm of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Associations, the umbrella group for some 75 worldwide societies. I have spent quite some time meeting with and speaking with Michael over this past year and in Chicago at the conference. I believe that his election will assuredly breathe new life into this group - something that has been sorely needed for a number of years. He brings a wide world view
http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2009/08/iajgs-new-officers-elected.html
I Am So Thankful - (USA)
--- for my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. --- for my wonderful loving wife, Angel Linda, who makes every day special. --- for my two beautiful and smart daughters, and their great husbands, who work so hard to do so well in order to live securely. --- for my four precious grandchildren, so innocent and with so much potential, and so much fun to be with. --- for my enthusiastic father, who provided a large New England ancestry to research and an undying love for the game of baseball. --- fo
http://www.geneamusings.com/2008/11/i-am-so-thankful.html
RootsWeb: SCT-GLASGOW-L Re: [SCT-GLASGOW] Scottish genealogy blog - (USA)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SCT-GLASGOW/2007-12/1198452309
I am a Pilgrim Descendant - Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate tomorrow - (USA)
I had a very special experience this week, preparing for Thanksgiving. A few years ago, my Dad reached an amazing discovery as he was working on our genealogy. He found the documents and proof through a distant relative that he met online that we are able to prove our Mayflower connection in our bloodline. We are descended from James Chilton, who got all the way to Plymouth, MA and then died on the ship before they got off. His young daughter carried on the bloodline. My father went through
http://www.drsallywitt.com/i-am-a-pilgrim-descendant-happy-thanksgiving-to-all-who-celebrate-tomorrow/
Donald Mosher Memorial Award for Colonial Virginia Research - (USA)
PRESS RELEASE Contact Beverly Rice, CG (sm) MosherAward@bcgcertification.org The Donald Mosher Memorial Award for Colonial Virginia Research is a $500 grant established in 2001 by Merrill Hill Mosher, cg(sm) in honor of her late husband. This Award was created to encourage the study and publication of Colonial Virginia records of the 17th and 18th centuries. The award can be granted for work in three categories: family genealogy, immigrant origins, or publications. This award can be granted to
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2008/11/donald-mosher-memorial-award-for.html
Iran: A People Interrupted, Hamid Dabashi - (USA)
When I was in high school, and my mum was getting her master’s degree in pastoral theology, she used to read us excerpts from her textbooks. Sometimes these were interesting, like about Jesus’s genealogy in the Gospel of Matthew and how it’s implying that Mary was sexually suspect. But mostly she was reading bits aloud to us as an illustration of theologians’ complete inability to express themselves clearly. I have no patience with writers who can’t make a sensible sentence – read C.S. Lewis,
http://jennysbooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/iran-a-people-interrupted-hamid-dabashi/
Pilgrim Ancestors, by Michael John Neill - (USA)
My family never passed down any stories of Pilgrim forebears. Since 75 percent of my ancestors were mid-nineteenth-century immigrants, it’s not surprising. I never even gave any serious thought to having ancestors on the Mayflower. My genealogy research was not started out of any desire to have “famous” or “first” relatives, and in most cases I had difficulty getting back to the 1700s in my American lines much less the 1620s. Regular readers of my columns may recall I have one set of great-gre
http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=3075
BYUGEN Tweets - (USA)
Here is a collection of my tweets from the BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy: Keynote by David Rencher, AG, CG, Chief Genealogical Officer, BYU grad, past Pres FGS, plus much more In overflow room. Too bad half of the slides are cut off. Hard to give up what we are used to. Card catalog to microfiche to computer. Goal of FamilySearch is to remove barriers to family history in their own products. FamilySearch Labs is a workshop. Good use and feedback might lead to a finish
http://www.thinkgenealogy.com/2009/08/03/byugen-tweets/
Events calendar Aug. 9, 2009 - (USA)
MOSTLY FOR ADULTS Parents should determine appropriateness for children Wildwood Manor House tours: “Built in the 1930s in the Georgian Colonial style, this home was the family estate of Robert A. Stranahan, co-founder of Champion Spark Plug Co., and his wife, Page.” Tours at quarter after and quarter till the hour noon-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays through November, Wildwood Preserve Metropark, 5100 W. Central Ave. (419) 535-3056. Wolcott House tours: Visitors will get an intimate (ahem) look
http://www.toledofreepress.com/2009/08/07/events-calendar-aug-9-2009/
Wisdom from the wide, weird world of the emergency room… - (USA)
Friendly advice from the emergency room Years of working in an emergency room have given me a lot of ‘worldly wisdom’. I was reviewing some of this in my mind just the other day, and it occurred to me that it would be wrong to hoard all of this myself. Everyone needs access to these little pearls, these ‘Hippocratic Aphorisms’, if only to avoid future embarrassment. So here are a few ‘Emergency Proverbs’, to make all of my readers wiser in the coming year. 1) D
http://edwinleap.com/blog/?p=252
Smoky Mountain Historical Society - (USA)
Contains history of the Smoky Mountain area of Tennessee.
