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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Metes and Bounds Troubles

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I finally have most of my metes and bounds deeds platted. I wondered whether the free Deed Platter actually gave a correct representatio...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Plotting to find your Ancestors

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 Plotting or platting your ancestor's land isn't as easy as it may seem. I had previously used Google Earth to locate my ancestor...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Two brickwalls exploded today!

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The Virginia Memory project and Nan's careful reading of these many page difficult to read documents is responsible! Thanks Nan! I s...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Alex Forgey Found? A twenty year court battle

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I wrote in my last post that Alexander Forgey went missing several times in his life. I wondered whether anything else would surface for ...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

WANTED!!! A. Forgey between 1775 & 1779

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Alexander Forgey is one of the most elusive people I've researched. I have no idea where he was between the time he disappeared fro...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Lessons From Jamboree 2012

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This past weekend's Genealogy Jamboree live stream proved very helpful to me! All of the sessions from the first, dealing with placi...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

A Look at My Lulu Family History Book

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

How Many People does it Take to Write a Family History?

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It takes a village It literally does take a village to write a good family history book. I have seen very few good family history books. ...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Designing Your Own Genealogy Charts

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Really working hard trying to put my family history book together. I tried to make a pedigree chart using my gedcom file and saved it as a...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Searching for John and Nancy Forgey in Maury County, TN

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The search continues for John and Nancy Forgey documents in Maury County, Tennessee. I thought I might find them in deeds records. I sent...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

Join the Marines see Nicaragua??

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I've been collecting family pictures and scanning them for a Family History book. When I found a song at YouTube called Nicaragua I k...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

A Software Generated Family History

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I've been comparing software generated Family templates for creating a Family History. I started out by using my own Rootsmagic program....

Interchangeable Ancestors? The Family Search Tree

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Musical Ancestors? The game I've been playing at FamilySearch Tree . First an explanation of the situation at FamilySearch Tre...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Converting Your Blog to PDF Free

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My blog contains information which isn't recorded anywhere else . I've used it as a log for my research and consult it often.  ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Hugh Forgey reference Deeds Knox County, TN

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I've been so busy with the 1940 Census I haven't had time to do an analysis of the deeds I received from Knox County Archives for H...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Finding My Family 1940 Plus Indexing the First 1000 are the Toughest

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Kapple/Kappel family home on Forest in Chicago, Illinois A week has passed since the harrowing 1940 US Census debut. The first day left ...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

1940 US Census: Separating Communists from Patriotic Americans

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Actually Communists and Patriotic Americans were allies during WWII.  So Communists, leftists, rightists and everyone is encouraged to help...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Lonely Civil War Soldier Needs Your letters

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Some people are letter writers and some not. Nancy Forgey/Moss was in the latter. I never enjoyed writing letters either. Typing a letter is...
Friday, March 30, 2012

John R. Moss and Nancy Forgey Civil War Letter

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John R. Moss and Nancy Forgey Lick Creek Tennessee April 1, 1862 "Dear Wife, As you will not write to me I have concluded that I w...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Happy St. Patrick's Sister Mary Kathleen!

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! My Great-Great Aunt Sister Mary Kathleen (Bridget Mullen) was a Roman Catholic Nun. Her life story is very in...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Happy Dance Day plus email Address Log

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As you can see above I had Rachel listed as unknown. NO MORE. Nan Harvey has been working to breakdown a brickwall in her own Tyree line a...
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