by Deb | Feb 6, 2011 | Family Reunions
This week I’m working on my Beardsley family and found a distant cousin. Kevin helped me to connect my family to my elementary school best friend, Diane. I’m beginning to think I’m related to all of my school buddies from Bradford County, PA....
by Deb | Feb 1, 2011 | Duart Family
I’m working with the Duart family again and taking a course in One-Name study to improve my website http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duart.html to help the Duarts around the world locate others researching the same name. The one big thing that my research and...
by Deb | Jan 29, 2011 | Duart Family
Well folks, it has been 100 years since Sir Fitzroy MacLean bought and restored Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It lay in ruin for over a hundred years before that and probably was built in the 13th century. In 2012 the Clan Maclean will hold an...
by Deb | Jan 25, 2011 | Daughters
Our local DAR Chapter has been working on documenting Revolutionary War Patriot Homes that are still in existence in Dauphin Co., PA. We have made a good start, but have opened up to the remainder of the State of Pennsylvania to add additional homes that have been...
by Deb | Jan 24, 2011 | Generations Remembered
Today I’m on a mission to locate a living relative for a client. The person was born in 1930 after the 1930 U.S. Federal Census was taken. So where do I go next. I tried the county websites for the last known address, which was in 1980. Nothing popped up...
by Deb | Jan 20, 2011 | Generations Remembered
Today starts my Pharos course on One-Name Studies. I have registered my Duart family name with the variants of Dewart, Doward, Dhu-Ard and Duard. This should help me reach out to others researching the family name. It is a fun course, from England, done entirely on...
by Deb | Jan 14, 2011 | Daughters
I work on many lineage society applications, so do research on the NSDAR website and am amazed what connections I find in my research for others. Today I need to send a birthday card to a “daughter” in my local DAR chapter, looked her up on the NSDAR...
by Deb | Jan 7, 2011 | Generations Remembered
Last week I got an email about a complimentary webinar from Legacy Family Tree. I thought I’d try it out. I have taken other course through webinars and found them fun and informative. It was Google for Genealogy web products. What an amazing search engine...
by Deb | Jan 5, 2011 | Daughters
I began my preservation career as the first Chairman in the State of Pennsylvania for the historic preservation committee in NSDAR and in the first year we had the first ever Historic Preservation Project Contest National, Regional and State winner. Our local DAR...
by Deb | Jan 3, 2011 | Family Reunions
New Years is a good time to follow up with those relatives you haven’t heard from in awhile. Did you get a Christmas card from them that just had their name. What a waste of a stamp and card. It only confirms they are still alive. Give them a call. You can...
