Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Find Your Pennsylvania Ancestors in Ledger Books

Find Your Pennsylvania Ancestors in Ledger Books
AncestorsAtRest has the following store ledgers online for Pennsylvania

Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest 1858 Bucks County Ledger PDF files available for download
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Bernville, Berks County, Pennsylvania 1867 to 1877 Haag, Kline & Co Ledger. Over 1000 names.
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Bernville, Berks County, Pennsylvania 1863 to 1870 Haag, Kline & Co Ledger. Over 300 names. PDF file available for download

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Find Virginia Ancestors in Store Ledger Books

Find Virginia Ancestors in Store Ledger Books
AncestorsAtRest has the following store ledgers online for Virginia

Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest S. R. Turley Ledger Book, Culpeper Virginia. 1896 PDF files available for download Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia Court Records Ledger. ALL PAGES ONLINE
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest History Of Tazewell County Virginia Book Sales Ledger. ALL PAGES ONLINE 

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Oswego County New York Saw Mill Ledger Book online

Oswego County New York Saw Mill Ledger Book online
AncestorsAtRest has the following store ledgers online for New York

 Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Oswego, Oswego County, New York 1858 ~ 1859 Samuel Stevenson Saw Mill Ledger Book. PDF file available for download
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Oswego, Oswego County, New York 1875 Samuel Stevenson Saw Mill Ledger Book Money Owed . PDF file available for download
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Oswego, Oswego County, New York Samuel Stevenson Saw Mill Ledger Book List of Electors . PDF file available for download

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Look for New York Ancestors in Ledger Books Online

West WInfield Academy Cash Book
AncestorsAtRest has the following store ledgers online for New York

Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Rushford and area, Allegany County, New York 1868 ~ 1872 Stacy And Kyes Ledger Book. FULL INDEX ONLINE.

Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest West Winfield, Herkimer County, New York 1865 ~ 1866 West Winfield Academy Cash Book. OVER 400 NAMES
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Richfield, Otsego County, New York Auction sale 1880 ~ 1890. Found in the West Winfield Academy Cash Book. OVER 200 NAMES


Monday, October 12, 2015

Ancestry is Looking for Folks to Star in their Next TV Commercial

Have you ever wanted to be on TV? Now's your chance! Submit a video sharing how you started using Ancestry.com, and you might be the one chosen to star in their next commercial.

Here's how to do it:


Answer the following questions about your experience. Just three minutes or less on a smartphone to share your story.
  • How did you get started and what steps led to your first discovery?
  • Was it easier or faster than you thought it would be? Why?
  • What did you learn? Did it make you feel differently about yourself or your family?
Submit your video file  by October 13, 2015, along with a few more details about yourself. To be eligible, you’ll need to be available for a day of filming sometime between October 26th and 28th.


Monday, September 21, 2015

Missouri Store Ledger Books Online

Missouri Store Ledger Books Online
AncestorsAtRest has the following store ledgers online for Missouri

Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Wheeling, Livingston County, Missouri 1879 to 1889 Ledger Book Of Edward Moore. OVER 300 LOCAL NAMES PDF files available for download
Find Death Records on Ancestors at Rest Fillmore Village, Andrews County, Missouri. Town Council Minutes 1900-1913 PDF file available for download

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Sunday, September 06, 2015

Mass Grave Suggests Ancient Village Wiped Out by Massacre


Cemetery
The Dead Still Speak
A 7,000-year-old mass grave holding at least 26 adults and children, many of them with smashed skulls and broken legs, is likely evidence of an early Neolithic massacre, a new study finds.
Most of the cranial bones show signs of blunt-force trauma, the researchers said. A number of individuals also had broken leg bones (tibiae and fibulae), indicating they were tortured before death, or mutilated afterward, said the study's lead researcher, Christian Meyer, a bioarchaeologist who conducted the study while at the University of Mainz in Germany.

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Friday, September 04, 2015

Volunteers honoring those buried in unmarked graves at forgotten cemetery for mentally ill


Unmarked Graves
Many graves go unmarked and forgotten.


For almost 80 years, no one is thought to have visited Peter Gauslin's grave.
Relatives didn't know where he was buried or how he died until his great-grandson Andrew Daft began researching family history in 2012 and learned his death occurred at a mental institution. He also discovered that Gauslin, his grandmother's father, is buried in an unmarked grave in Appleton, about 100 miles north of Milwaukee.
Gauslin is among tens of thousands who were buried in unmarked graves around the nation during the 20th century after dying at state- or county-run psychiatric hospitals, then called insane asylums or sanitariums. Families were either too poor for a headstone, couldn't be reached or had forgotten about their relatives.

