Don’t Marcia and I look really good? Marcia and I were in the same high school graduating class back in 1961 and we have not seen each other since……… until last Saturday. I gave a presentation to the Jefferson County (WA) Gen Soc and as Marcia lives near, she came! It was just grand. Wherever did those FIFTY YEARS go???? Harriet DeWolfe from Whidbey Island was there….. anybody remember her in our tour family?? Any interesting news from any of you?? Lloyd Welker from Florida emailed to ask me if I was sick of winter yet. DUH! AM I!! I’m craving the ...

27th March will be a historic day, as people all over Britain come together to complete the 2011 National Census. As we fill in details of our homes, occupations and relationships, it?s fascinating to look back at our ancestors who have done exactly the same thing every ten years for more than a century. On [] Related posts:Free Family History Search Tracing one’s roots can be challenging. This is because of Announcing Family Tree Maker 2011 Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting on your Free Genealogy Is Not Dead, And Should Be Around For Free Genealogy Is Not ...

Each month we'll release a new collection of carefully selected, discounted products to help you achieve your genealogy goals. A limited number of copies of each collection will be available, so get ‘em while the getting’s good. For March, we've put together the Ultimate Family History Starter Collection. This multimedia bundle brings you our most invaluable tips, tricks and how-tos to help you jump start your genealogy research. There are only 50 copies of this collection left for March. The Ultimate Family History Starter Collection contains: ...

DearREADERS,In previous blog posts, Ol' Myrt here experimented with WikiTree.com and some embeddable widgets. See:DearMYRTLE's WikiTree: 5 generation updatable pedigree widget BETADearMYRTLE's Embedding a pedigree chart in your blog?With today's email comes news that Chris Whitten the genuis behind WikiTree has made the embeddable family tree widgets available for all bloggers and website owners: 22 March 2011 - WikiTree.com WikiTree is proud to announce the release of its new “widgets” that enable you to freely display a family tree ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial ground in Kent where around a hundred people were laid to rest. The site - dating back to the late Roman era - is on the former Hallets garage site in Canterbury's St Dunstan's. Experts have found hardly any grave goods and since most of the bodies are lying east/west they are believed to be mainly Christian. The excavation is being carried by Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Director Paul Bennett said it was proving to be an exceptionally busy site, with later Anglo-Saxon rubbish pits and buildings. Source & Full Story

My apologies to the Wizard of Oz folks. IF I ONLY HAD A CLUE… I could while away the hoursConsulting with some web sitesOf family history fame I could save the data to my discShare it with my Uncle FritzIf I only had a clue. There’s my mother’s second cousinOur e-mails would be buzzingIf I could understand How to trace things back to AdamOr at least beyond my GrammaIf I only had a clue. OH WHY, just tell me whyThe internet is popular with some?I can’t find a thing perhaps becauseI am all THUMBS….And haven’t begun. I’d be absolutely ...

By Myra Lee Adams Goff In 1980, a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark was designated here in Comal County. This landmark is the grotto right behind the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The story behind this particular designation is important to all of us because it reminds us of that dreaded word “Pandemic” that we became so familiar with just a few years back. Don’t we have flu every year? Yes. Do we have flu pandemics every year? No. In 1918 a flu pandemic (epidemic on a large scale) broke out worldwide killing an estimated 50 to 100 million people in the world with ...

Facebook is well-known as a service that exposes a lot of your private information. Just ask Richard Barton Jr. of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It seems that Barton recently got married and, like many newlyweds, he posted pictures of the wedding on Facebook. However, he seems to have forgotten that his first wife, the one he had not yet divorced, could see the pictures along with everyone else.

Adina Quarto married Barton in 2004 but the couple soon split up. Barton "defriended" Quarto on Facebook earlier this year. Unfortunately, defriending does not block access to every photo, ...

It's easy! I promise. If you enjoy the steady stream of free records added weekly to FamilySearch.org (over 11.5 million International records and 2 million U.S. records were added just last week), please consider "giving back" by contributing a little time online as a FamilySearch Indexing volunteer. You can do as little or as much as you would like - at any time of the day or night (and yes, while in your comfy pajamas!).

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9 Million Browsable Images from 9 Countries Added This Week

New Records for Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, U.S., and Venezuela

The bounty just keeps coming from FamilySearch’s digital pipeline. Mexico collections earned the top spot this week, with nearly 5 million new browsable images added. The Mexico records date from 1545 to 1984. In addition to Mexico, FamilySearch continued this week to strengthen its free online international collections by ...

I recently wrote (at http://goo.gl/2GCK8) about the release of Internet Explorer version 9. Now a number of newsletter readers have written to tell that Mozilla has officially announced the final, official, release of Firefox version 4.0. Past versions of Firefox have been considered by most users to be safer, faster, and more bug-free than Internet Explorer. It's too early to tell if the latest version 4 remains that much better than Internet Explorer version 9, but early indications look promising. Even better, unlike Internet Explorer version 9, Firefox 4 works well on Windows XP ...

The following News Release was received from Paul Nauta at FamilySearch: 9 Million Browsable Images from 9 Countries Added This Week New Records for Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, U.S., and Venezuela The bounty just keeps coming from FamilySearch’s digital pipeline. Mexico collections earned the top spot this week, with nearly 5 million new browsable images added. The Mexico records date from 1545 to 1984. In addition to Mexico, FamilySearch continued this week to strengthen its free online international collections by expanding 7 more of its ...

Wild mood swings mark the adolescent phase of a year. We call this phase spring. On Monday balmy sunshine calls for short sleeves and sandals, and Tuesday it may snow. Even so, watching tenuous green shoots emerge from ground and branches keeps hope alive, reminding us that seeds will soon turn into early produce, we’ll romp in shorts, and the season of “easy living” is just around the corner.

Although I generally spurn ritual observances, I do have rituals for greeting spring. I wrote about one of my annual rites, a walk down the road to look for the first ...

When I got back from the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show in London at the end of February, I not only had a bag full of dirty laundry, but a slew of recorded interviews with fascinating genealogy experts, exhibit hall brochures, treasured purchases and a mountain of digital photographs.

After firing up the washing machine, I sat down at my desk and wondered what I would do with all those JPEG jewels. Photographs capture once-in-a-lifetime moments and treasured family memories that we certainly don’t want to forget. But assembling them in a way that ...

About a year ago, I installed Traces of the Past on my iPhone. It is (or was) an application that searches hundreds of millions of freely available historical records from countries all over the world. I wrote about it at the time at http://blog.eog...-iphone.html Now Traces of the Past has been discontinued, according to an announcement from producing company Truscape Solutions. Quoting from the company's web site at http://www.trac...hepast.com/:

We regret to announce that support for Traces of the Past has been ...