Genealogy News

The youngsters of Hackett may not know that at one time, their hometown was a thriving community of saloons, meat markets, drugstores and other businesses brought on by the coal mining and railroad industries.

April 23: The Grand Prairie Memorial Library , Main Branch 900 Conover Dr., Grand Prairie, 75051 has volunteer genealogy members who introduce patrons to the genealogy room in the library on the fourth Wednesday, 10 a.m.-noon.

Emily's Story - The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider WAUKESHA On April 23rd the Waukesha County Genealogical Society will host an evening with Clark Kidder.

The story of an uneducated farmer from Anderson County was buried with him in an unmarked grave in Columbia until one of his descendants unearthed the truth and fought to have him recognized.

Welcome to the Food Manager Classes service for managers employed within the City of Houston, Texas.

Tom Walsh from Carrick-on-Suir a longstanding reader of the Nationalist, looks through the 'Nationalist Centenary Supplement 1890 - 1990' at the Heritage Centre in the town where he worked for many years as a local historian and Genealogist Intriguing stories about a Carrick witch and a Butler family prophecy along with an account of Cromwell's ... (more)

Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree.

The FamilySearch method of creating indexes of old records has been described many times in this newsletter and many other genealogy publications.

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In her new book, Elizabeth Warren blames the controversy over her fake Cherokee ancestry on "some blogger," and since William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection was particularly merciless in exposing her lies , he's giving credit where credit is due: In fact, Warren has no one to blame but herself for her false claim to be Cherokee.

So, when the photographs of all the post commanders, past and present, of American Legion Post 222 in Norton were removed three years ago, Church, 87, took them and made it his goal to reunite them with their original owners and their families.

Tracing your genealogy can be fun. Of course, it's a source of history and family, but it also can help you learn about many medical conditions that may be passed down to the next generation.

Due to a family emergency, David Clark, the scheduled presenter for "Bringing Family History to Life: The Stories We Could Tell" on Wednesday, May 7 has had to cancel his appearance.

A Murrells Inlet woman has a new friend in Michigan after she found a love letter he wrote more than 60 years ago.

Rosa B Garcia born in CO, married Luis Florentino Garcia in 1896. He died in 1927 and is buried in the Masonic cemetery in Trinidad, Las Animas Co, CO.

I am looking for the birth mother, father or any relatives of Andrew Martin Gleeson.

Correspondence: Dr MHD Larmuseau, Laboratory of Forensic Genetics and Molecular Archaeology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Forensic Medicine, Kapucijnenvoer 33, B–3000, Leuven, 3000 Belgium.

Adopted through Lorain County, OH Children's Services. Birth name was Richard Henry Franklin.

If tracing a family tree is something that is of interest, make plans to attend the Family History Fair at the East Brunswick Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 303 Dunhams Corner Road.

After 55 years of praying and searching, David Einfeldt reconnected with the young man who first introduced him to the LDS faith.