If your ancestor was a teacher

Do read A Short History of Education
by G. Benson Clough
2nd ed., London 1904"

Layoffs at MyFamily.com

Personal Blog of Dennis Partridge Layoffs at MyFamily.com: "It appears that MyFamily.com has made the decision to conduct sweeping layoffs of its employees again today. This is not their first time; they having done so in 2000 and 2004. It remains a tragic loss for the employees and families involved as they find themselves suddenly without income. Those that remain, if 2001 is any indication, will find themselves overwhelmed with work as they try to do 2 jobs at once."

MyFamily.com - Your private family website. It's quick and easy. The leading provider of private websites for families and groups since 1998. www.myfamily.com/

Salt Lake Tribune - Business: "MyFamily reorganization
affects around 10% of jobs

Reorganization and expansion of the MyFamily.com family of genealogy Web sites and services divisions has resulted in a turnover of about 10 percent of the company's 500 jobs.
Spokeswoman Mary Kay Evans said Wednesday that about 50 employees left the Provo company last week, even as about 60 new positions were opened.
Employees have been invited to apply for the new jobs, she said.
The work force shift came as MyFamily.com proceeded with plans to split into five business units - the original MyFamily.com Web site, Family History, Heritage Bankers (a direct sales company acquired last fall), Commerce (online/offline sales) and International.
The International division is growing fast, planning this year to add Italy, France and Germany sites to those already serving Britain and Canada.
- Bob Mims "

Kate Marfell

Welcome to Temple Balsall

my aunty Kitty ended up there about 50 years ago

RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: WATKINS LAPHAM 2005

Kate MARFELL - I2940 - Individual Information - - PhpGedView
Kate MARFELL · Harold William MARFELL · Roland Herbert MARFELL · James Henry MARFELL ... Birth 1878 Father 37 Mother 26 -- Trostrey, Monmouthshire, England

WorldConnect Project

Connecting the World One GEDCOM at Time

I have just made myself upload four updates

data is pouring in so by tomorrow they will behind again

(1)
A one-name study for JONES would be impossibly big, so this is limited to one-place RAGLAN Rhaglan Ragland
this is the first draft and a work in progress not a final authority
please check all data against original sources.

Blanche Eveline Jones b: 5 JUN 1874 in Raglan, Monmouthshire (AHW BB 1874) is my much loved granny

Father: Edward Jones b: BEF JAN 1842 in Raglan, Monmouthshire,Wales Mother: Mary Jones b: 1848 in Llanvair Mon
HER ANCESTORS ARE A MAJOR BRICKWALL

Father: Edward Jones b: BEF JAN 1842 in Raglan, Monmouthshire,Wales
Step Mother: Helen (Hellen or Ellen) Elizabeth Bliss b: ABT 1868 in London or Penrose or ? Gt Tew, Oxford, England

Marriage 1 Alfred Henry Watkins b: 13 AUG 1862 in Llanvair Kilgeddin, Monmouthshire AMW BB

Married: JUN 1901 in Pontypool 11a 279
Children
Hilda Mary Watkins b: 19 MAY 1903 in Pontypool 11a 207
Alfred Henry (David) Watkins b: 17 AUG 1907 in Usk Monmouthshire

(2)
ALL LAPHAM
Entries: 5697 and LAPHAM[2732],

There are bound to be errors - so always check original sources - assumptions and hypotheses exist - this ONE-NAME STUDY is a work in progress not a final authority

Many from Kilmington Somerset and USA
all caps. LAPHAM in the index means born in USA or Canada Lapham is used for the rest

Lapham, Alison Mary my mother is my staring point

Birth: 16 MAY 1908 in Filton, Gloucestershire UK - Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire
Death: 22 DEC 1999 in Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK

Living Watkins is me - her only child

HO 107/374/5 Folio 33 Page 6
St Pauls
Thomas Lapham, 40, Cutler, Not born Gloucestershire
Elizabeth Lapham, 30, N Not born Gloucestershire

Robert Lapham, 13, Lab, N 7 APR 1828 in Bath Somerset
Elizabeth Lapham, 7, Y ABT 1834 in St Pauls Bristol
Sarah Lapham, 5, Y ABT 1836 in St Pauls Bristol
George Lapham, 2, Y ABT MAR 1839 in St Pauls Bristol 11 186

His descendants include most Scottish Lapham too

(3)
Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb screen name Karl Dane
researching this movie star in Copenhagen, Denmark and USA, and Laura Balogh is writing a biography of the Danish actor Karl Dane.

