Sunday, February 26, 2012

This, from the BYU website: http://lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php "All of the books in the Family History Archives at BYU (including the medieval collections) have been moved to Family History Books at FamilySearch. Over 36,000 digital books are now available at Family History Books. You can click on the link below to go to Family History Books." http://books.familysearch.org/

Monday, February 6, 2012

So What Is On Your Genealogy Bucket List?

From the blog of Geniau at http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2012/01/bucket-list-geneameme.html comes an exciting idea for all genealogists to think about.

I invite all genealogists and family history freaks to join me by sharing your bucket list of events, places, people and resources you would most like to experience before you leave this mortal earth.

Here are the questions with out Geniau's answers:
1. The genealogy conference I would most like to attend is…
2. The genealogy speaker I would most like to hear and see is…
3. The geneablogger I would most like to meet in person is…
4. The genealogy writer I would most like to have dinner with is…
5. The genealogy lecture I would most like to present is….
6. I would like to go on a genealogy cruise that visits….
7. The photo I would most like to find is…
8. The repository in a foreign land I would most like to visit is…
9. The place of worship I would most like to visit is…
10. The cemetery I would most like to visit is ….
11. The ancestral town or village I would most like to visit is….
12. The brick wall I most want to smash is….
13. The piece of software I most want to buy is….
14. The tech toy I want to purchase next is…..
15. The expensive book I would most like to buy is…
16. The library I would most like to visit is…..
17. The genealogy related book I would most like to write is….
18. The genealogy blog I would most like to start would be about….
19. The journal article I would most like to write would be about…
20. The ancestor I most want to meet in the afterlife is….
21. The celebrity I’d most like to see on Who Do You Think You Are? is….
22. The genealogical research skill I would most like to have is…. the sudden ability to read and comprehend French, because it would make research so much easier.
23. The genealogy tech gadget I would most like to invent is….
24. The genealogical records I would most like to see become available online are….
25. The family heirloom I would most like to own is….
26. The living cousin I would most like to find is…

So what’s on your genealogy bucket list?

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Pettigrove or Pettigrew Query

Need parents and documentation of birth date and place of Paulina Pettigrove/Pettigrew b. abt. 1816 poss. in Edgecomb; m. 31 Jul 1834 Somerset Co. Jacob Frye. They res. Wilton in 1840 and in Patten until her death in 1873. Contact Ed Holt #1159, holtfam@igc.org

Ed Holt
28 Headland Rd.
Harpswell, ME 04079