Maine Store Ledger 1922-1927 online

Maine Store Ledger 1922-1927 online
AncestorsAtRest has the following store ledger online

Maine Store Ledger 1922-1927 PDF files available for download Index, P. 1, P. 23, P. 43, P. 63, P. 85, P. 105, P. 123, P. 215, P. 241, P. 273

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Got Ancestors in Maine? Check this Store Ledger for Ancestors

Got Ancestors in Maine?
AncestorsAtRest has the following Ledger Books on site for Orono, Lagrange, Howland, Penobscot County Maine

Orono, Lagrange, Howland, Penobscot County, Maine 1923 to 1925 Store Ledger

170 Million Wills online FREE Sept 2-7!

FREE 170 Million Wills Now on Ancestry!
 More than 170 million pages from the largest collection of wills and probate records in the United States is now available online exclusively on Ancestry. 

With searchable records included from all 50 states spread over 337 years (1668-2005), this unprecedented collection launches a new category of records for family history research never before available online at this scale the United States.   

Until now, these records have only been available offline. Ancestry spent more than two years bringing this collection online, working with hundreds of different archives from individual state and local courts across the country and making a $10M investment to license and digitize the records. The documents cover well over 100 million people, including the deceased as well as their family, friends and others involved in the probate process. Ancestry expects to continue to grow the collection, with additional records available over the next several years.

To celebrate the launch of the new U.S. Wills and Probates collection on Ancestry,, the collection along with all U.S. birth, marriage and death records, will be available to explore for FREE, September 2 (12pm MT) through September 7 (10pm MT). 


Here are the records available as of today:


Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Coffin Plate Of Mary Jones 1871 - 1913

Coffin Plate Of Mary Jones
Mary Jones 1871-1913
This interesting Art Nouveau Coffin Plate for Mary Jones 1871-1913 was popular in the 1890-1920 time period. It is made from silver plated cast Pot metal—also known as monkey metal.

Mary Jones Died Jan 16, 1913 age 42 years.

If you would like to look for your ancestors Coffin Plate I have over 500 more at.... 

AncestorsAtRest.com

Friday, August 07, 2015

Four Skeletons Identified as Original Jamestown Settlers

The bodies of four original settlers of Jamestown Colony have been identified! They are minister Robert Hunt, Sir Ferdinando Wainman, Captain Gabriel Archer and Captain William West.
 

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Use A Relationship Calculator to Help with DNA Matches


A Relationship Calculator Helps with DNA Matches
If you are like me, whenever you get a DNA match that says the match is possibly a 3rd or 4th cousin, you can't remember or are not sure how to figure out where your common ancestor might be in your ancestry - a grandparent, a great-grandparent....??  In other words, how do you narrow the list of suspects candidates? 

Sunday, August 02, 2015

Favourite Canadian Genealogy Site?

Now's your chance to nominate your favourite site for Canadian genealogy.  Nominations are open until August 3rd so don't delay.

I'm happy to see Olive Tree Genealogy website on the list of pre-nominated sites! Check the list and see if there are some missing that you think need to be considered.


Saturday, August 01, 2015

The Coffin Plates Of Jonathan Abrams And Mary Abrams

Jonathan Abrams 
Died April 28th 1918
Aged 64


Mary Matilda Abrams 
Died April 27. 1924
Aged 66 years 10 mons

This group of Coffin Plates is for a husband and wife. I am told Jonathan Abrams was from Ontario Canada.

Submitted by Brad Abrams

View more Coffin Plates at http://ancestorsatrest.com

Friday, July 31, 2015

J K Rowling on Who Do You Think You Are?

J. K. Rowling on Who Do You Think You Are? This Sunday
Who Do You Think You Are? “J.K. Rowling” (US premiere, originally aired in the UK)
Tune In: J.K. Rowling’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? airs Sunday, August 2 at 9/8c on TLC

 Ancestry.com , the leading family history company, is teaming up again with TLC as a sponsor. As part of the show sponsorship, Ancestry provides exhaustive family history research on each of the featured celebrities to help make discoveries possible and build out the story of each episode.
Famed Harry Potter author and philanthropist JK Rowling is eager to trace the  French roots of her maternal side, having always been very close with her mother who’s passed away. She knows that her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, received the Legion d’honneur for his WWI efforts, but she doesn’t know why. 

She embarks on a journey in France to trace her mother’s roots. She discovers that a family war story might not be what she thought when military records reveal a surprising truth. Tracing the trail even further back, Jo learns of her 2x great-grandmother, who had plenty of struggles both as a poor, single mother and a witness to German invasion during wartime, which forced her family to choose sides in a time of turmoil.