Those with any information about him are requested to contact her at yogalaura@optonline.net

(4)
WATKINS LAPHAM 2005

The most up to date version of my own family history from Monmouthshire and Bristol my archive
NEW PHOTOGRAPH
BAND OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS, ALDERSHOT where I was in 1957

:3011593 is a frozen version from Family Tree WATKINS and LAPHAM --Monmouthshire and Bristol UK exported from Family Tree Maker 2006

Bristol tobacco warehouse

Bristol Information: Bristol Information: W.D. & H.O. Wills Employees - 1920s Index:

the archives of this company are at bro@bristol-city.gov.uk
Fax: 0117-922 4236

Family Tree Beta 2

rzamor1: LDS Family Tree Beta 2 Update:

"Dear Beta Testers, It is time to start preparing for the second beta test of Family Tree, and we need your help. To have a successful beta test, we need to invite members with differing levels of family history experience. In our first beta test, most testers were family history center directors, consultants, and members who have done family history work in the past. The feedback we received from this group was just what we needed, but for beta 2 we need to expand the demographics."

"Family History Department wants to do to help the average member, and others, who do not have much experience with family history generally."(Anonymous)

Obesity blog

TWICE THE MAN an Obese Man Beating Obesity and Becoming Fit

from my email

Hey guys, its been awhile since I last posted here but wanted to give
an update of my weight loss progress using exercise & diet - no surgery
or pills.  In August 2005 I was up to 431 pounds - as of Friday I am
now under 347.  I have been blogging my progress daily at:

Hidden Heritage Genealogy

Hidden Heritage Genealogy: "A Rogues' Gallery contains nearly 800 photographs of some of the prisoners held in Gloucester Gaol during the year 1870 and in the period between 1880 and 1906.

The originals are to be found in three albums held at Gloucestershire Record Office. The initial reason for this project was to preserve the photographs as several had already been torn or cut from the albums"

the web page list surnames of those appearing on the CD, either in photographs, in records or in both.

Google mail

Gmail was too close to G-mail
Will GMail Be Taken to Court?

and GMail officially renamed to Google Mail in Germany
BBC NEWS Business Google drops Gmail address in UK
A dispute over the Gmail trademark makes Google change the name of its free mail service ...
an appeal against a court injunction that stops Google from using the Gmail name

Gmail Becomes Googlemail in the UK
"We are still working with the courts and trademark office to ensure our abilityto use the Gmail name, but this could take years to resolve,"

Well anyway today they are launching:-

Chat - Send instant messages from directly within Google Mail. When you go to your inbox, you'll be online.

Status - See when others are online and let them know when you're online, away, busy, tired, whatever.

History - Chats can be just like emails. Save them, search for them--never lose important chats again.You can get started with this feature right now (it's always changeable in 'Settings'):
Save chat history in my Google Mail account - your chats will be saved under 'Chats' in your Google Mail account.

OR
Don't save chat history in my Google Mail account - your chats will not be saved or searchable in your Google Mail account. is still in beta

NB see RULES INCLUDING

Account Inactivity

Google will terminate your account in accordance with Section 9 of the Terms of Use if you fail to login to your account for a period of nine months.

which is a problem for the archivist

transported for life 31 Oct 1827 Botany Bay

William Smith

Prior to his transportation, William worked as a shepherd looking after 800 sheep for Mr Hugh S? in Godmanstone which is 4km south of Sydling.
He states he had been a sheppard for 13 years. William had a previous conviction of six weeks gaol in Dorset for running away from his master, Mr [James] Devenish, a farmer.

In 1827 William was found guilty of stealing a sheep. The following isreported to be a transcript of William's trial at the Dorchester Assizes in the County of Dorset.
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