Archive for February, 2012

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I am trying to find out what happened to Lavina Manley who was living in Persifer Township in 1900.
She was born March 1833 in Ohio. Her mother was from Mass and her father was from New York.

She is widowed and has her granddaughter Grace Darling Epperson living with her.

Lavina had 4 children….3 survived.
Guy
Jay
May….married an Epperson and had a daughter Grace Darling…they divorced and she remarried a Buffington and died in Pueblo Colorado.
an unknown child.

I would like to know when/where Lavina died, and also what was her husbands name. There are many Manley family members buried in Knox County, although I do not find her.
I would think one of them is Lavina’s husband and the child that had died. (Also, what was her maiden name)

I am really trying to find out what happened to the grand daughter Grace Darling Epperson…she married John Leu and then Willis L. Burris. I can not find anymore info than this.
John Leu and Grace had a daughter that died in 1902 after only 17 days of life. I do not know where this daughter is buried either.

Anyone that has information about Lavina and her family??

Thank you so much,
Anna
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Charles Manley was married to Anna Owen. I am of the Owen Family. Anna was the dau. of Ethan Allen Owen Jr. of Marquette County, Wis. Your are descended from Revolutionary soldiers through Owen and French families.

JC
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From my Twitter account (blaine_5), here are my tweets from the past few weeks (Feb. 4 – Feb. 20th), most of which are about genetic genealogy and personal genomics:

• RT @GeneSherpas: “@GeneticsUpdate: Can You Be Fired for Your Genes? sns.mx/REiMy1” Hopefully our future doesn’t come down to this! Feb 20, 10:44pm via HootSuite 

• RT @openSNPorg: You can now apply for a free genotyping. Find more details and the planned schedule here: opensnp.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/app… Feb 20, 5:45pm via HootSuite 

• RT @Sagebio: RT @gnshealthcare: It’s not the $1,000 genome that’s important, it’s the analysis that’s valuable. onforb.es/xzzht0 Feb 16, 1:06pm via HootSuite

• Wow! MT @genomicslawyer: New GeneWatch entitled “Genetics in 20 years”: bit.ly/zF3kVO Commentaries from Evans, Greely, Church, others  Feb 16, 11:52am via HootSuite

• New at TGG: “@23andMe is Hiring a Marketing Team” – ow.ly/96I1e (via @businessinsider)  Feb 16, 9:00am via HootSuite

• New at TGG: @MyHeritage & Family Tree DNA partner to offer genetic genealogy tests to MyHeritage’s 62 million members – ow.ly/96Flp  Feb 16, 8:23am via HootSuite

• Congratulations @johnhawks! RT @paleoanth: My appointment as HHMI Fellow dlvr.it/1CRWmp #johnhawksweblog  Feb 16, 7:26am via HootSuite

• RT @dgmacarthur: RT @EricTopol Interesting perspective from a Bloomberg journalist who has his genome sequenced bloom.bg/w6QXnW  Feb 15, 10:38am via HootSuite

• An interesting Kickstarter project involving Sitting Bull’s DNA and his great-grandson Ernie LaPointe – ow.ly/94lpA  Feb 14, 2:15pm via HootSuite

• “Genetics and privacy” at john hawks weblog (@johnhawks) – “‘Privacy advocates’ seem like they’re living in the 1980′s”  Feb 14, 12:19pm via HootSuite

• Technically his mom’s bedroom! MT @drbachinsky: “Doing Biotech in My Bedroom” at ow.ly/93TZM (via @techreview) Feb 14, 10:05am via HootSuite

• 2 containing “ancestry” – MT @DNAlawyer: This morning Rothenberg touted NHGRI searchable DB of all ELSI projects: ow.ly/92V4x  Feb 13, 3:41pm via HootSuite

• “Oh, mama…a use for mtDNA” by Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist – ow.ly/926G1  Feb 13, 7:46am via HootSuite

• Interesting SNPedia analysis of the new Denisova genome – ow.ly/926lh (by @CarisO) – straight hair or curly? Feb 13, 7:43am via HootSuite

• MT @genomicslawyer: New study raises concerns about use of familial matching in forensic DNA: bit.ly/xF1MCm  Feb 11, 11:32am via HootSuite

• New post at Higher Education IP Law Report – “Does an Instructor Have Rights in a Student’s Class Notes?” ow.ly/8YgQ9  Feb 09, 10:26am via HootSuite

• Fascinating post about consumer genomics by Madeleine Price Ball at the Personal Genome Project’s new blog – ow.ly/8Ybol  Feb 09, 9:37am via HootSuite

• The hitherto mysterious “The Genealogy Event” (@GenealogyEvent) in NYC in Oct. 2012 is now requesting speakers – ow.ly/8V5hY  Feb 07, 7:49am via HootSuite

• Ancestry.com‘s exciting new autosomal DNA test discussed at #Rootstech keynote today – ow.ly/1Fz9tf  Feb 04, 7:34pm via HootSuite

• I plan to be there!! RT @RootsTechConf Mark your calendars: #RootsTech 2013 is March 21-23, 2013  Feb 04, 7:30pm via HootSuite

• Listening to Kenneth Chahine (Sr. Vice President & General Manager at Ancestry.com) talk about DNA at #Rootstech 2012 Feb 04, 10:53am via TweetDeck

 

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Regardless of ethnicity, when you dabble in family history, you’re likely to hit a wall. And if you’re African American, the “wall” you hit is almost guaranteed to be triggered by slavery. However, on Friday night’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? actor Blair Underwood’s search demonstrates exactly why it’s always worth looking anyway – even when you think you’ll never get past what seems like an impossible research hurdle. Because, as Blair finds out, there are alternative record sources and technologies like DNA testing, that may help connect back to family in all new ways.

