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Jul. 12th, 2009
07:27 pm - Hello
I am searching for a person in my family and am not sure where to turn too. I am sort of new at this and all I have is my mothers records she got from a cousin of hers.
I am looking for information on John AUER. According to what information my mother & I have he was born in Bisofgrven Bavaria. His daughter was born in 1826, I don't have a date on him. When doing a search at ancestry.com and familysearch.org it comes up with the information my mom has entered at those sites **rolls eyes**.
I thought I'd try to find the city, or information on that general area and wouldn't you know it, it isn't listed. I looked at this site which lists off cities in Germany.
his daughter was Rosina AUER who married a Henry Louis Mendell I haven't tried finding more information on them, I do know their children were born in New Jersey.
Anyone know how to go about researching cities that may no longer be there?
Thanks.
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curiousJul. 10th, 2009
09:11 pm - Surname Adams (Jacksonville, FL) 1943
To make a long story short my mother is secretive about life. Her maiden name is Adams and she was born in April, 1943. She's never even given me the definitive date, but it's between the 6th and 9th. She grew up in Jacksonville, FL and graduated from high school in 1961. Her mother was an English teacher from what I remember in some of our talks. Her mother was remarried to a fellow by the last name of Gaskins after she was widowed. She had 7 brothers. I believe some of them were half-brothers from the second marriage. One brother was killed in Vietnam. I am hoping to make contact with some of my cousins from that side of the family.
Thank you,
Melanie
May. 3rd, 2009
03:28 pm
I'm looking for people with the last name SONIN. I'm trying to find out about my great grandfather, whom my grandfather never mentioned. No one in my immediate family even knows his name. HELP!
Mar. 16th, 2009
11:27 am - Quebec Genealogy
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ms_geekette for all the help and resources that she was able provided me.
*Drum roll*.... And now to my question.
I was wondering who else is researching their family in Quebec? With the help of ancestry.ca and familysearch.org, I was able to trace my roots pretty far back. As a newbie to this, I have no clue where to search for "cause of death" "land deeds", etc. The only thing I do know how to search for is the Drouin marriage, birth and death records as well as the censuses. Anything beyond that is beyond my knowledge.
If anyone could provide me some tips it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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busyFeb. 24th, 2009
03:34 am - RANT!!!
Damned Ancestry.com is buying up all the free Genealogy sites (it seems)so they can start charging people for it.. Ive lost my best free census site. Damn you, you extortionist money grubbing buttheads!!
Nov. 17th, 2008
09:23 am - My ancestor dilemma
I've been researching my family history for about three years now.
You know how frustrating it is to get stuck on one person. . . That's happened to me a few times, but this one is a real dilemma.
( I'm going to outline what I have so far, and would appreciate suggestions. . . )
curiousOct. 12th, 2008
05:32 pm - Hello!
I'm an amateur geneaologist, but the third in my family who has pursued the history (at least, out of the ones that I know :P). If anyone has any information about the Swettenham family from Somorford Booths OR Swettenham, England, I would be interested in swapping information/stories. In addition to my research, my brother's, and our great-uncle's, I also have a long document about family legend and Swetnams across America that was created by a distant relative but which, unfortunately, does not cite sources.
At the moment I'm trying to find any information related to Alexander Swetnam and his wife Ann Roane; the only thing I know is that Alexander died in 1789 and they lived in Stafford County, VA. They had possibly two sons - John Swetnam, born 1747, and married to Sarah (Fickland) Ficklin (born before 1751), and Thomas Swetnam, who married Frances (Fanny) Call in 1765 in Hanover, VA. Any information about Alexander or his wife Ann would be greatly appreciated!
Aug. 31st, 2008
06:44 pm - RAGAGELES
Hi!, If you are looking for the name Ragageles, you have just found one XD I'm looking for others with the same name and I'm doing the family tree, you can find information on my BLOG, there is a portuguese version too.
Every thing I found I post there, sone I will post the names I have there.
May. 20th, 2008
03:56 pm - new around the family trre
hi! my name is Liliana, and I'm from Portugal, I'm looking for other people with the weird name Ragageles : D or any information about it! thanks!
May. 13th, 2008
10:14 pm - Civil War / Transcription
The following transcription is on my great great grandfather's headstone and I was wondering if someone could help me decipher it as I cannot find any record besides his obit that he was even in the war...
Michael Weyer
O.F. 3 REG F.A. N.Y. V.
May. 4th, 2008
01:17 am - Ancestry.com free trials warning
Please remember to keep track of when your free trial runs out.. Ancestry WILL bill your bank account without warning. They did this to me Friday night and over drew my account. I had no warning that my free trial was up and that a bill was coming, just the aftermath of 155.40 vanishing from my bank account and not knowing where it went until driving the 45 mins to my bank to speak with a live person. I had not accessed the free trial in 6-8 months(it was a year trial that came with the family tree maker program.
