Civil War Days a family event
Civil War Days seems to bring out the family in people: Family history for some, family togetherness for others.
After being bitten by the Civil War buff bug, Bill Lopez of Albany discovered a fascinating twist in his family tree.
The Star Press, Indiana
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Confederate graves
Forgotten Tenn. cemetery yields Confederate graves
On a little hill overlooking the Cumberland Mountains, weeds and brush are being cleared from a neglected family cemetery, revealing a tall sentry-like beech tree and a forgotten past. Who is entombed here?
"I was afraid that during my lifetime I would never know," said 88-year-old Alice Coker, a retired public health worker who has been tracking the mystery for half a century.
Descendants have recently provided the answer. These were Civil War soldiers, members of the 58th Confederate Regiment of North Carolina.
The Florida Times-Union
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So who do you think you are? And would you really want to know if you found out?
Genealogy is gripping the nation
Answering its own ancestral call to inform, educate and entertain, the BBC this week launches not only a series on genealogy but a whole nation-participation package on the theme.
There's a new website and a pull-out guide in the centre of the current Radio Times to help you research your family tree.
Independent.co.uk

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The bones of her ancestors
Unlike most Africans living in America by way of the transatlantic slave trade, Margaret Durham knows exactly where she came from.
The St. Louis resident is a descendent of the Yao tribe in Malawi, in southern Africa. Her tribe's name means "the land of the sun."
It wasn't until her father died in 1988 and she watched the epic TV mini-series Roots that she became interested in climbing her family's ancestral tree.
The St. Louis Amarican
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Groundbreaking project
Search for Washington ancestors gets tool
At a recent meeting of the Clark County Genealogical Society, Andrea Watts, coordinator for the Washington State Archives Historical Records Project, reported that Washington's secretary of state has embarked on a "groundbreaking project" that allows people to search for their Washington ancestors and do research for Washington history using online historical records.
The Columbian, Clark County, Washington
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Dirty Secrets
Ever wonder what dirty secrets are hidden in your family closet?
Nan Enkey has found some of her family's secrets as she has researched her family tree over the past few decades. She once had an uncle in the moonshine business during Prohibition, something she didn't know until she started digging.
Tahlequah Daily Press, Oklahoma

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A lost soldier from Mississippi
Local groups offer help with family histories
Somewhere in Martha Ramsey's family history is a lost soldier from Mississippi. He started out fighting for the Confederate army in the Civil War, became disillusioned and joined the "Yankees," as Ramsey calls the Union army.
For the past year and a half, Ramsey has been stuck at a roadblock, trying to find out more about this man. Her search has turned up three different names, but she knows him as William Anderson.
Daytona Beach News-Journal

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More lessons from the past
Second of two parts.
Since my article on genealogical discoveries at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, I have received many calls and e-mails from people who are excited about the prospects of finding out more about their family lines.
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky

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International Genealogy Festival
Unique first for Sligo
Bishop of Elphin Christy Jones opened a unique first for Sligo when he launched the International Genealogy Festival that took place over the weekend.He described it as an "historic event" and one that gives us a better understanding of our ancestors.
Sligo Weekender, Ireland

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Piecing together family puzzles
Genealogy is a puzzle Lucia Headen can't quite piece together, but she refuses to give up.
Her addiction started with a simple question posed by her children, who wondered about their relation to a man in a Tennessee newspaper obituary.
The Hearald-Sun, Orange County, North Carolina

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Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Database lists Civil War soldiers all in one place
Civil War buffs, historians and people adding branches to their family trees can now go to a single source to find service records of 6.3 million Union and Confederate soldiers.
Completion of a database called the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System was announced last week at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by the National Park Service.
Chicago Sun-Times

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Looking for buried treasure
Old, overgrown cemeteries in Camden draw ancestry buffs
The sisters, 83 and 86, trace their ancestors to four kings in England, Scotland and Sweden.
"It's documented by the Daughters of the American Revolution, so we know that it's true," Matthews, who lives in Southampton, Burlington County, said primly of her lineage. She uses a walker, and, as she spoke, she swatted away a swath of brush with one leg of it.
The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Who's your cousin?
Everybody's your cousin, report says
What do Al Sharpton and the Dalai Lama have in common?
In addition to both being men of faith, they may actually be distant cousins.


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States in quandary over wholesale release of birth and death data.
Open-Records Quirks Linked to I.D. Theft - Savvy thieves are using the Internet and finding loopholes in the law to steal identities from the living and the dead, a problem becoming increasingly pervasive in spite of efforts to stop it. LA Times (free subscription required)

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Articles - October 2 & 3
Genealogy in the News is now a web log based feature. Also called a blog, a web log is easier to update than standard web pages for periodic additions. It also has features that allow automatic archiving.

Family marks grave of Revolutionary War hero
Sunday, October 3
Throughout the many cemeteries of Westmoreland County are interred the remains of those who fought bravely against the British during the Revolutionary War.
Their grave markers, carved out of sandstone, have deteriorated. Time and the elements have washed away the names of these soldiers.
The General Arthur St. Clair chapter of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the American Revolution is helping ancestors of Revolutionary War soldiers pay tribute through official dedications of gravesite markers. The ancestors of patriot John Adams Sr. will hold a service at the Poke Run Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Washington Township at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Pittsburg Tribune Review

Hayes Library hosts computer genealogy class in two weeks
Saturday, October 2, 2004
Researching a family history can take years.
However, with the help of computers, much research can be accomplished from the comfort of home.
The Hayes Presidential Center shows novice and veteran genealogists how to make the most of today's computer technology in its Computer Genealogy Class.
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, Ohio
Fremont News-Messenger

Preserve the past for the future
Saturday, October 2, 2004
Students who once saw nothing useful in the study of “dead people” and apparently “meaningless events” of times past suddenly developed a healthy curiosity as to the who, what, where, why and when of history. One curious student discovered she was related to Amelia Earhart, the famous aviatrix who disappeared while flying over the Pacific prior to WWII. Another discovered a relationship to Martin Luther King, and still others found family connections to Presidents and other familiar characters in history.
Sand Mountain Reporter, Albertville, Alabama



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