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Many of the death records for the state of Tennessee are available online. Registrations of births and deaths began in 1908 in Tennessee. The Tennessee State Archives and Library web site has created an index that covers nearly 98,000 deaths occurring in Tennessee and recorded between 1908 and 1912. Although deaths were not registered as carefully and regularly as they were beginning in 1914, the index includes all extant records.
Grady Hunter will take his prize-winning entry in the North Carolina State Fair to the grave. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that Hunter won a blue ribbon in this year's crafts and hobbies competition by making his own coffin.
'I'm tickled to death with it," Hunter told the newspaper.
Would you like to search only a specific list of web sites? Do you have your own web site and would like to add a search feature? With the new service from Google, you can create a search engine tailored to your needs
I suspect the most common use of the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) is to create search engines for your own web site. That search engine can search your own site or a list of other sites. For instance, if you publish a web site about Irish genealogy, you could publish an "Irish genealogy search engine" that searches a list of sites that you specify.
The annual Wholly Genes cruise appears to be the largest genealogy cruise of the year. While sponsored by the company that produces The Master Genealogist, a program for Windows, this is not a computer-oriented cruise. About two-thirds of the presentations are about other topics. This cruise has been sold out for months.
In 1772, armed resistance to the King of England's troops in the colonies was growing. Rhode Island was an especially interesting place: the citizens of Newport fiercely supported the King while those who lived in Providence generally wanted no part of the King or his representatives.
According to Wikipedia.org, the HMS Gaspée, a British revenue schooner under the command of Lieutenant William Dudingston, sailed into Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay to aid in the enforcement of customs collection and inspection of cargo. Rhode Island had a reputation for smuggling and trading with the enemy during wartime, and Dudingston and his officers quickly antagonized powerful merchant interests in the small colony. On June 9, 1772, when the Gaspée lay hard aground, a band of Providence members of the Sons of Liberty rowed out to confront the officers and crew before the rising tide allowed the ship to free herself.
For many genealogists, their first experience with county records involves vital statistics, probates, and deeds – in part because they are easier to exploit and because they are familiar to most researchers. The first step a genealogist needs to take is to identify the record group at the county level with the best prospects for answering the question she or he has posed. When one has found them unsatisfactory, the county court minutes should be consulted.
The following announcement was written by Familyrelatives.com:
One of the largest collections of Irish records available is being released online by www.Familyrelatives.com. This forms part of a programme to add more than 10 million new records by the end of this year.
The new sources will contain, Indexes to Irish Wills 1536-1857 (5 Volumes), Irish Genealogical Guide, Quaker Records Dublin Abstracts of Wills, Alumni Dublinense 1593-1846, Ireland Topographical Dictionary, Land Records Ireland, Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815, Irish Names and Surnames, MacDonald’s Directory – 5 counties and the Medical Register for Ireland 2 Volumes. The records contain amongst other material, surnames, year, location and county.
It takes 270 Electoral Votes to win the U.S. Presidential Election. A new web site shows the projected electoral votes for the 2008 election, updated daily as the various public opinion polls release their findings. However, I found the history of electoral votes shown on the site to be much more interesting than today's projections.
Newspapers are the chronicles of life in a community. The size of that community is determined by the scope and interest of the publication and by the population which that newspaper serves. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, focuses on financial and investment news and serves a specific niche, while the New York Times has a global news scope and provides information for readers with many different interests. Other publications may confine their focus and content to a narrower audience. This might include the Christian Observer, America’s oldest Presbyterian news publication that dates back to 1813. Let’s look at where and how you can glean valuable information from some major online newspaper collections.
Modern genealogists are fortunate to have at their disposal so many newspapers that have been digitized and indexed. Many of these are available on the Internet in various places.
The following announcement was written by the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies:
IGG Will Create Online Brooklyn Brides Index for 1910-1930
The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) has awarded the 2008 Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Grant to the Italian Genealogical Group (IGG). The $2,500 grant will be used to create, computerize, and place online an index to the names of women who got married in Brooklyn from 1910 through 1930.
