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Archive for February, 2012
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Happy President’s Day!
We’re marking the occasion with a big
President’s Day sale!
You’ll save
up to 46 percent on selected genealogy books and how-to articles, including:
- Guides to help you research ancestors in Illinois, Virginia and Washington DC
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Our collected State Research Guides book with advice for tracing your ancestry
all across the United States -
Our Military Research Guide CD and other guides to finding records of ancestors in
the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I and World War II, and other American
conflicts - The book Life in Civil War America by Michael O. Varhola
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The book Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites by
Brian Lamb
See
ShopFamilyTree.com for the full list of what’s included in our President’s Day sale.
As always, you get free shipping on orders of $25 or more, and Family
Tree VIPs get an extra 10 percent off.
And if you suspect there’s a US president in your family tree, check
out our presidential genealogy research resources on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
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Two Ancestry.com sites have limited-time free record offers:
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Ancestry.ca is offering free access to its 28 million Canadian birth, marriage and
death records through Feb. 20. Search
the Canadian Vital Records collection here.
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Ancestry.com is offering
free access to two databases now through Feb. 23 to mark the 70th anniversary
of Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese-Americans and residents to internment
camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor:
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Update: I also just received an Ancestry.com newsletter stating that the site’s 1930
US census collection will be free through Feb. 20.
In both cases, you’ll need to set up a free account with the site (or log into your
existing account) to view record matches.
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Family Tree University is holding a Virtual
Conference Sweepstakes! Now through Feb. 23, enter and
you could win a free Virtual Conference registration—that’s a $199 value.
The Virtual Conference, taking place March 9-11, is a weekend of family history learning
and networking through video classes, live chats, a forum, a virtual exhibit hall,
a swag bag and chances to win prizes. No plane tickets, hotel stays or other travel
expenses—just log in and you’re there.
Go to FamilyTreeUniversity.com
by February 23 to enter the Virtual Conference Sweepstakes. Good luck!
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For the “Five Questions” interview of our March/April
2012 Family Tree Magazine (page 12), we asked genealogy
blogger Dick Eastman about his adventures in his new RV.
(March/April subscriber issues are mailing now, and the
digital edition is available at ShopFamilyTree.com. The issue will be on newsstands
starting March 6.)
It was hard to choose just five of Dick’s answers for the magazine, so I’m putting
all of them here. You can read
even more about Dick’s peripatetic life from his RV blog.
Q. How long have you wanted to tour the country in an RV?
A. More or less forever. I don’t remember when the idea first occurred to me,
although I know it was many years ago. I have traveled extensively for business and
for personal vacations most of my life. The “vagabond lifestyle” appeals to me. Now,
for the first time, I am a homeless person and am enjoying it.
Q. Are RVs hard to drive?
A. Not really. Physically, motor homes are very easy to drive. They have automatic
transmissions, power steering, and power brakes. The physical effort involved is about
the same as driving an automobile.
However, the driver does have to remember that the motor home is wider and taller
than an automobile and it doesn’t stop as quickly. In other words, it doesn’t stop
on a dime. Anyone driving a motor home soon learns to leave a lot of space between
the motor home and the vehicle in front of them. You also have to keep an eye open
for low bridges and overpasses.
Q. Where are you most looking forward to visiting in the RV?
A. Anyplace I have never visited before. While I have been fortunate enough
to visit many well-known tourist attractions, I have missed hundreds of smaller “gems”
and I hope to change that. I want to go to the balloon
festival in Albuquerque, the huge airshow
in Oshkosh, Wis., and drive the winding
road in Deals Gap, NC and Tenn., which is supposedly the most winding road in
North America, an attraction for anyone who owns sports cars. It has 318 curves in
11 miles. I hope to drive it in a sports car, not in the motor home. (I tow a car
behind the motor home.)
Q. If 1 is someone who wakes up in the morning and decides on a whim where
he’ll park the RV that night, and 10 is someone who plans out every detail of his
itinerary months in advance, what number are you?
