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Less Common Ancestry for Each State
Nov 13
Less common heritage can turn out to be a major majority in certain American states. Over the years, groups of immigrates can tend to settle in specific territories which later became states. It is true even in more recent times, those of a certain ethnic heritage want to be with others of a similar background. With the site, Most Unusual Ancest...
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Veterans Day
Nov 11
It was the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when an armistice was signed ending the 'Great War', the war to end all wars. However, as we know from history, that name would later become World War One. In 1921, was when an unknown World War I American soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. It would become known offic...
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Mustard Gas
Nov 9
New data is becoming available, this time on US veterans who were exposed to mustard gas in experiments conducted by the United States during the 1940s. The information is coming from the Department of Veteran Affairs. The purpose of such testing was to see the physical effects on soldiers and how protective the use of special suits and mas...
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Using WikiTree
Nov 3
For 2015, one of the top genealogical free sites to use is WikiTree. Its rank (done by Genealogy in Time Magazine) in 2014 compared to all the other free and paid genealogical sites was 21st. In 2015, it rose in rank to 15th. There are some 10.9 million individuals in the listings contributed by over 275,000 family history researchers. WikiTree f...
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Photos of America – 1935-1945
Oct 25
Eighty years ago, 1935, America was still in the Great Depression era. Ten years later, 1945, the country was just coming out the second World War. Such tragedies for many of your ancestors to suffer through. Yale University along with the Library of Congress have put together over 170,000 photos and made them digital producing the site Photogr...
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U. S. Federal Censuses
Oct 10
Anyone who doing their family history has to go over every U. S. Federal Census record that their ancestors might have been recorded on. The official census taking started in 1790. These serve as historic records of a specific time and place with a person's name. Unfortunately, the first six decades (1790 to 1840) it was just the head of the hous...
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StoryCorps
Oct 1
This organization, StoryCorps, since 2003 has recorded ordinary individuals to save their story, no matter how big or small a story they wish to preserve. These recorded stories are preserved at the Library of Congress in their American Folklife Center archive. There are over 60,000 such stories now saved. All it takes is a little bit of time to...
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Adoptee Finds Mother with Use of Social Media
Sep 9
Social media connects people from all across the world in ways that simply were not possible before the advent of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the rest. It makes sense that adoptees are using social media to find their birth parents. Every so often, there is a news story about an adoptee that had success. PilotOnline.com has a story about 52-...
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Hartman & Others Database
Sep 3
Back in the early 1980s, Don and Jeannie Hartman began making their collection of family genealogy in digital format. From there they placed their collection (vital records, notes, photos, family trees, etc) online to share with others. As it turned out they had a massive collection of many surnames besides 'Hartman'. The family was from Pennsylv...
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Find the Humor
Aug 7
You are busy collection and researching the vital records on your ancestors, did you ever spot some notation or phrase that made you break out into full blown laughter?? So where might you find such humor? Start by really examining what was written in an ancestor's Will. Many times the decease had the last word, by placing some unusual or strange ...