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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Publishing Your Family History or Making Your own Reference books

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I've put together a brief narrative and descendant report using my Genealogy Software program, and Microsoft Word. I then saved it as ...
Monday, January 30, 2012

When fact and speculation become confused

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Often researchers have speculated about events which they did not have direct evidence for. Sometimes these specualtions become more than t...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Can you spot the problems?

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The following family group was compiled by a researcher who used the Scottish Church records at Family Search. The last child, Mary Fisher, ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

The Mysterious John Beaird

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Nan Harvey just found a marriage record for Eleanor/ Elinor Fisher and John Beaird. I suspected they had married in the late 1780's or ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Breast Complaint a Misdiagnosis?

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Now I am wondering whether "Breast Compliant" was a misdiagnosis? I am sure an accurate diagnosis would be hard to come by in ea...
Monday, January 16, 2012

What was "Breast Complaint"?

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Early medical terminology can be confusing. I've been looking for definitions of some of the diseases my early family had. Some of the...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

West Fork of Flat Creek Found?

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Field Stone marking Boston Grave's burial site on Little Flat Creek I've been continuing to trace the land of Hugh Forgey's ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Where oh where is the West Fork of Flat Creek?

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Where is the West Fork?  Being a Larry Hagman fan I know where South Fork is. Now I just need to find out where the West Fork of Flat Cre...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form/ Genealogy Source

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The National Register of Historic Places Registration Form I found this form to be a great resource for local history and family history. ...
Monday, January 2, 2012

To do list for New Year

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Last year was very productive genealogy wise. I joined Second Life last January which helped introduce me to the genealogy community on th...
Sunday, January 1, 2012

My Family and the Rose Parade

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My mother's family, the Forgeys, settled in Southern California in 1925. My Nicaraguan grandmother, Graciela Del Castillo-Forgey was a...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Nothing but Good News to end the Year with!

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It's been a really good year for genealogy :)!  I've had several major breakthroughs. I received the final DNA test results for my ...
Friday, December 30, 2011

My Canvas a Boring, Expensive Family History Book?

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I have been trying out the My Canvas family history book creator at Ancestry.com. You can view my own project here  View Annette's proj...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A Software Generated Family History

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I've been comparing software generated modified descendant registers for creating a Family History. You can generate a book using this r...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Santa and my Grandfather had the same Handwriting

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In 1936 my mother received this dictionary from Santa Claus :D with the inscription "From Santa Claus Dec. 25- 1936 Hope everyone h...
Monday, December 19, 2011

A Forgey Slept with Abraham Lincoln's....

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Cousin! Or so the story goes? It all hinges on a 15 year old WIDOW who married a 50 year old man, and an Indian Prince?  I found this juic...
Friday, December 16, 2011

More DNA results plus Serendipity

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Both Roger and Darren have now tested positive for Isles Scottish Clade I2b1a1 M284 L126 .  M284 probably originated in the British Isles ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Timeline Helps Clarify Alexander and Andrew lines

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What I've learned from the timeline Going over everything yet again I found still more facts I missed before. In the process of verifyin...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Was their father James, John or Alexander?

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Children of Andrew and Alexander Forgey As I stated in my previous post we have not proven who Andrew and Alexander Forgey's father w...
Friday, December 9, 2011

Alexander G. Forgey, Do We Have the Best Sources?

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Is this proven  I've written about Alexander G. Forgey in this blog before. I said I believed that he and Andrew Forgey of Maury County...