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Archive for January, 2013
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Harlin is pictured in the 1914 edition of The Mirage, yearbook of Trinity University in Waxahachie, TX, and is a senior. I’m not related but thought this might help someone researching this family.
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was going through old websites and found her obituary her husband gerald was my grandmother brother have been off the computer for a while due to illness my grandparents were mary manley and david morgan crickett
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was going through old websites and found her obituary her husband gerald was my grandmother brother have been off the computer for a while due to illness my grandparents were mary manley and david morgan crickett
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was going through old websites and found her obituary her husband gerald was my grandmother brother have been off the computer for a while due to illness my grandparents were mary manley and david morgan crickett
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The Lincoln inaugural Bible—used by President Barack Obama when he took his first presidential oath of office in 2009—will be used again by the president, along with Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bible, at his second inaugural ceremony Jan. 21. The two Bibles will be stacked one on top of the other, as the president takes the oath of office.
The Lincoln Bible, bound in burgundy velvet with a gold-washed metal rim, will be
on view from Wednesday, Jan. 23 through Monday, Feb. 18, in the exhibition “The
Civil War in America” in the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building, 10
First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. The exhibit is free and open to the public from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
On March 4, 1861, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the oath of office to
Abraham Lincoln using a 1,280-page Bible provided by William Thomas Carroll, clerk
of the Supreme Court, because Lincoln’s family Bible was packed with other belongings
that were still en route to Washington from Springfield, Ill.
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Saving Memories Forever has launched
its new free Android
app designed to make interviewing and preserving stories through audio recordings
even easier. The technology allows users to build story archives they can share and
manage through the company’s website.
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Archives.com has expanded its US Vital Records
Collection to include 58 million records covering birth, death and marriage information
for 21 US states. Click
here for a full list of recently added records.
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FamilySearch has added 7 million new indexed
records and images to its collection. Notable additions include the 1.7 million+ indexed
records and images in the Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books collection from 1592-1910;
1 million+ records added to the United States Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic
and Gulf Ports, from 1820-1874; and the 1.3 million+ records from the United States
General Index to Pension Files collection from 1861-1934.
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The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announces
the creation of a new society to promote the preservation of records in the National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The Society of Preservation Patriots.
This new group recognizes donors who have contributed $250 or more to the Stern-NARA
Gift Fund or the current Preserve the Pensions initiative, a project to digitally
capture the 7.2 million images from the 180,000 pensions of those who served in the
War of 1812.
Donors will receive a society pin and be listed on the FGS website. For
more information, see the Preserve the
Pensions initiative or the Stern-NARA
Gift Fund.
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I’m back here at Family Tree Magazine after
being on maternity leave long enough to forget my computer password and have no idea
which issue I should start working on.
But I didn’t forget all about genealogy. Monday was our practice day at the
sitter with Norah and her big brother, so I used my “me time” to go to the library.
Courtesy of the Kenton
County (Kentucky) Public Library’s Northern
Kentucky Newspaper Index and Northern
Kentucky Genealogy Index (you can search both free online, then email yourself
a list of results), I have a long list of newspaper and record look-ups about my maternal
relatives. It’s been on my to-do list for a shameful length of time.
Since I only had a couple of hours at the library, I prepped by organizing my lookups
according to the newspaper and date (for articles) or the church and volume number
(for church records). That way I’d be able to find all the articles on one roll of
film, then move right on to the next. I also highlighted the most important items
so I’d be sure to get to those if time ran short.
Even though I knew where the library is, I checked out the visitor info onlinee (good
thing— the regular lot was closed due to construction). I couldn’t find the details
about making copies, so I gathered up change and singles just in case. Turns out I
should have brought a flash drive for the microfilm reader that makes digital copies.
Live and learn.
The librarian showed me the newspaper and church record microfilm, gave me a refresher
on the microfilm readers and changed my dollars for dimes (required to make paper
copies). I got all my priority articles and one church record in the two hours. I
wrote the newspaper or record title, date, volume number, etc. on each printout.
As a woman on a mission, I only glanced at the rest of the local history collection.
Oh, the time I could spend there if I had all day.
Now, I’m reading the newspaper articles and trying to sort out who’s who and how (or
whether) they’re all related in this big family full of Josephs, Bernards and Marys.
Every time I read in an obituary that the deceased was survived by “a wife and children”
or see a married woman identified as “Mrs. Joseph so-and-so,” I want to pull my hair
out. Names! I NEED NAMES!
So I’ve still got some work to do. In the mean time, I’m glad to be back with you!
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