Alex from Germany has found another WW2 American Soldier's Dog Tag. You might remember Alex from the Thomas James Lilliard Dog Tag. With the amazing help of my readers, Thomas Lilliard's family was found and the dog tag returned to them. Now Alex wants our help to find the family of Donald G. Watts whose dog tag photo and information is below. Let's send Donald's dog tag home! You can comment here on this blog post with information you find, but if concerns individuals who may be living, please send it to me privately at olivetreegenealogyATgmail.com (replace AT with ...

Lionel Richie is tonight's guest on Who Do You Think You Are. Ancestry.com has once again partnered with NBC in Season 2 of Who Do You Think You Are? Great music runs deep! Lionel unravels the ancestral mystery of his beloved grandmother, a music teacher. He also finds his grandfather's secret on this episode. Don't miss this episode tonight at 8/7 Central on NBC. I've got a bag of chips, can of pop (soda) and supper is in the slow cooker. I'm all set! This has become my favourite weekly show on TV  

Entries Jan 1-8, 1897-1919 Several years ago I purchased an account book kept by a local shoemaker living in or near the communities of CrossCreek and Ritsey's Cove, Lunenburg Nova Scotia. There are no identifying notations to tell me who the shoemaker was, so I researched the names of his customers found in the book. I found them all living in CrossCreek and Ritsey's Cove so I assume the shoemaker lived nearby. The entries I read date from 1897 to 1919. There may be some earlier or later - they are not in date order. Whoever kept the account book decided to keep track of ...

Jan 4, 1914. Sunday P.C. [postcard?] from J.T. to meet him tonight. Walk around Harry's [?] [rest of entry is water stained]Note: Ada mentions this "J.T" quite a bit in the first part of her diary. It seems he was a suitor, and I hope his full name will be revealed!

 Dec. 21, 1904 Ada as Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Several years ago I purchased a tiny diary kept throughout 1914 during WW1 by Ada Harland. Ada lived in Falsgrave, Scarborough, Yorkshire England and wrote in her little book almost daily. The 3x2 inch book is difficult to read as Ada was a prolific writer and crammed as much as she could on to each page. Along with the diary was a photo of Ada and a letter dated Dec. 31, 1914 from "Bertie" in Salisbury Plain England. Bertie was with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) which ...

 Dec. 21, 1904 Ada as Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Several years ago I purchased a tiny diary kept throughout 1914 during WW1 by Ada Harland. Ada lived in Falsgrave, Scarborough, Yorkshire England and wrote in her little book almost daily. The 3x2 inch book is difficult to read as Ada was a prolific writer and crammed as much as she could on to each page. Along with the diary was a photo of Ada and a letter dated Dec. 31, 1914 from "Bertie" in Salisbury Plain England. Bertie was with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) which ...

 Dec. 21, 1904 Ada as Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Several years ago I purchased a tiny diary kept throughout 1914 during WW1 by Ada Harland. Ada lived in Falsgrave, Scarborough, Yorkshire England and wrote in her little book almost daily. The 3x2 inch book is difficult to read as Ada was a prolific writer and crammed as much as she could on to each page. Along with the diary was a photo of Ada and a letter dated Dec. 31, 1914 from "Bertie" in Salisbury Plain England. Bertie was with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) which ...

This was my Grandmother Ruth's Ruby ring. I've written before about my Grandmother before in posts "Happy Birthday Grandma Ruth", My Missing Grandmother and other stories. From the time I can remember Grandma told me it would be mine one day. When Grandma passed away in 1985 the ring went to my cousin and I was devastated. Grandma loved that ring and wore it every day. It personified her for me as she loved the colour red and even into her 80s she wore red pantsuits with a crisp white blouse. And topping it off - the ruby ring. I have not seen the ring in the past 25 years. My cousin ...

Exciting News! I was invited to become an official RootsTech 2011 Blogger and I've accepted. I'm so honoured and excited to be attending this 3 day conference in Salt Lake City as an official blogger. RootsTech is hosted by FamilySearch and focuses on the combination of Technology and Genealogy. It is being held 10–12 February 2011 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah Quoting from the RootsTech website The first annual RootsTech Conference will be a gathering of both family history enthusiasts and technologists from around the world. Genealogy ...

A few years ago I discovered a very interesting set of immigration records. While searching New York records on microfilm, I stumbled on a set of Almshouse Records which had the names of ships the Almshouse inmaates sailed on to America (which included USA and Canada). Often the year of arrival was also given. Many of these records are now transcribed and online on Olive Tree Genealogy and

For those seeking their Canadian roots - what sites have Canadian census records? There is an updated Comparison Chart on "All Census Records which lists available projects for the Canadian census records (with clickable links) It has been Updated with Ancestry"s and FamilySearch new holdingsYou may want to take a look at Quick Start Canada (a Census Comparison Chart)

If you have Limerick Ireland ancestors the following will be of great interest to you! Limerick Ireland Private Papers and Business Collections can be searched online. The following genealogy databases are available to genealogists:* Limerick Chamber of Commerce 1807-1946* Maurice Lenihan Papers, 1759-1875* Bedford Row Lying-In Hospital, 1868-1971* Rentals and Particulars of Sale, 1808-1923* P18

Limerick City Council has become the first local authority in the country toput its burial registers on-line.Burial records for the city’s largest cemetery, Mount Saint Lawrence,dating back more than 150 years will now be easily available to the public over the internetIt is now possible to access a copy of the original handwritten entries of burials in Mount St Lawrence cemetery, from 1855

This is very interesting - another freebie from NewspaperARCHIVE.com They"ve unlocked every front page of their newspapers, which means you can look through millions of unique newspaper front pages.Just tick off the box labeled "Front Pages Only", type your word or phrase into the Keyword spot and your search will return results from newspapers from 1759 to 2008. You can read about the very first

A source in the UK who has been doing her own transcription of the 1861 Toronto census, wrote to me to share a very interesting (but disturbing) problem with the new 1861 Canada census on Ancestry.comMy correspondent states:For the past few years I have been working on my own transcription of the Toronto Ontario census for 1861. When the Ancestry.com index and film came online last night I was