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Archive for January, 2013
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I am trying to find more information on Melissa Manley Vaughan. I am the daughter of Bettie Ann Vaughan Fuller, grand daughter of Marshal (Euclid or Euclet) Vaughan, great grand daughter of Melissa Manley Vaughan. I would live to know more. My mother told me you would be a good person to contact.
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Elizabeth Jane Manley, age 96, died on December 29, 2012 in the Homewood at Crumland Farms retirement home in Frederick, Maryland.
She was born on October 12, 1916, in Portsmouth, Ohio, (Scioto County) daughter of Emery and Annette Miller.
She was educated in the Portsmouth, Ohio schools and was married to William Manley, also of Portsmouth.
After leaving Portsmouth in the 1960s, they lived in Wlimington, Ohio, and later in Belleair Beach, Florida.
She moved to Frederick after her husband died in 1999.
She enjoyed painting, sewing and cooking.
Survivors include her sister Ruth Vaughters of Winter Haven, Florida, her brother Robert Miller of Portsmouth and Haines City, Florida, her sons Jeffrey of Bethesda, Maryland and Stephen of Menifee, California, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on January 23, 2013 at 10:30 AM, in the chapel of Homewood at Crumland Farms in Frederick.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Homewood Foundation, Box 250, Williamsport, Maryland 21795. Arrangements conducted by the Keeney & Basford Funeral Home, Frederick.
Please view and sign the family guest book by going to www.keeneybasford.com.
Read more: Portsmouth Daily Times – Elizabeth Manley 96
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Gerald “Jerry” Manley, here. Irene was my grandmother; married to Gerald Manley, of Scranton. They had three boys, Thomas (my father), Jerry “Bud”, and Leo. We spent a lot of time at my grandfather’s sisters’ homes, Katie and Annie (Ann Manley Kimble), on Far Street in Scranton, when we were younger. Cousins from Bud and Leo are still alive and well, as are three of my four siblings. I, too, have been off the ancestry network for a good while and would like to get back into it. I do remember exchanging emails with a few of you some years back. What information is being saught?
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thank you for the infomation years later hadnt been on computer for a while any information you have would be helpful i am the daughterof ed morgan which is david and mary manley morgan of scranto pa son my grandfather died in 1968 and grandmothe passed away in 78 or 79 my fathe ed pased away in 1974 but it seem like secrets keep popping up from the grave ad know where to turn thank you crickett
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Since the very first morning after leaving home until just yesterday, we have met so many people who have gone out of their way to come meet us and tell us their story. We somewhat expected this to happen since we are driving an enormous bright green motorhome with pictures of our ancestors covering the sides, but what we didn’t expect was the variety and range of people who would be so excited to share their story with us.
Since that first day, we have met hundreds of people and the best part about it is that they are of all ages, races, genders and backgrounds. They have all had a unique story to tell and it is one of the highlights of our day when someone walks up to us with a curious look on their face and starts asking questions. It has happened so many times by now that we can almost see the story coming from the look in their eyes. It gets even better when our kids get to hear their story because inevitably their curiosity will get the better of them and they will start asking questions, even hours or days later. Sometimes we will have something in common with our new friends, but more often than not, we learn about people, places and times that we previously knew very little about. We have heard stories about ancestors who were on the Titanic, others who were horse thieves, others who were Vikings with very unusual names, and others who started businesses or were involved in the arts and whose contribution to society have left a lasting legacy. Family history stories are inspiring, always interesting, and sometimes quite hilarious, but regardless of whether they make us laugh or cry, we love to hear your stories and we look forward to meeting you at our next stop.
Follow the Brown family @ http://www.ancestry.com/adventure
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Last year, we launched the Interactive Image Viewer as an interactive tool to help you view and interpret information from many of the Census records available online. We’re excited to announce that the Interactive Image Viewer will now be available for several more collections in the coming weeks. Finding and understanding historical records is one of the most exciting and important parts of family history, so we’ve been working hard to make an intuitive and enjoyable experience that will work for different Web browsers and devices. Although we still have work to do, here are a few changes you’ll find:
A more consistent viewing experience
Over the years, the website has had several different ways to view images. Now we’d like to make your experience as consistent as possible. For example, our current image viewer requires Flash. Unfortunately, some members use devices that can’t use Flash so we’ve made the new Interactive Image Viewer so it works without Flash.
Faster image viewing
We want to make sure that images you’re interested in appear as quickly as possible so you can spend more time exploring them and less time waiting them to load. The new Interactive Image Viewer is more than twice as fast as our current Flash-powered viewer.