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annoyedApr. 15th, 2008
11:46 pm - Lost bird
I'm not really involved with genealogy for its own sake, but I have been trying to track down my grandmother, Shirley Mae Barnes (or that was her name when she had my father). I did not know who my father was until I was 14, and having heard the bad things that happened to her before she ran away from my grandfather, I haven't had the nerve to try and find her until now. She was ndn, born May 5,1926, adopted into a white family (Prince) in Milwaukee, and I have no idea how to go about finding out more about her or her family. Any suggestions or even just encouragement would be helpful....
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confusedApr. 8th, 2008
06:49 pm
I love genealogy! It is one of the Coolest things ever... I am a Fourth Generation Genealogist. My mother, her mother and her mother (my Great Grandmother) were/are all genealogists. But I must say I have made the most progress thanks to the internet. I have found through the17th Century on a couple branches.
What I wanted to post about is, I am a member of a site called Photomax. And what this site does is scan and archives your photos. I went though my photos and found pictures I had of my Grandmother and Grandfather. As far as I know I am the only one with a copy. I was always afraid that I might lose them, or my house might burn, or more likely where I live a flood (I'm from Oregon where is rains a lot ;) So what i did when I found this site was send them my photos and they scanned them and archived them. I then payed a little more and the made a Movie out of them... Where my family photos fly around and it played great music...
Anyways I thought that I should pass this on to the people that would love it most, fellow Geneologists.
The site is www.photomax.com. If you sign up you get 20 free photo prints. Its a members tells members only site, so you have to have a referral... So you have to put my Email address... which is jamesleekelley@yahoo.com and then the rest of the info is yours... I hope some of your find this fun! I would love to post a copy of my DVD but I haven;t figured out how yet lol... but I will once I figure it out.
James Lee kelley
Family Names ~ Kelley, Belletto, Jacobson/sen, Goss, Peterson, Struthers, Baird, Hoover
Mar. 27th, 2008
03:17 pm - So I need help
I've been looking all over the net for this. Hopefully someone here can help me somewhat.
I have problems with finding my German ancestors.
The first one: Alfred Orthmann, Born 1913, Dead (or MIA): 1944. He was a flight engineer for Germany during the World War 2.
Second one: His wife (I think), Erika Neuman, Born 1913, Dead sometime in the 80's I think. They lived in Hamburg during 30-40's. She was born in Danzig (or Gdansk as it is called now). Also Alfred's mother was Alma Orthmann - Giese.
Any help? :)
Mar. 5th, 2008
04:17 am - Adoption ...
Hello.
My name is Kristina Hall and I am adopted. I am trying to make a basic family tree for my doctor and to track medical issues throughout the family and because I am curious.
My birth mothers name is Patricia Nixon, born 01/01/62 and my birth fathers first name was some variation of Steven and last name was a variation of Combs or Coombs.
They were not married, or anything like that. I can get and very information for the Nixon side of the family but cannot for the other side since I don't have any such information.
Is there a way to build a tress with this information? How would I go about doing it for free?
Feb. 22nd, 2008
01:05 pm - 1940 United States Census Records
The United States census records are slated to be released in 2012, which is only four years away. I'm really excited about that as it holds the potential of helping me with a couple of my brick walls.
Does anyone know if this happens in January of that year? Or does anyone happen to be able to shed any details of how this release of these documents happens?
Dec. 10th, 2007
08:30 pm - Social Security death index (I think)
Aboyut a year ago, I found this website where I entered in someone's name and information came up about the person's relatives, like their parents, spouse and children.
I was wondering if anyone knows about a site like that? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
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contemplativeDec. 3rd, 2007
10:27 pm - incredibly nice people on Ancestry.com!!
A great story..
So yesterday, I got an email from someone on Ancestry.com who pointed me in the direction of a Civil War Solidier's bible that was written in by my great-great grandfather and carried throughout the war by him. I guess she found him listed on my family tree.
She's not selling the item, nor does she know who is... she just thought things like that should stay in the family. As they should!
After researching it, I found out the bible went to my great-grandfather's brother and his branch has apparently died out/lost the bible along the way.
if your curious, they were Union soliders :)
fingers crossed, nails biting, I need to get this for my father as an Xmas gift!
Oct. 9th, 2007
01:03 pm - Ancestry
What sites do you use?
Do you use your family for information?
How do you get new information.
I have a tree on ancestry that is growing, but I would like it to keep growing and seeing who else I am related to.
Thanks for your help
curiousSep. 8th, 2007
11:29 am - Any Suggestions?
Does any one have any suggestions on how to search people who weren't really married. Is the best way just to go back to the person's maiden name and try and work forward that way? I only ask as my grandparents were never married but had children.
Saying that I can't find my grandfather either, he seems to be somewhat of a mystery.....
Bit of a long shot but I don't suppose there's anyone on here that knew Mary Jane Freer or possibly Frere from Yorkshire England or George Elliott who apparently came from Guildford England?
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