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In Memoriam: Stanley Hines Robinson

Today, July 28, 2010, my mother’s eldest brother, Stanley Hines Robinson passed away.   Hospitalized just 9 days ago, this has come about rather suddenly for our family and we will miss him so.  Stanley had many adventures in life, liked to travel, and was an independent & free spirit. We love you and will […]

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Tombstone Tuedsay: Dred & Ellen Wimberly

Back in June, through the kind assistance of a researcher in North Carolina, I was sent photos of the headstones and home of the brother of one of my 3rd great-grandmothers.  This is Dred Wimberly and his wife Ellen Bertha (Jenkins) Wimberly. They are buried in Unity Cemetery in Rocky Mount, NC and their home

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New Video: Family Search Granite Vault

Shout out to Cindy’s list for tweeting the URLs to 2 new videos from FamilySearch re their granite vault. http://bit.ly/afZKho http://fb.me/FeuwFjNWless than a minute ago via FacebookCyndi Howells CyndisList I’ve put one of them in my sidebar as my featured video.  I’m always on the lookout for genealogy videos so this is a great addition.

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More Compiled Service Records @ Internet Archive

The Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center has added more compiled service records to the Internet Archive.  One of the latest additions are the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 1st through 6th Calvary.  There are 107 reels in this collection.  For more information about these

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2010 NCGenWeb in Review

Just a quick post to share our year in review highlight on the North Carolina USGenWeb project website.  I’ve now been webmaster for almost exactly one year!  The year-in-review highlights some of the milestones in the project this year and should we continue to keep it up, would be a great way to document some

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Tombstone Tuesday: William and Henrietta Bowers Bolinger

This Tombstone Tuesday post is dedicated to my friend & co-worker Rachel.  I’ve been working on her family tree for a few years now off and on and she recently did a little online searching of her own and found tombstone pictures of her 3rd great-grandparents, William Bolinger and Henrietta Catherine (Bowers) Bolinger.   They

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Historic Tennessee Newspapers Going Digital & Online!

One of my favorite historical newspaper resources is the Chronicling America site by the National Digital Newspaper Program partnership between the Library of Congress & the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The site contains digital images of  newspapers from 16 states covering 188-1922 and is a valuable source of information in our genealogical research. The

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52 Weeks to Better Genealogy – Week 22 (Part II) – Find-A-Grave

In my last post, I expressed my desire for a Find-A-Grave app for my smartphone and outlined several specific features I wished to see in the app.  After posting and sharing the link, I learned from Thomas that there was an ongoing discussion on the Find-A-Grave forums, and then someone posted a link to a

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52 Weeks To Better Genealogy – Week 22 (Find-A-Grave)

A couple of months ago I read an article about a Vanderbilt Engineering student named Ben Gotow and his work developing iPhone apps.  He developed an iPhone app for artists that has sold more than 20,000 units to date, an app for a Vanderbilt informatics group that allows anesthesiologists to view what’s going on in

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Vacation Day 3 – Can’t Get Enough Yearbooks

After learning yesterday that the Nashville Metropolitan Archives had a strong yearbook collection, I decided to spend my afternoon there today. I wrote to the email reference of the Archives last night and received a response that they had a print listing of the yearbooks they have available, so I requested this list upon my

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