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138 articles on finding ancestors, reading records, and keeping the story with the evidence.
November 10, 2021 · Tracy Hall
Did you have poor ancestors that lived on the eastern seaboard in the mid 1850’s? Especially in the New York City area. Have you researched and found the horrible homelessness of children? For 75 years between 1854 and 1929 up to 200,000 indigent children were taken from the c...
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October 30, 2021 · Christopher Hall
As we were traveling through mid-America, I was navigating through an unfamiliar city. While looking at my map on my phone I noticed a star. Several months or maybe even a year or two before, while doing some family history research, I had placed the star there. We were noting...
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October 20, 2021 · Tracy Hall
Recently I was reading an article about getting women more involved in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects. These subjects have typically been men dominated fields. The article was focused on Ireland and how there were some women who broke the barrier lon...
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October 10, 2021 · Tracy Hall
If there is one thing I try to stress to people, it is to learn the history surrounding where your ancestors came from. Is there a historical reason they left their homeland? Is there a historical reason your ancestors headed to a new area? History is very important and helps...
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September 30, 2021 · Christopher Hall
This is the sixth and final installment of Generation Two of our two-generation study and our thirteenth and final installment overall. This generation is concerned with Mark Hall Shearn born 1800 in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England and his family. The first generation was c...
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September 20, 2021 · Tracy Hall
How many of us have ancestors that left Ireland during the great famine or maybe even before or after, in search of better opportunities to take care of their families? How many people have issues tracing their ancestor path? Such as I have found my ancestors in Ireland and th...
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September 10, 2021 · Tracy Hall
While researching World War II information I stumbled upon a story of the liberation of a POW camp that had not been known at the time. Did you have any relatives that served in the European Theater of WWII? Maybe that helped with the liberation of POW camps?
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August 30, 2021 · Christopher Hall
This is the fifth installment of Generation Two of our two-generation study and our twelfth installment overall. This generation is concerned with Mark Hall Shearn born 1800 in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England and his family. The first generation was concerned with Mark’s so...
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August 20, 2021 · Tracy Hall
Do you have German ancestry? What do you know about the surnames in your family tree? Most commoners obtained their surnames around the 1300’s, the Middle Ages, and the surnames came from occupations, geography, characteristics or are often patronymic. In most cases, surnames...
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August 10, 2021 · Tracy Hall
Do you have Filipino ancestry? Have you had any issues with finding records for your family history? While genealogy research has not been a common thing in the Philippines, interest in it has started to grow. Below we will discuss things that you will need to know to get you...
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June 30, 2021 · Christopher Hall
This is the fourth installment of Generation Two of our two-generation study and our eleventh installment overall. This generation is concerned with Mark Hall Shearn born 1800 in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, England and his family. The first generation was concerned with Mark’s...
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June 21, 2021 · Tracy Hall
What do you know about the history of the Women's Army Corps (WAC)? Well I knew they were called WACs, and every time I hear the word WACs I start singing the song from White Christmas where they say “the WACs, the WACs that dressed in slacks.” Recently Fold3 added histories o...
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