tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:33:56 +0000heir researchcourt recordsDave BrubeckPersoffPrussiaReba McEntireSacramento Genealogical SocietyimmigrationMayflowerGeorge WashingtonNPRCSwedishU.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumAbraham Lincolnblack genealogyKobrinspreadsheetsSelf Publishing PressIrish researchAmerican Jewish CommitteeFamily History Daygenetic testingCyrillicSellersVancouverAntiques RoadshowArmstrongMcLaughlinpostcardsSundermeierMecklerCalifornia State Archivesvoter registrationsGesher Galiciaweddingswar brideSteve BuscemiUSCcemeteriesDNAVeterans DayVirginiaChristmasNBCSan Leandro Public Librarymug shotsClara BartonVanessa WilliamsStradlingBritish EmpireSteve LuxenbergChinese JewsGenealogical Society of Santa Cruz Countyarchivesorphan heirloomBraininAncestry DayNorwegianSFGenealogyoral historyMartin SheenSchneidermanSpainslaveryCivil War1000Memories.comSFBAJGSU.S. NavyNowickibloggingJamaicaWelikowskyArmistice DayEnglandStoryCorpscookingpassportRuhlebenNapa ValleyMooreMcKenneyWilkersonFold3.comstate censusesdocumentaryadvertisingmilitaryGauntLoving DayFamily History Centercohabitation registerPurple HeartCalifornia Genealogical SocietyCubanewspaper researchWikipediaEastmanAshley JuddEckmanPeggy BaldwinWorld War IIManhattanWilliam BrewsterSutro LibraryKamyanets PodilskyyYad VashemTriangle FireFInlandCouncil for the Advancement of Forensic GenealogyInternational Jewish Genealogy MonthIndiaLincoln BrigadeInternet ArchiveOwenadoptionpensionsCameroonMargery BellConcord FHCSCCHGSGer Mandolin OrchestraNew York Citywomen's suffrageNARAThe GalitzianerCSGASVCGGLAFDMagnes CollectionFarrierSubmarine ForceJFCSZichronNoteAppletonHistory DetectivesMarisa TomeiJaffeIrelandDutchMother's DaycalendarIIJGWDYTYAconsent to marryphotographsJRI-PolandRosie O'Donnelloral interviewspartisansFrancefellowshipCaldwellKardishGaunttSandhupreservationAustraliaYiddish Book CenterNapoleonLeesongenealogy happy dancegenealogy educationKatzDays of RemembrancefamilyParisHolocaustRestingSpotSan Francisco History ExpoAfricaBene IsraelBlog Action Daysperm donorsHolzmindenMuseum of Jewish HeritageSinghKim Cattrallland recordsDunstanItalyMilesTim McGrawORFHCArmenianSusan SarandonMiamiNew JerseyConcordeJewishobituariesRussiaEasterLoreAngel Islandcity directoriesSaxCraig SiulinskiSmallTownPapers.comAlaskaAAGSNCLovelandLincolnArchivesSteve MorsehaggadahHong Konggenealogisttax listsGordonmemorialprisoners of war1940 Censusyoung genealogistsPerlmanJohn MuirinternshipIAJGSTemple SinaiYelskyFamilySearchmurderGermanblogiversaryCharlestonNewspaperCatGwyneth PaltrowPassoverUniversity of the Pacificlocation-based genealogywomenmah jonggchildrenresearchonline researchBelgiumrecordsCaliforniaGorodetskyJTAFamily History ExpoSan Joaquin Genealogical SocietyWordless Wednesdayfive generationsGreat MigrationJewish Community LibraryGermanygay parentsValentine's DaytranscriptionEisenhowerfoodDanishSan FranciscodateshistoryCHPLionel RichieBlair UnderwoodmapsgatheringsGenealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)Blogger204125AncestralDiscoverieshttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-6063114152681082332Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:29:00 +00002012-03-10T19:29:00.833-08:00World War IIRuhlebenprisoners of warHolzmindenTwo Web sites dedicated to World War I camps are looking for relatives of people who were detained there.  Faces of Holzminden commemorates Holzminden Officers' Camp, which was in Kaserne Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany.  From September 1917 to December 1918, more than 550 Allied military personnel and merchant marines from locations in the British Empire were confied in the camp.   A http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/03/two-world-war-i-sites-looking-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-365658168697491703Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:46:00 +00002012-03-09T17:46:41.628-08:00DanishNorwegianNo, not Danish like a pastry, Danish as in Denmark.  Along the lines of the Great Swedish Adventure, O'Connor Casting of Chicago is now accepting applications for the Great Danish Adventure.  Any "fun, outgoing and adventurous" American 18 years or older with even a smidgen of Danish ancestry is eligible to apply.  Winners will participate in an unscripted television program and will compete for http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/03/are-you-part-danish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-6520227237976916478Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:34:00 +00002012-03-08T18:34:59.801-08:00WDYTYAslaveryReba McEntireEnglandI am obviously way behind on my schedule this week!  Too many things to do prevented me from writing this sooner.  But I did see the episode of Who Do You Think You Are? with Reba McEntire.  I was looking forward to it, as I am a big country music fan and enjoy her songs very much.  But the program was disappointing in several ways. The opening overview described McEntire as the queen of countryhttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/03/who-do-you-think-you-are-reba-mcentire.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-567125565764503837Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:47:00 +00002012-03-07T16:47:00.019-08:00NowickiPerlmanWordless Wednesdayhttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/03/wordless-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-1030604138336924386Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:58:00 +00002012-02-28T23:58:30.214-08:00SinghMilesVancouverChristmasWordless Wednesdayhttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/wordless-wednesday_28.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-8107272000556349657Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:24:00 +00002012-02-29T18:20:42.374-08:00WDYTYAnewspaper researchAfricaVirginiablack genealogyBlair UnderwoodCameroonThe Blair Underwood episode of Who Do You Think You Are? opened with a voice-over about how Underwood has highlighted black issues in his roles and work and has won five NAACP Image Awards.  