Do you like this story? Today, 31 January 2011, Karen at the " AncesTree Sprite " blog posted the entry, " Assumptions Can Be So VERY Wrong! " This blog entry should be read by all genealogists, for it details errors concerning Karen herself that have popped up on various online family trees.
Registration is now underway for the annual genealogy seminar hosted by the Carteret County Historical Society.
I am searching for any information on the parents of Martha Ann Lewis. She was born on Aug 8 1834 in Upper Middletown Penn.
How would you like to be able to see and navigate your Ancestry.com family tree on your iPhone or iPad so you can more easily share family stories visually? How would you like to be able to view the Census and other records you’ve attached to people in your Ancestry.com family tree on your iPhone or iPad at your next family gathering? Well good news – now there’s an app for that.
Today, we announced the availability of an enhanced version of our iPhone app, Ancestry, that now has universal support for the iPad and offers several new features:
Built with the tablet experience in mind, the new Ancestry app brings to life on iPad’s large screen multi-generational family trees complete with images of original family records and photos, making iPad a powerful tool for you to display and share your trees with family and friends in an interactive, highly visual way.
Don’t have an iPad or an iPhone? Don’t despair – we’re carefully considering the creation of an Android version of the Ancestry app down the road. Stay tuned for more info.
A while back we discussed the importance of including family history and genealogy for Springfield area homeschoolers .
January 31, 2011 You are Invited: Genealogy Jeopardy at the Saturday EOGN Dinner at RootsTech in Salt Lake City Join us for dinner! Join us for door prizes! Join us for Genealogy Jeopardy! After dinner, match your knowledge of genealogy technology with that of three prominent genealogists.
Hello, I am looking for information of my second cousin Lawrence F Loughran. Lawrence Junior was born in 1939 in Rainhill, Lancashire , his parents were Lawrence Loughran & Annie Loughran , his father's side of the family came from Ireland.
Searching for birth parents of: Richard Joseph Maxwell b nov. 28, 1928 d sept. 2, 2002 aka Dick, Dickie McGath.
Passport applications can be great finds, with names, birthplaces, parents, occupations, and other details. Our latest update to the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925, database added almost 250,000 new records to the collection, and they include four different types of U.S. passport applications. I didn’t know there were four types until recently, when the NARA website brought me up to speed.
Regular
The majority of applications were simply regular applications made by citizens planning to travel overseas. NARA notes that the earliest applications were typically just handwritten letters, though printed forms became the norm in the mid-19th century. In 1923, at age 65, Lionel Henry Moise applied for a passport to make his first trip abroad with his wife of three years to her homeland of Australia (with stops in Tahiti and New Zealand):
Emergency
Say you’re publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and after a month or two in Paris, you decide you want to pop down to Spain. What do you do? Apply for an emergency passport. These passports were issued abroad and were good for 6 months. NARA notes that the first emergency passports were issued in 1874, and the practice was discontinued in 1926.
Special
These can include diplomatic and other passports issued under special circumstances. For example, this update includes a collection of Passport Applications of Wives of Members of the A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) in Europe, 1919–1920. Mary Josephine Moore, of Queenstown, Ireland, was applying to follow her husband, U.S. Navy Coxswain William Thomas Moore, back to Evanston, Illinois:
The AEF applications also include Affidavits in Lieu of Passports, like the one submitted by Hildegard Meyer Herzberg, who, after her marriage was in limbo between German and American citizenship:
Insular Possessions
These were passports issued from territories controlled by the U.S., including Hawaii (1916–1924), Puerto Rico (1915–1922), and the Philippines (1901–1924), where Professor G.O. Ocfenia was returning after his stay in Madison, Wisconsin:
As I’ve mentioned before, my own ancestors didn’t do much globetrotting after they got to America, but I still managed to find one great-grandfather and his son in the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925, collection. Apparently they even crossed paths in Europe. With almost a quarter million new records, who knows who might be waiting there for you.
January 30, 2011 How to Create a Subscription Web Site - Part #1 Many genealogy societies and other organizations would like to create web sites that have some pages visible to the general public and other pages that are visible only to members or to paid subscribers.