Genealogy

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Archives and History Library of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History will continue its series of after-hours workshops from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5 in the library at the Culture Center. The session is title...  

The Lawrence Public Library and the Douglas County Genealogy Society will be offering a workshop on online genealogy searching techniques from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 12 at the library, 707 Vt.  

The Cleveland County Genealogical Society will offer a beginning genealogy workshop Jan. 10, 2010.The workshop, Genealogy 101: Basic Genealogy Skills, will be held in a classroom near the Cleveland County Genealogical Society Library, which is just inside the south entrance of the CSBI Building.  

Why does Jesus have two genealogies listed? How do they fit with prophecies about His birth? Woodrow Kroll tackles those questions today.... Series: Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus' Birth. Ministry: Back to the Bible. Host: Woodrow Kroll and Tami Weissert.  

How 'Pure' was the Average Afrikaner? The ideology of Apartheid was based on segregation of races, yet if you look at the origins or heritage of the Afrikaner people the ideology is rather ironic. Just how 'pure' was the Afrikaner? Not very if you look closely at historical records.Afrikaner Genealogy originally appeared on About.com African History on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 09:05:08.Permalink | Comment | Email this  

From: Family Tree Magazine Newsletter: Genealogy InsiderMonday, December 07, 2009Footnote's WWII Records and Holocaust Records Free Through DecemberBlog post at:http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2009/12/07/FootnotesWWIIRecordsFreeThroughDecember.aspxShortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/ye9h9zuWWII Recordshttp://go.footnote.com/wwii/http://go.footnote.com/results.php?vs=1&category=wwii-hpHolocaust Recordshttp://go.footnote.com/holocaust...  

Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings has posted his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post for us to think of our Genealogy Wish List. This one got my attention because I can think of several databases I wish were online (especially if offered for FREE).  

The following announcement was written by Library and Archives Canada: Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce that the following pages of the Canadian Genealogy Centre web site have been recently updated: Abbreviations used in French records, Bibliography, Canadian Forces after 1918 (including Second World War), Criminal Records, Divorce, Events, First World War, Genealogical Societies, Irish, Jewish, Newspapers, North West Mounted...  

President Obama and billionaire investor Warren Buffett share a family tree. Genealogists from the Web site ancestry.com found that the two men are related through a 17th century Frenchmen named Mareen Duvall. He arrived in America as an indentured servant in 1659 and worked his way up to be a landowner and merchant.  

During a Licking County Genealogical Society board meeting, our Webmaster Bill Johns asked if we had seen President Barack Obama's genealogy line yet. He forwarded it to us, and what fun we had. Obama's father was originally from Kenya. His mother ...  

The dairy farmer from Meggido met the financial director from Paris; the radical feminist from Haifa chatted to the head of a yeshivah; the UK's leading legal pensions expert hung on the words of the retired Ashkelon health inspector, ...  

BigNews.biz (press release)Family Tree and GenealogyBigNews.biz (press release)tribalpages.com is the home for 350000 Family Tree Genealogy sites with over 80 million names and 2 million photographs. The company went online in July ...  

Researching roots of family trees can be 'addictive'Comox Valley RecordPhoto by Erin Haluschak By Mark Allan - Comox Valley Record Barbara Page is hooked, maybe even addicted, to genealogy. The Courtenay woman has up to six ...Elves busy at workshopComox Valley RecordVirtuoso recital comingComox Valley Recordall 3 news articles »  

November 19, 2009 -- 'RootsMagic Essentials' Brings Free Tools for Family History SPRINGVILLE, Utah, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- RootsMagic, Inc. announced the immediate...  

November 12, 2009 -- PROVO (AP) -- Genealogy Web site Ancestry.com is opening up its entire U.S. military collection in honor of Veterans Day. The Provo-based...