Saturday, June 16, 2007

British War Memorials

British War Memorial Project - British Commonwealth War Graves: "A Virtual War Memorial to Service Personnel from 1914 to the present day - including those killed in recent conflicts and peacekeeping operations. The grave and memorial photo archive is the largest of its kind in the world, and is continually updated by our global volunteer network."

Searching for a grave: "There are 1,074,000+ records available to search, including over 600,000 commemoration photographs.

The Memorial Archive is updated monthly and was last updated 3rd June 2007."

Friday, June 15, 2007

Famous former-homeowners in UK

Famous former-homeowners may add 10% - aboutproperty.co.uk: "Finding out someone famous used to live in your house can add ten per cent to its selling price, a study out today reveals.

Research by Ancestry.co.uk shows homeowners are increasingly looking to uncover the secrets of their properties, with 21 per cent of Brits researching their home's history.

Ancestry.co.uk points to recent sales where a celebrity resident saw properties getting more buyer interest.

Property specialist Strutt & Parker point to the Old Manor, where the playwright Noel Coward once lived, 'resulting in numerous viewings and a successful sale', and the less well-known former home of Doctor Who scriptwriter Terry Nation, where interest has been 'extremely high'.

'Historical records such as censuses and the British phone books, both of which can now be found online, are a great place to start looking for the famous name you believe might be connected with your home and which may result in a blue plaque, increased value or both,' commented Simon Harper of Ancestry.co.uk."

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Partners with FamilyLink.com: Volunteers from Around the World to Benefit from New Social Networking Site - PR.com: "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Partners with FamilyLink.com: Volunteers from Around the World to Benefit from New Social Networking Site

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) has recently partnered with FamilyLink.com, a new social networking site for genealogists.

Provo, UT, June 14, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK), a global volunteer organization in which volunteers perform various genealogy-related tasks for researchers who live far away, has recently partnered with FamilyLink.com."

FamilyLink.com :: Welcome page

About FamilyLink.com
FamilyLink.com is a social networking site that provides an innovative platform for individuals to connect, research family history, and preserve memories. FamilyLink.com has been created in a response to help genealogists from all over the world gather the information they need in a vibrantly efficient, fun, and easy way. Founded by Paul Allen in 2007, FamilyLink.com is a worldwide effort to help individuals collaborate on a global scale.

Paul Allen: Internet Entrepreneur » FamilyLink.com soft launch: "
Posted by Paul Allen at 7:32 AM April 20 2007

I have been in NY and Chicago this week, and haven’t found the time to blog about this yet, but our wonderful sleepless team at World Vital Records has quietly opened up FamilyLink.com to the public.

We are hoping for a few thousand early users, experienced genealogists primarily, to set up personal profiles, tell us what cities they do research in (and where they live), create some ancestor pages, and most of all, give us lots of feedback about the site features and design."

Patricia Geary

Volunteer Spotlight » Patricia Geary: "Pat Geary has been a valued member of the RootsWeb community since she started using RootsWeb more than eight years ago.

When we started looking for nominations for exemplary volunteers, we heard Pat’s name first and often. She is always going the extra mile when answering questions on the Freepages-Help, Freepages-Advanced, and RootsWeb-Help mailing lists, as well as on the lists she admins.

Pat is an avid genealogist and Web designer, and she also does a bit of cross-stitching on the side. She has been doing genealogy “work” since she got her first computer in 1987, and it was only a few years later that she uploaded her first family website to the Internet."

Pat Geary - Google Search

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Gerdas hjemmeside

Velkommen til Gerdas hjemmeside

I flere år har jeg lagt mine slægtsoplysninger på den Amerikanske slægtsside Rootsweb, som noget nyt oplysninger fra Hvetbo området

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Hansen and Jensen in Minnesota

new on Ancestry.com - Minnesota Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905: "Minnesota inhabitants were first enumerated in the Michigan Territory 1820 census and the 1836 census of the Wisconsin Territory. A census of the Minnesota Territory was ordered in 1849, which included the name of head of household and number of males and females in that household.

The 1849 census includes St. Croix and 1850 includes Benton, Dakota, Itasca, Mankatah, Pembina, Ramsey, Wabashaw, Wahnahta, and Washington."

I often see Minnesota as a destination for scandinavian migrants in ships lists somade a couple of test searches:-

5375 JENSEN- Minnesota Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905

5241 HANSEN - Minnesota Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905

Danish readers have access to ancestry library edition at Frederiksberg Central Library

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

soc_genealogy_britain_moderated | Google Groups

soc_genealogy_britain_moderated | Google Groups

My search concerns Charles William Coates, born 1883 (July-September) in Sunderland, Durham, England.
He is the son of Samuel Marsh Coates and Mary Jane Preece also born in Sunderland.