http://www.smokykin.com/smhs/
SNGF: Genealogy Threes - (USA)
Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings has posted his weekly Saturday Night Genealogical Fun challenge and I thought I might give it a go. The challenge is to give three responses to the following statements: * Three genealogical libraries I frequent True confessions: I don't get out much. Seriously. Between looking for full-time employment and running various blogs like GeneaBloggers , as well as working on genealogy presentations to give over the next few months, I am not left with much
http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/2009/08/sngf-genealogy-threes.html
WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE BRADT FAMILY SOCIETY - (USA)
WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE BRADT FAMILY SOCIETY. Especially for Brott, Bratt, Vanderzee, Brodt, and Van Bradt descendents of Arent and Albert Andriessen Bradt.
http://bradtfamilysocie.pages.web.com/
HQRL Announces their Annual Autumn Quest - to be held in Tacoma, Washington - (USA)
The following announcement was received from Jim Johnson, at the Heritage Quest Research Library, in Sumner, Washington. HQRL is proud to announce that the program for the Heritage Quest Research Library Autumn Quest Seminar to be held at the Tacoma Elks Club on October 10, 2009 will be “Digging for your Ancestors Using Google” by Daniel M. Lynch of Waterbury, Connecticut. Dan is the author of the best selling book: “Google Your Family Tree” and is a nationally known speaker. Dan is a me
http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=5524
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http://www.bowdlers.com/
Lanark County Genealogical Society -- Main Menu - (USA)
Did your ancestors live in Lanark County, Ontario? Fast and intuitive surname searches on this site may give you leads to your genealogy research.
http://globalgenealogy.com/LCGS/index.htm
The Quaker Corner - (USA)
A repository of resources for enhancing your Quaker genealogical research!
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quakers/index.htm
Holiday Deal: NEHGS Offers Family Discovery Package - (USA)
The New England Historical and Genealogical Society is excited to offer a new research package to help beginning genealogists get started with their family history. The “Family Discovery Package” makes a great holiday gift for a loved one, or even for yourself. Using information that you submit, our expert genealogists will begin the work for you and provide suggestions for additional research. This special package includes: *1.5 hours of an NEHGS expert genealogy research *1
http://ancestories1.blogspot.com/2008/11/holiday-deal-nehgs-offers-family.html
A Is for Adam – The Gospel from Genesis - (USA)
A Is for Adam The Gospel from Genesis Children will delight in the colorful illustrations and rhymes herein that teach about creation and the gospel. This three-part family book is an ABC book, a coloring book and a home-devotional teaching book. User Ratings and Reviews 5 Stars Great Book First, a word to the negative reviewers. I’m reminded of a quote I heard a few years ago, on another topic, but it fits very well he
http://www.goddiscussion.com/1076/a-is-for-adam-the-gospel-from-genesis/
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