Tour offers look at lives of Civil War soldiers
TARPON SPRINGS - Nestled among the 8,000 graves in Cycadia and Rose cemeteries are the headstones of the Confederate private who made a pact with God to survive a battle, the Union captain who opened Tarpon Springs' first drugstore and the slave who fought for the Confederacy before going on to run his own horse and carriage service.
St. Petersburg Times
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/22/2004 06:52:00 AM 0 comments

 
October is a fine time to begin doing genealogy
October is Family History Month, when we celebrate our families and our search for information about them. It is a fine time to begin doing genealogy.
The Columbian, Clark County, Washington
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Local Saltsville has unique history
Jim Glanville captured in a picture what he said could be possible “only in America;” the great-great-grandson of a Confederate soldier, Jim Bordwine, and the great-great-grandson of a black Union soldier, David Brown, shaking hands. Earlier that day both men had participated in the rededication of the town’s black cemetery that had fallen into disrepair.
Collegiate Times
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New bid to attract Americans to Scotland

Scottish tourism bosses have been in New York publicising a special new website in a bid to get more Americans to visit our shores. The site encourages people to come here to trace their ancestors. It is estimated that as many as 11 million US citizens have Scottish roots.
Like most of the USA New York is a cultural melting pot but just about everyone is keen to tell you about their ancestry and to find out more about their roots.
To capitalise on this growing desire that holidaymakers have to explore their roots our national tourism agency has launched its special genealogy website in the states.
Scotland Today

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Sligo attracts big names in genealogy
Sligo became the first county outside Dublin to host the International Genealogy Festival which brought the biggest names in the field to the town.
The International Genealogy Festival was held from Thursday September 30 to Sunday October 3 and attracted both local people and those who travelled from the USA, to find out more about their Irish roots.
Sligo Weekender

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Taipei councilor slams age limit on civic groups

A Taipei City councilor yesterday urged the Ministry of the Interior to remove its restriction on senior-citizen participation in civic groups. The Civic Group Personnel Management Regulation stipulates that people older than 65 are not allowed to join civic groups.

"The number of genealogy groups makes up over 10 percent of the civic groups registered in Taipei. Furthermore, according to a survey conducted by the Bureau of Social Affairs, out of 172 groups questioned, the leaders of 112 of them are over the age of 65. Sixty-five percent of these people do not meet the regulation," Li Keng said.
The Taipei Times

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Spy Technology Helps Leicester University Put History Online

Using technology developed for intelligence agencies, the new Historical Directories website offers access to over 500,000 records. Courtesy Historical Directories.
"The historical directories website is one of the most significant genealogy tools that has ever been launched in the UK," said Ian Clark, senior technologist at Archive Quest, who created the project in partnership with the University of Leicester and software company, ZyLAB.
24 Hour Museum

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DNA Testing - Those Difficult Female Lines
Mitochondrial DNA -- it sounds scary. But it is really just a DNA sequence which can be used to trace the female lines in your family tree - your mother, her mother, your mother's mother, and so on. Mitochondria DNA, mtDNA for short, is found in both males and females, andis inherited from your mother. Only females pass on mtDNA to their children, but males do inherit it from their mother, even if they can't pass it on.
About.com, Genealogy Blog
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/18/2004 09:26:00 PM 0 comments

 
Civil War vet gets gift from great grandson
James Henry Grayham's tombstone is much easier to read than those of his buddies from the Civil War.
Thanks to his great grandson, the Union solider now has a new, 3-foot-tall, granite marker. The Department of Veterans Affairs provides them free to soldiers.
Grimes learned about the monuments after attending a genealogy seminar. He is a Civil War buff and interested in family history, which he researches with the help of his cousins.
The News Enterprise, Hardin County, Kentucky
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Woman takes on feat of tracing history of black families
Tracing ancestry complicated because of slavery
However, King recently made a discovery that could help in her search. "In a little article, I found out who owned my grandfather," she said. She also has a tattered piece of newspaper from Buckingham County from the late 1920s with an obituary of her grandfather's brother, the slave of a doctor in the community. King said her next step is to research him. She also looks to white families for pieces of information about hers.
News Leader, Central Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
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Genealogy is the New National Craze
A recent survey by Genes Reunited, the UK’s largest online genealogy and ancestry website, has revealed that tracing the family tree is turning into a national craze that spans generations. The site has become so popular that two million names are being added every month, with families being connected every 52 seconds.
OnlyPunjab.com, India

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Finding ties that bind
Bob and Phyllis Duncan's relatives left their family reunion with a memorable gift.
In September, they presented their loved ones with 24 years of genealogical research into the Duncan family tree. The couple created three bound editions, complete with biographies, photos and newspaper articles about family.
The Wildomar couple spent the past two decades researching the Duncan, Stark and Park families, all related to Bob.
The Press, Enterprise, Riverside County, California


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