Annie Moore of Ellis Island fame was finally and properly commemorated in both Cork and New York last Friday and Saturday.
On October 10, 2008, a plaque was installed on the last house she lived in before coming to America. You can watch the reveal of the plaque and remarks made by the Lord Mayor of Cork and the U.S. General Consul in the following video. And you can see a charming rendition of what I think of as Annie's song by local children. Tim McCoy, who guided local school children in making a film about Annie last year, was also instrumental in this event.
The following was written by the Board for Certification of Genealogists:
Laura DeGrazia, CG, President of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, announced the retirement of three respected trustees, effective on October 12th, 2008.
Claire Bettag, CG, CGL, of Washington, DC, retired after six years on the board. Claire served as BCG Assistant Secretary and will continue to serve as the Board's Registered Agent. She specializes in researching French and Acadian families of Louisiana. Claire serves on the faculty of Samford University’s Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research. She is an instructor at the National Institute on Genealogical Research, of which she is the former director. She is a former co-editor of the NGS Quarterly.
The following is an announcement from The Generations Network:
AncestryPress--Ancestry's online self-publishing service--has a new name, MyCanvas, and a new website. You can check out the new site by clicking the "Print & Share" tab (formerly the "Publish" tab) on Ancestry.com. Customers who go to www.ancestrypress.com will automatically be forwarded to www.mycanvas.ancestry.com.
This stuff should be outlawed. A certain web site lies to you in an attempt to sell you some worthless anti-virus software.
I recently visited a new web site I had not seen before. A pop-up window appeared and warned that my computer system might be infected with a virus. It asked if I wanted to perform a virus scan. I dislike pop-up ads and never buy anything from such obnoxious advertising methods. I clicked on "Cancel." The system seemingly ignored my cancel request and then appeared to launch a disk scan of my system. Three or four seconds later, the "disk scan" completed, and dire warnings appeared with lots of words in a bright red font. The pop-up was labeled as an "Online Windows security scanner," and it claimed that my computer was infected with viruses.
Wesley E. Pippenger has completed the ninth volume of his Index to Virginia Estates 1800-1865. His approach has been to issue volumes on a cluster of counties, and this latest one features Accomack, Elizabeth City, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Norfolk, Northampton, Princess Anne, Southampton, Warwick, and York Counties, as well as the independent cities of Hampton, Norfolk, and Portsmouth.
The date of the next Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE fair in London has been known for months. However, the organizers have now released an announcement that fills in a lot of details:
Are You Who You Think You Are?
Find out at Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE
The live event format of the hugely popular BBC TV series, which takes celebrities on a journey to discover their ancestral roots takes place for a third consecutive year at London’s Olympia from 27 February – 1 March 09.
Friends of Suddie "Bill" Mumford will want to know about his hospitalization. Bill has been well known for his "Genealogical Software Report Card" although he did stop updating that a while ago. He has been having serious back problems over the past year.
Here is a note that Gordon Hulbert posted to the AFHS distribution list:
Through its partnership with Footnote.com, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and FamilySearch, Footnote.com has worked together to prepare, scan, index and now publish these highly popular original documents. “These are one of the most heavily used series of original records at the National Archives,” said James Hastings, NARA Director of Access Programs.
Having never been microfilmed before, the Civil War Pension Files were previously accessible only at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Now, through this project, anyone can access these records via the internet exclusively on Footnote.com.
The world economies may be in for some rough times ahead. Let's call it a crisis, or even crises. Yet throughout history, every crisis has also brought opportunities. Indeed, our ancestors lived through many recessions and economic downturns. The end result was... us. Most of our ancestors survived the various economic problems of their day and went on to raise families and to prosper in various ways.
Many of us were born as a result of an economic crisis. How many of our ancestors lost their homes and then moved to other places for better economic opportunities? Upon arrival, they or their children met new potential spouses, married, and started new families. Indeed, many of us would not be alive today if it were not for economic crises.
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