In Underwood's initial monologue he talked about how family has always been important to him and that he wanted to learn more about where his family came from.  His father was in the U.S. Army for 27 years http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/who-do-you-think-you-are-blair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-5132437462607487911Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:13:00 +00002012-02-25T16:13:02.527-08:00FranceJewishPariscemeteries Old Jewish Graves in Pantin Cemetery The rights for two hundred burial vaults in the Pantin Jewish cemetery may legally be transferred to the Paris cemetery administration, which can have the deceased exhumed, unless descendants of those interred are traced.  The vast majority of these vaults are "tombs bought in perpetuity."  This means that the only cost to descendants would be for http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-for-owners-of-vaults-in-pantin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-5459672884191233653Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:17:00 +00002012-02-22T00:17:50.424-08:00CaldwellSinghMcLaughlinWordless WednesdayMcKenneyhttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/wordless-wednesday_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-1314871652357486764Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:44:00 +00002012-02-20T21:44:53.364-08:00newspaper researchblack genealogyCalifornia Genealogical SocietyThis Saturday, February 25, I will present my new talk on using online historical black newspapers for genealogical research, at the California Genealogical Society.  I've said before that newspapers can provide incredible amounts of information that will help you in your research.  An important aspect of researching black family history is that the major newspapers often did not publish items http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/historical-black-newspapers-talk-at-cgs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-6385678410751113435Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:06:00 +00002012-02-15T00:06:31.743-08:00NowickiKobrinWordless Wednesdayhttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/wordless-wednesday_15.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-7467306047147812736Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:43:00 +00002012-02-14T10:22:10.914-08:00MecklerValentine's DayGordonA few years after my grandfather died, I was talking with my grandmother (Bubbie), and she mentioned how every year on Valentine's Day for the 50 years they were married Zadie (my grandfather) had given her these big beautiful cards.  She sounded wistful as she told me about it.  They loved each other so much.  So the next year I started sending her big, flowery cards, the kind she told me Zadie http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/happy-valentines-day-bubbie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-7650867912800262897Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:55:00 +00002012-02-13T10:40:23.008-08:00WDYTYAItalymurderadvertisingMarisa TomeiNBCcourt recordsThis week's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? focused almost entirely on the question of what actually happened to Marisa Tomei's great-grandfather Francesco Leopoldo Bianchi.  In the opening segment Tomei went to New York to meet with her parents, Gary and Addie, and brother, Adam, and discuss the story that her mother's grandfather had been murdered in 1910.  He supposedly had been shot in ahttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/who-do-you-think-you-are-marisa-tomei.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-7678919060262351554Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +00002012-02-12T08:30:40.818-08:00WDYTYAThe Investor's Business Daily blog has a short article about how Who Do You Think You Are? chooses the celebrities for its episodes.  It mentions how celebrities are coming to them to have the program work on their family histories.  It says the research is done beforehand and that not everyone has a story they deem worth telling, which we have heard about before, but also talks about some of http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-who-do-you-think-you-are-chooses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-8547553004497110427Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:49:00 +00002012-02-12T07:50:12.989-08:001000Memories.comInternet ArchivephotographsOn Saturday the California Genealogical Society hosted two photo scanning sessions with the online photo storage site 1000Memories.com.  I had already heard of the company because last June someone from the company contacted me.  She was interested in talking to me about the service and having me test some of the new features.  She mentioned that the company was backed by the people from http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/putting-photos-online-for-permanent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-3206866591037866340Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:35:00 +00002012-02-11T22:35:45.435-08:00AAGSNCblack genealogyCalifornia Genealogical SocietyORFHCThe African American Genealogical Society of Northern California (AAGSNC) held its third Black Family History Day today at the Oakland Family History Center.  Volunteers were told at the beginning of the event that 125 people had preregistered, and we knew we would have walk-ins.  I have not heard how many people we actually had, but it didn't seem crowded.  The February 2011 event drew between http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/black-family-history-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-3695797402495330765Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:27:00 +00002012-02-08T22:27:56.372-08:00Council for the Advancement of Forensic GenealogyI am proud to announce that based on my past experience with forensic genealogical research I have been accepted as a Junior Member in the new Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG).  