April 24, 2011

This year, give Mom a gift with deeper roots.

This year, give Mom a gift with deeper roots.
A journey through her family history.

It’s never been easier for Mom to learn about the fascinating ancestors who helped make her the person she is today. With an Ancestry.com embership, she can simply enter a little information and start discovering, preserving and sharing her family history right away.


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April 18, 2011

Colonial Family Histories #1, 1607-1920

Follow your family origins back to Europe, then gather new details as you trace it forward again! Each family history article included gives the British or European pedigree of the colonial ancestor, then lists his descendants up to the time of the article's writing. Referencing approximately 142,000 individuals, this database contains contains information from sources like genealogies, family histories, vital records, cemetery inscriptions, marriage records, and birth and death lists from various parts of colonial America. 
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April 15, 2011

Index to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, 1848-1864


This database is an index to one of Ireland's premier genealogical resources, Griffith's Valuation. It references more than one million individuals who owned property in Ireland between 1848 and 1864. Since no Irish census of the nineteenth century has survived, Griffith's Valuation is a record of extreme importance. It is, essentially, the only detailed guide to where in Ireland people lived during the mid-nineteenth century and what property they possessed. In effect, Griffith's Valuation can be used as a census substitute for the years before, during, and after the Great Famine.

Few other records can be used to identify an Irish ancestor's exact place of origin, and only Griffith's Valuation links an individual to a specific townland and civil parish. This information is very beneficial since identifying an ancestor's townland and civil parish is the first step in Irish genealogical research.

Listings Include:
- The individual's name.
- The county and parish where they resided at the time of the valuation.
- Some records contain additional information about an individual's occupation, religion, or relative's names.

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April 10, 2011

Search Civil War era records, free.

Some of the most riveting Civil War stories aren’t in the history books.

 Tales of ordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances — maybe even your own ancestors — live on in Civil War era documents here at Ancestry.com.


 Discover your Civil War story today.

http://www.ancestralfindings.com/CivilWar.htm 

Virginia Family Histories #2, 1600s-1800s


Although an especially valuable resource for tracing your family tree, family histories such as these are often difficult to locate since they are usually not published for wide distribution. A family history is a written account of a family's immediate and extended relationships. Often, a family history begins with an explanation how a family's surname was derived. Then, beginning with the oldest known ancestor, family lines are traced up to the time of publication. Along with biographical information on each family member, this often includes illustrations or photographs of individuals or places significant to the family.

Data Sources:
The five volume set entitled Genealogies of Virginia Families consists of family history articles originally published in The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine between 1892 and 1942. The family history articles included in Virginia Gleaning in England were first published in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography between 1903 and 1926.

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April 2, 2011

Kentucky Family Histories #1, 1700s-1800s


This database contains images of the pages from the three-volume series Genealogies of Kentucky Families, Volumes I-III. These books contain family history articles collected from The Filson Club History Quarterly as well as articles from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, published between 1903 and 1965. The latter set of articles includes every Bible record and genealogical fragment published in the register.

Referencing approximately 51,000 individuals and covering the entire state of Kentucky, the majority of the records included in this database are from the 1700s and 1800s.

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