A. Probably a 2 or 3. I deliberately do not plan very much. I prefer to be
surprised. Occasionally, it backfires, but most of the time it works well.
Q. Have you ever gotten lost in the RV? (While driving it, not inside it.)
A. No. Never. Of course, I do carry four GPSs, a road atlas, a thick book of
all campgrounds in the United States, a cell phone, and two two-way radios. It is
difficult to be lost.
Q. What do you consider the most essential item for the RV-ing genealogist
to possess?
A. Patience. The second most important thing is a good toolkit: pliers, screwdrivers,
and things like that. Unlike your home, everything in a motor home shakes when you
are driving down the road. The appliances in a motor home suffer a lot more vibration
than home appliances will ever encounter. Wires under the dash shake loose, pictures
fall off the wall (I had this happen), and other strange things happen. I am almost
always performing some minor repair of an unforeseen problem.
Q. If you had to pick, which one of these bumper stickers would you put
on your RV?: “This is how I roll” or “Genealogy is TREE-rific!”?
A. Genealogy is TREE-rific!
Q. If you could choose anyone from history as your RV copilot, who would it be?
A. OK, I have to give you two answers: Lewis and Clark. Those two adventurers
set off to see things they had never seen before.
I would give honorable mention to several Arctic and Antarctic explorers, except that
they spent much of their time in very cold weather. I have already done that. I was
born in Maine, lived in northern Vermont, lived in northern New HampshIre, and spent
two winters in the Canadian subarctic amongst the Eskimos in in Labrador. I’ve seen
my share of cold weather! Now I am seeking sunshine.
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The photo above shows my great-grandfather and my grandmother in about 1930.
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Effective Wed., Feb. 15, FamilySearch will raise the fee for renting Family History
Library (FHL) microfilm through FamilySearch Centers in the United States and Canada.
The higher fee is “due to the increase in the price of raw microfilm stock and the
decreasing availability of this product on the market.”(The FHL typically reproduces
films for loan to FamilySearch Centers.)
The price for a short-term film loan will be $7.50 per roll (that’s up from $5.50),
with another $7.50 to extend the loan. An extended film loan costs $18.75. A microfiche
loan costs $4.75.
See the full announcement
from FamilySearch here.
FamilySearch is posting millions of digitized records (which
are being indexed by volunteers) on FamilySearch.org;
see if the records you need are there before you pay to rent the film.
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We’ve been to Calvary and taken pics of stones.
I will ad you info to our file and get back to you. Tx.
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http://www.ac-hs.org/calvarymno.htm
MANLEY Anna M. Anna M., 1880-1972
MANLEY Anthony Anthony, Died 1893, Age 87 yrs.
MANLEY Anthony J. Anthony J., 1872-1954
MANLEY Bell H. Bell H., 1888-1972,
MANLEY Bridget Bridget, 1836-1906, Mother, R.I.P.
MANLEY Hugh 8/8/1967
MANLEY Hugh J. Hugh J., 1872-1957,
MANLEY Michael Y *Michael, Q.M. Dept. U.S. Reg., March 21, 1877, March 22, 1917,
MANLEY Patrick Patrick, 1829-1913, Father, R.I.P.,
MANLEY Peter Peter, Dec. 20, 1847, Mar. 10, 1929
MANLEY Sarah Sarah, Wife of A. Manley, Died 1887, Age 83 yrs. Rest in Peace,
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There are several Manleys, including Hugh and Ann, buried at Calvary Cemetery in Anoka. I will look around for names when we are there next.
Here is a link with Hugh and Ann’s children listed: http://records.ancestry.com/Hugh_Manley_records.ashx?pid=121…. Not sure how detailed you want me to get with Hugh/Ann line, I have a document with names, but without birthdates and death dates, that was last updated in 2001.
I will see what I have on Hugh’s siblings. My great Aunt Margaret did a lot of research, but the most thorough work was done on her mother’s side, the Gallaghers.
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Will be in touch when I get to my other computer. Thanks.
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