More viewing space and easy access to tools
The Interactive Image Viewer has been designed to give you the best view of the content while providing easy access to image tools and features. Want to see a transcription of the record? Simply click on the Index tab at the bottom of the page. (You can make the index bigger or smaller by clicking and dragging the tab)
Help finding your family
If you’ve used the Interactive Image Viewer with the 1930 or 1940 U.S. censuses or the 1911 UK Census, you’ll recognize the highlights, which identify the person and family you’re looking for. We’ll be adding highlights to more censuses and additional collections as soon as they’re available.
More understanding of what you’re seeing
Have you been trying to memorize what each field on all 16 censuses means to avoid looking back and forth between the information and the column headings? With the Interactive Image Viewer, you don’t have to! Labels will display on the top and left side of the viewer so you’ll know exactly what information you’re looking at—no matter which part of the record you’re viewing. And to see what a field says, just hover your mouse over it.
Tips and Tricks
Keyboard controls: Use the arrow keys to pan and + and – to zoom. Press the Home or End keys to move to the far left or right of the image, and Page Up and Page Down keys to move to the top and bottom.
Do you like printing the transcription of a record? The new viewer allows you to easily print all or part of an image along with the index and source information. If you’d like to print the whole index for an image, you can now select and copy the text right out of the index panel.
Interested? Check out the new Interactive Image Viewer anytime. We really appreciate the feedback we’re received (more than 20,000 of you have responded to date!) so please keep sending us your thoughts.
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Just a reminder: You have until Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET to register for our Family
Tree Magazine VIP giveaway! Some lucky person will win a free one-year VIP subscription,
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The Minnesota Department of Human Services is gathering bids for a project to digitize
5 million pages of old adoption records dating as far back as the late 19th century.
The records are now on about 2,000 rolls of microfilm and likely include thousands
of adoptions (the exact number isn’t known because files vary in length). Adoption
records in Minnesota become public after 100 years, according
to TwinCities.com, and 2017 is the 100-year anniversary of the law mandating adoption
recording.
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The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) has started
a new society to promote the preservation of records in the National Archives and
Records Administration. The Society
of Preservation Patriots will recognize those who’ve contributed $250 or more
to FGS’s Stern-NARA Gift Fund or to its Preserve
the Pensions initiative (which supports the digitization of War of 1812 pensions). Learn
more about the society and how to become a member on the FGS Voice blog.
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The official bloggers for the RootsTech
2013 conference, taking place March 21-23 in Salt Lake City, are holding giveaways
for RootsTech registrations. Bloggers set their own means of entry; visit each blog
(find a list here) to learn how to
enter that blog’s giveaway.
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You might’ve heard about HBO’s upcoming fictional genealogy series, “Family Tree.”
It stars Chris O’Dowd as a Brit who occupies himself by investigating his family history
after he loses his job and his relationship. Thanks to contributing editor Rick Crume
for sending me a link
to an Entertainment Weekly article about the show. Do you plan to watch?
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Hi, all! Just wanted to let you know that our $50 off your Virtual Genealogy Conference registration promotion ends Friday night, Jan. 25! To take advantage, click
here and enter the code WINTERVCEARLY at checkout.
Family Tree University’s Winter 2013 Virtual Genealogy Conference takes place
Feb. 22-24.You get an all-access weekend pass 15 half-hour video classes, live chats
with genealogy experts, an attendees-only message board and more. It’s a great option
for people who want to get better at doing genealogy without having to take time off
work or pay the travel expenses.
Click
here to see the Virtual Genealogy Conference video class topics and chat schedule.
Click here to register
for the Virtual Genealogy Conference.
Remember, you have until tomorrow, Jan. 25, at 11:59 p.m. ET to save
$50 with promo code WINTERVCEARLY.
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Researching ancestors in Ireland? Flex those typing muscles: Tomorrow, Jan. 24, Irish genealogy website findmypast.ie will
let you access 21 million Irish vital records free in honor of its first Irish
Family History Day.
This according to the Irish news websites IrishCentral and siliconrepublic.
The vital records,
new on the site, range from the 1800s to 1958. Read
more about them here.
Findmypast.ie is a website from brightsolid publishing, which also operates findmypast.com (US), findmypast.com.au (Australia
and New Zealand) and findmypast.co.uk (England,
Wales and Scotland), among other genealogy websites. When you visit from the United
States, you may get a pop-up suggesting you use the American site, but you can just
close it and carry on.
Also, if you’re in the United States, be mindful of time zone differences when you
plan your search session(s). Findmypast.ie is based in Dublin, which is five hours
ahead of the US East Coast.
Update: Now that Irish Family History Day is upon us, I found more information
about this offer. Visit
findmypast.ie’s Irish Family History Day page for a promo code that gets you 50
free credits to use the site’s pay-as-you-go records. The code is valid through Jan.
31.
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