The word "forensic" means relating to courts of law, so forensic genealogy is research that has legal implications. A good portion of the genealogy research I do is for heir searches, where therehttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-genealogical-affiliation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-519731821137942855Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:15:00 +00002012-02-08T01:15:39.177-08:00SellersNew JerseyChristmasWordless Wednesdayhttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/wordless-wednesday_08.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-8819796524996729359Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:42:00 +00002012-02-05T21:43:12.845-08:00bloggingGenealogical Society of Santa Cruz CountyCraig SiulinskiCraig Siulinski, the person who taught the class that got me started with my blog, will be making a presentation on the same topic at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, for the Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County.  The talk will be at the Santa Cruz Public Library, 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, California.  Craig explains things clearly and is very supportive of people in his classes, both http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/build-your-own-genealogy-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-2094944336085951146Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:33:00 +00002012-02-12T22:48:40.118-08:00WDYTYAIrelandMartin SheenSpainIrish researchThe new season of Who Do You Think You Are? has arrived.  We started with Martin Sheen, who was born Ramón Antonio Gerard Estévez, the son of a Spanish father and an Irish mother.  Sheen has a long, well known history of political activism which was discussed in the voice-over at the beginning of the episode, cueing us to expect something connected to that in the research.  It's impossible to http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/who-do-you-think-you-are-martin-sheen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-3135745098909359879Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:22:00 +00002012-02-05T08:32:09.204-08:00SFGenealogySFBAJGShistorySan Francisco History ExpoCalifornia Genealogical SocietyLast year I lamented the fact that the inaugural San Francisco History Expo had plenty of history but no family history.  This year they have corrected the error, and both the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society and SFGenealogy will be participants, with members of the California Genealogical Society on hand as well.  Apparently last year's comments were heard. This year's event http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/san-francisco-discovers-family-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-678902963818731750Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:35:00 +00002012-02-01T12:35:15.833-08:00Family History CenterORFHCI don't know about you, but I still use microfilm from the Family History Library on a regular basis.  It will still be several years before everything in the mountain is digitized and available online.  A message went out to Family History Center directors today that prices to rent Family History Library films will increase as of February 15, 2012, due to increases in the prices of microfilm http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/price-increase-for-family-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-6226963829366410930Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:06:00 +00002012-02-01T01:06:24.845-08:00JaffeWordless Wednesdayhttp://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/02/wordless-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-7973092373458739977Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:27:00 +00002012-01-29T23:27:51.392-08:00AAGSNCblack genealogyORFHCThe African American Genealogical Society of Northern California (AAGSNC) and the Oakland Family History Center will host another Black Family History Day in celebration of Black History Month.  The event will take place Saturday, February 11, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. at the Oakland Regional Family History Center, 4766 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602.   It is free and open to the public.  Feel http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/01/black-family-history-day-february-11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-4660548008031130344Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:51:00 +00002012-01-29T11:51:13.636-08:00Submarine ForcememorialWorld War IIDid anyone in your family serve on a submarine in the U.S. Navy?  A Web site called "On Eternal Patrol" has been created to honor men lost while serving in the U.S. Submarine Force.  The site includes listings of men and boats by era and a full name index containing more than 4,100 individuals for whom memorial pages have been posted.  Passengers on submarines that were sunk are included also. http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-site-for-lost-us-submariners.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-550731099562016585Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:43:00 +00002012-01-26T01:43:56.481-08:00newspaper researchLincolnArchivesAbraham LincolnCivil WarI have posted before about the Lincoln Archives Digital Project.  The project is trying to digitize all federal records housed within the National Archives which were created during Abraham Lincoln's administration -- from November 1860, after Lincoln's election, to April 15, 1865, the date of his death.  Additional records to be digitized include those involved with the assassination; the http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2012/01/free-access-to-lincoln-archives-digital.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0