Charles left home in his mid-teens for South Africa, possibly settled in Cape Town, Petrolia or Johannesburg. He and his wife Annie Jane Lazarus (nee Smart) married February 12, 1927 in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, South Africa. They had three sons: John, Jack and Harry.
If anyone has additional information on this family, please contact Joan.

a vey quiet group started by me

new Windows browser

BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple announces Windows browser: "A test version of Safari 3 for Windows XP, Vista and Apple Macs running OSX, is available for download from the Apple website. Apple is hoping to replicate the success of iTunes, which has proved enormously popular on both Macs and Windows machines."

but has it got the google tool bar?

Monday, June 11, 2007

Denmark / Danmark

Cyndi's List - Denmark / Danmark

genealogy / genealogi

I really ought to tell Cyndi Howells about my own sites which all need updating

Danish Census and Church Books : Welcome http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/index.html
Danish family history with Hugh: "How to find your cousins abroad"
http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/en/hugo.html
Danish Census FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/danish_census_faq.html

[Dannebrog] -forside på dansk
http://www.rootsweb.com/
~dnkcen/da/index.html
Hvordan begynder man på at forske i sin slægt? Slægtshistorie hos HUGO
OSS-1 - slægtsforskning - FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/OSS/OSS-1.html
OSS - FAQ links på dansk http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/OSS/index.html
Helsingør church books and more
http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/amt/frederiksborg/lynge-kronborg/helsingoer/fs/index.html
this page was deleted by TDC so I made a safety copy from Googles cache

Virtual Reference Library

Virtual Reference Library http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/library/index.html
MAPROOM http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/library/maps/index.html
Hübertz listing Aarhus historie http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/hhj/aarhus.html

Vort sogns historie - Indholdsfortegnelse created by Henning H. Jacobsen Risskov, Danmark

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Danish FAQ

Danish Archives FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/index.html
DAISY electronic catalogue FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/daisy.html
Lost census - manglende danske folketællinger
http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/lost-census.html

Danish personal names and naming FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/names.html
dk-de_place_names - some German and Danish forms of names in Slesvig
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/FAQ/dk-de_place_names.html

Kirkebøger FAQ - Danish National Archives Church Books, or parish registers
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/FAQ/kb.html

1000 Danish surnames http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/1000surnames.html
The top one thousand surnames in Denmark on January 1 2004
- with thanks to Dorthe Larsen at Danmarks Statistik http://www.dst.dk/

Dannebrog
FOTW Unionbanner Kalmarunion and other flags
http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/kalmarunion.html

other FAQ

British Archives FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/british-archives.html
Rootsweb FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/rootsweb.html
Help with census of the United Kingdom
http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/uk-census.html


street index / gade register
these are frozen becasue deep linking to the images has been banned

Randers Census Folketælling master index FT-1787
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/randers/ft-1787/index.html
Randers Census Folketælling master index FT-1801
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/randers/ft-1801/index.html
Randers Census Folketælling master index FT-1840
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/randers/ft-1840/index.html
Randers Census Folketælling master index FT-1855 under construction
http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/randers/ft-1855/index.html
Randers Census Folketælling master index FT-1860 and names
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/randers/ft-1860/xx.html
FT 1787, Odense, Bjerge, Kølstrup
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/amt/odense/bjerge/koelstrup/ft-1787/index.html
FT-1840 for Bedsted http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/bedsted/index.html

one place study of Brumleby AKA Københavns Lægeforeningens Boliger
http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/brumleby/index.html

Randers Census Indexing Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/randers/index.html
Lost census - manglende FT - FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/lost-census.html

dnkcen Site Map http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/sitemap.html

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Shropshire Archives

Shropshire Archives | Shropshire County Council: "Summer Walks
We are celebrating the 250th year of the birth of Thomas Telford with a programme of walks across the county with the Friends of Shropshire Archives. Please visit our news and events page for more information.

News and events from Shropshire Archives | Shropshire County Council

Shropshire Archives
Castle Gates
Shrewsbury
SY1 2AQ

Ancestry Library Edition is now available free of charge at Shropshire Archives! This website contains a wealth of genealogical information including the 1841 - 1901 census returns and indexes to birth, marriage and death certificates."

watch this blog

Genea-Musings: "So I asked one of the volunteers what the status was of the access to the 'partner' sites.

He said that the San Diego FHC would be able to access the premium sites. He thought they were a week away from having access to the contents on Footnote, World Vital Records, Godfrey Memorial Library, and Kindred Konnections. He counseled patience!

He also said that when the additional data on FamilySearch Inc. becomes available that it would be offered to only LDS members initially. The stated reason was to assess bandwidth required before non-members can use it. He said that there were many records (the word 'billion' was mentioned) that were in the LDS system but not online yet anywhere. It sounds to me like they will use the LDS members as 'beta-testers' of the new system."

The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army)

The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army):

Recommendations for Honours and Awards 1935 - 1980

You can now search and download recommendations for honours and awards to British army personnel and those of the dominions. This collection also contains details of some awards to members of the Royal Navy (RN), Royal Marines (RM) and Royal Air Force (RAF), and of decorations exchanged between British and allied armies. This is the first part of a joint project by The National Archives and the Ministry of Defence (MOD)

many photographs

SleepingAncestors�

Headstones & Markers from all cemeteries in Lea County, New Mexico and surrounding areas.