by Deb | Mar 6, 2011 | Daughters
The Harrisburg Chapter DAR Historic Preservation Committee started a project to identify and document Revolutionary War Patriot Homes in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It is an ambitious project, but very interesting to see how many homes that were built in late 1700s...
by Deb | Feb 28, 2011 | Generations Remembered
For those of you who are following WDYTYA on Fridays, this past week was different from the others. Kim Cattrall was tracing her long, lost grandfather and found out he was quite the scoundral. This is a far cry from the wonderful, wonderful lives of most of the...
by Deb | Feb 20, 2011 | Generations Remembered
Another good week on Who Do You Think You Are? This week was Rosie O’Donnell, last week Tim McGraw and the first week was Vanessa Williams. All were well researched by the best in the industry. It will give you an idea it is very easy, but it took a lot of...
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...
