The UK subscription and pay-per-view data service FamilyRelatives.com has upped its content for Irish researchers. The collection released today includes land records, the Ireland Topographical Dictionary (with descriptions of counties, cities, boroughs, corporate markets, post towns, parishes, and villages—good things to know about for finding your ancestors' records), indexes and abstracts of wills as far back as the 1400s, and more. The abstracts of wills are significant because they were first published ...

George Culwick, 87, became separated from sister Lucy Heenan, 88, when he began travelling all over the country with his engineering firm in his 20s.

But three months ago the pensioner attended a family ancestry meeting and discovered through another relative that Mrs Heenan had been living in Langley, Birmingham – a few minutes away from the home in Quinton in which he lived for decades.

"I thought Lucy was dead because I hadn't seen or heard of her for so long, so this has all come as a real shock," said George. "Meeting her again after all these ...

The generally accepted method for recording place names is to begin with the smallest locality first and then up to the largest. You would therefore begin with the town or city name, then the county or district name, then the state or province name, and lastly the country name. In the GeneaNet database, data is indexed in a semicolon-separated list as shown below: BAXTER;1846;1846;1;Palgrave,IP22,Suffolk,England;SFK;ENG;GBR BAXTER;1778;1829;4;Diss,IP22,Suffolk,England;SFK;ENG;GBR

Fields:

- Surname - Start Date - End Date - Number of entries ...

Skype provides free conference calling capabilities for up to 10 participants - the caller and 9 others. This offers society boards, committees, project teams and even family groups a low-cost way to meet and collaborate on projects and events. While it’s quite easy to initiate a conference call, managing a successful conference call can be a challenge. This section describes how to use Skype’s conference call features and offers tips for planning and managing your call to support the real tasks at hand. Before You Begin Skype takes advantage of peer-to-peer technology to ...

Clue 4:

Pennsylvanians are in me. But I am not in Pennsylvania.

I am not the one on Pennsylvania; I am north of Pennsylvania, too.

 

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Years ago it was Enron "cooking the books" by under-valuing losses and over-valuing stock, just so the big bosses could sell and make millions. Those are the exact millions many Enron inventors lost when reality caught up with such illegal activities. More recently, the outgoing AIG boss asked that last year"s bonus calculations wouldn"t include the losses that took place in the same time period. (Gosh, the ...

SALT LAKE CITY 7 October 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today gave more details about the locations of the five new temples announced by President Thomas S. Monson at the Church’s general conference in Salt Lake City on Saturday

The Philadelphia temple will be built in downtown Philadelphia, at North Broad Street between Hamilton Street and Noble Street. Several other temples occupy urban sites, ...

We have talked about Loyalist Petitions for land and the UCLP in other blog posts. There can be many bits and pieces of affidavits, letters, etc in a Loyalist petition for land. These are all important to the genealogy researcher. But one part of any petition which is often overlooked by researchers is the outside flap or envelope of the entire bundle. The outside envelope holds important clues

In my recent security class, one of the topics discussed was social engineering. This is defined as the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. By collecting bits of information from different people, an attacker can learn enough about a network to gain access. On the personal level, social engineering is used to scam individuals into giving up passwords or account information. Consumer Reports has developed a WebWatch: Look Before You Click site with great tips to protect yourself while you’re online. Recently they added this video ...

If you’re interested in dipping a toe into the world of volunteer historical records indexing, Ancestry.com's free World Archives Project Webinar might be for you. The hour-long Webinar will explain details such as how World Archives Project indexing works, the time commitment and benefits to volunteers. It's Thursday, Oct. 23 at 8 pm EDT, and you can register on Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com also holds free Webinars on such ...

The UK National Archives has launched its Digital Microfilm Project:

Digital Microfilm is a project piloting a new way to deliver records online. The National Archives has a large collection of microfilmed records, and by making these available online we hope to increase their accessibility. This will ultimately allow the microfilm readers used at The National Archives, Kew to be retired.

We have digitised four records series of military and naval records. If the project is successful, we intend to ...

PathWiz! 8 has been released.

New Features:

• Automatic screen size adjustment to give a 'as big as possible' frame for the 'Filter' screens available under [View/Modify] plus a [Screen] button to allow a shorter screen for use on widescreen monitors or on a flat panel TV. • An 'Advanced' mode with 3 options: - 1. The ability to output to disk files both Internal Exhibits, and External exhibits to reduced size 'skinny' files (a la Thumbnails) stored in the exhibits table. These are saved as files with the exhibit number in a single ...

Behold 0.98.9.9 alpha has been released.

Improved:

• Change all menu items and web update scripts to point to the new beholdgenealogy.com website.

Fixed:

• Eliminate crash caused by a NOTE followed by a CONC tag with text formatted as like a link in a GEDCOM file. • Allow Trailer 2 and Trailer 3 to be unselected and not printed if Trailer 1 is selected. • Display some words from the Organize Reports page that were not displaying correctly.

In the September 2008 issue's Toolkit, we revealed the answers to our readers' most common desktop dilemmas—answering questions such as how to print sideways, how to safely shop online and how to enlarge text on Web sites. David Pogue of The New York Times recently posted in his blog 26 more basic tech tips—for using computers, cameras and the Internet—including gems like these: You can double-click a word to highlight it in any document, e-mail or Web page. ...

Clue 3:

Pennsylvanians are in me. But I am not in Pennsylvania.

I am north of Pennsylvania.

 

I"ll give you one clue per day, posted at noon Utah time. Post your one official guess to the first message on Monday. If you change your mind, delete the old guess and post the new guess. The earliest dated correct answer wins. I"ll announce where I was on Friday. Stay tuned

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