Ancestry.com is a sponsor of Who Do You Think You Are? which airs Friday nights, 8/7c, on NBC. And join us following the show at www.ancestry.com/wdytya to discover other sources you can use, too, when you’re facing a brick wall.

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We know that privacy is increasingly important to you – our users. We want you to know that we care about it too. Our newly published Privacy Philosophy lets you know we have a consistent approach to protecting your privacy and that it is at the core of the decisions we make and what we do.

You may have noticed that we now have a link entitled Privacy (rather than just Privacy Statement) at the bottom of our Ancestry.com site. It now includes our new Privacy Philosophy, along with links to our official Privacy Statement (updated) and the comprehensive Privacy Center.

Note: The new Philosophy is not replacing our official Privacy Statement. We wanted to put everything about privacy in one place for you, in what we hope is in a digestible and transparent form.

This isn’t just about updating our privacy language to make it more comprehendible (though we are pretty sure it will help you have a better understanding of Ancestry.com’s approach to privacy). Our purpose in adding our Privacy Philosophy and spending time to develop our Privacy Center, is to help you feel more comfortable with what’s available on the site and be rest assured that your content and information you share about yourself and your family on Ancestry.com is protected.

The Privacy Center has a lot of helpful information around privacy related topics all in one place to make it easy for you to find answers to your questions.

For example, the explanations dive into how you can control what other people see about you. It’s also about continuing to educate you on the privacy options available on the site, so you can decide which levels you feel comfortable with.

If you haven’t had a chance, take some time to visit our updated Privacy Center.

Plus, help us continue to improve the page and how we communicate our privacy by letting us know what you think. Use the “Send us feedback” link on the right side of the Privacy Center to provide us with your thoughts.

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• This week, the free FamilySearch.org added 2.8
  million records for the United States, Canada, England, Hungary, Italy and Russia.
  Of note are the 900,000 records of Hungary Reformed Church Christenings. See
  the list of new records and link to each collection here.

• Actor Blair Underwood—star of this week’s “Who
  Do You Thnk You Are?” episode—will appear today in a commercial promoting Ancestry.com’s
  support of Big Brothers Big Sisters. If you join
  Ancestry.com through the link www.ancestry.com/donate between February 24 and
  29, Ancestry.com will donate 20 percent of proceeds to the Big Brothers Big Sisters
  mentoring program.

• Findmypast.co.uk today announced
  a project to digitize the 3.5 to 4 million historical records from the Hertfordshire
  Archives and Local Studies in England. The records cover parish churches and bishops’
  transcripts, spanning 1538 to 1990 (1910 for baptisms and 1928 for marriages).

Findmypast.co.uk also added
359,000 records of UK merchant seamen records covering the years 1835-1857. Its sister
site findmypast.ie added Petty
Sessions order books—court records from the lowest courts in Ireland—from 1850 through
1910.

• Military-focused historical records subscription site Fold3 has
  published the Index to Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers for four states
  (Ohio, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania), with more to come. This collection
  provides digital images of the cards you’ll find transcribed in the National
  Park Service’s free Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System database.

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Congratulations to Barbara Lemley of St. Joseph, Mo., who won a registration to our Family
Tree University Virtual Conference in this week’s sweepstakes!

Want to join Barbara March 9-11 in a weekend of genealogy classes and networking—without
leaving home? Find
out more about the Virtual Conference on FamilyTreeUniversity.com.

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Heads up! Today’s the last day to enter to win a Family Tree University Virtual Conference
registration in our Virtual
Conference Sweepstakes.

You could win a registration (a
$199 value) to this weekend event full of video classes, live chats with genealogy
experts, message board networking and more. No need to book a hotel room, fuel up
the car or even change out of your pajamas.

The Virtual Conference, sponsored by Flip-Pal (whose Flip-Pal
mobile scanner is at the top of many genealogists’ most-wanted lists), takes place
March 9-11. You can log in anytime over the weekend it’s convenient for you.

Enter your
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11:59 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Feb. 23.

And find out more
about the Virtual Conference at FamilyTreeUniversity.com.

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After last week’s “Who
Do You Think You Are?” hiatus, I’m looking forward to this week’s episode featuring
actor Blair Underwood. I’ve admired him ever since “L.A. Law.” (I don’t have to be
a special fan of the celebrity to enjoy an episode, but it does add that extra element.)

In this preview clip, a genealogist guides Underwood through finding family in the
1860 census on Ancestry.com—and
Underwood realizes his African-American ancestor Delaware Scott was free in 1860,
and owned real estate.

And check out this
article, in which Underwood
talks about filming the show and meeting relatives in Cameroon.

The episode airs at 8 p.m. Eastern/ 7 p.m. Central on NBC.

If you’re researching African-American roots like Underwood, you’ll find expert research
advice in our African-American
Genealogy Value Pack, on
sale in ShopFamilyTree.com during Black History Month.