Little Elm Cemeteries: A link to one's roots
With Halloween lurking, some might consider cemeteries to be a nothing more than a reminder of the annual holiday's ghoulish reputation.
But locally both Little Elm Cemetery and Zion Cemetery are considered historic treasures. Not only because within their grounds lay some of the area's ancestors, but also because they hold a link to one's past.
The Little Elm Journal, Texas

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/16/2004 07:35:00 AM 0 comments

 
It's All Relative: The time is now
Come join a Jewish genealogy society
A friend has been raving about her new-found passion - her pursuit of family history - and the group she has joined. To you, these people sound rather strange. They seem, says your enthusiastic friend, to spend holidays in cemeteries, sit for hours researching internet databases and take field trips to archives.
They dance wildly in institute aisles when they locate elusive evidence. Their summer social schedule is organized according to which city hosts the annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, a week of intensive family history workshops, lectures and seminars.
The Jerusalem Post

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/14/2004 11:57:00 PM 0 comments

 
Know yourself better by tracing genetic history
Tracing your genetic heritage is a type of research that many genealogists try.
I was feeling cranky, so I yelled at him to come out and finish his cleaning. He opened the door, and with a smile, offered the perfect squelch: "Grandma, now I know where I inherited my impatience."
One of the side benefits of doing genealogy is that we learn about the ancestors from whom we inherited our traits. We can also see some of those traits in ourselves.
The Columbian, Clark County, Washington

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/14/2004 11:47:00 PM 0 comments

 
Printing Company Delivers Holiday Cheer To Genealogy Buffs With Large Family Trees

Ancestry Graphics & Printing provides specialized solutions to genealogy buffs who will need to solve the problem of getting their family tree data onto a large printed family tree chart this holiday season.
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas are the traditional times of family get-togethers when many people will be showing off their family trees in printed form. In many families, a printed genealogy chart will also be a popular gift to parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. The problem many genealogists will face again this year will be getting their family tree data out of their software and onto a large family tree chart. Ancestry Graphics & Printing says their service will bring cheer to genealogy buffs in search of a solution to this growing problem.

eMediaWire

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/13/2004 11:42:00 PM 0 comments

 
Past masterclass
The huge success of the BBC's celebrity-led genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? prompts George Wright to round up the best ways of tracing your roots
More than 5 million people - twice the average BBC2 audience at least - tuned in to the programme last night, suggesting the internet-fuelled boom in family history is far from over.
The Guardian, UK
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/13/2004 11:38:00 PM 0 comments

 
Calling all Cunicos
He's trying to get into contact with his roots
"After spending a year in Italy on a work assignment, I became very interested in my family lineage. My great-grandparents and grandfather actually lived in the Western Upper Peninsula in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Likewise, another Cunico family from Lockport, Ill., had roots in the same area. "
Ironewood, MI, Daily Globe

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/12/2004 05:08:00 PM 0 comments

 
WALES is a nation obsessed with discovering its roots
Back to their roots
More than 70% of Welsh people know about their family history extending further back than their grandparents, says a study by the National Trust.
North Wales, Daily Post
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/12/2004 05:05:00 PM 0 comments

 
Ancestry research proves popular
Tracing the branches of a family tree has become a popular pastime for many Britons, the National Trust says.
Of 2,000 Britons surveyed by the trust, 56% knew about their family history beyond their grandparents.
Women were more likely to know about their ancestors, while people aged between 35 and 44 showed the most interest in genealogy.
BBC
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/12/2004 05:02:00 PM 0 comments

 
No stone left unturned
Quest to compile a database of local soldiers and their lives
Armed with a list of 1,110 names, the retired Grumman Aerospace Corp. executive walks between countless tombstones as part of his crusade to unearth Civil War history, one soldier at a time.
Long Island, Newsday.com


- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/11/2004 04:54:00 PM 0 comments

 
Historical Society gets help with genealogy project

The Bonne Terre Historical Society has found just the help it needed.

Janet Barton said the newly-reformed society was struggling for weeks to find a direction. Then Mary MacKenzie and Kathy Bachista stepped in and gave them a hand.

The two women, who are cousins with local ties, have offered to help the society with genealogy.

Daily Journal, Park Hills, Missouri

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/10/2004 11:35:00 PM 0 comments

 
Black history experts offer help
Archivists in Oxfordshire are offering their help to black people who want to delve into their family's past to learn more about their ancestors.
BBC
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/10/2004 08:11:00 AM 0 comments

 
In general, a bad re-enactor?
Man who played role of a Pickett descendant troubles Richmond kin
In a turn of events that speaks to the age-old, sometimes sticky pursuit of one's Virginia ancestry, descendants of famous Confederate Civil War general and Richmond native George E. Pickett are quietly turning their backs on one of their own.
Or at least on someone they thought was one of their own.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/10/2004 08:00:00 AM 0 comments

 
Family's mistake leads to tasty good fortune
Shawnee's Hamburger King
Great-uncle George, the first hamburger king, started in the 1920s in Bristow. His restaurant was a long building at the "crazy curve" -- where Route 66 makes that sharp northeast turn. Right on that corner -- that's where it started.
News-Star, Shawnee, Oklahoma

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/10/2004 07:54:00 AM 0 comments