After searching for over 6 months I finally found the names of my great-great grandparents! I did it using a Social Security Application linked from an index that I searched on Ancestry. To make it even more amazing, these were the names of the parents of my immigrant ancestor who […]
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Have you ever looked at a City Directory, seen an “r” or an “h” and just assumed it meant ‘rented’ or ‘home?’ Well they don’t! You are missing out on a great deal of genealogical information if you do not understand what lies beneath City Directory Abbreviations and their meanings.
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There’s one simple trick you should do to customize your Ancestry homepage, and if you’re not doing it you’re wasting time. It’s a simple way to unlock the power of your Ancestry homepage in your favor and remove the clutter of unwanted blips and blobs overwhelming you every time you
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In considering “Nature versus Nurture” and adoption, we find a GENEALOGY PARADOX. From the perspective of an adoptee I have found that NATURE outweighs NURTURE by some degree! The paradox comes in the fact that while our adoptive parents raise us, our biological ancestry does play a significant and inescapable
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If the Don was Roger Goodell, he says “You’re Fired!” to Protesting Players in the NFL. President Donald J. Trump has taken to social media stating unequivocally that any NFL player that wants to take a knee in protest to our country should be fired. Here’s what Donald Trump had
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President Donald J. Trump addressed the 72nd UN General Assembly on Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 at the permanent United Nations headquarters in New York. This is the first time our President has addressed the UN. Watch and read the full speech below. FULL TRANSCRIPT. “Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, world
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All this fuss about tearing down our Civil War statues and monuments initially got me into a rage. The more I thought about it, however, the more I realized it’s all MEANINGLESS! Don’t let these acts of illegal historicide get you down, here’s how you can act now. There are
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Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest was among the most brilliant tacticians of the Civil War. Having served the Confederacy with such distinction and valor that even Ulysses Grant and Tecumseh Sherman could not help heaping military praises upon the man! Nathan Bedford Forrest’s infamy is illustrated in this incredible Civil
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Which side of the Civil War would you be on if you had to choose now? Would you join the Union or the Confederacy? More importantly, HOW would you make that choice? Would you choose because of where you live? Because of how you were raised? Because you like the
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Why did a ship runaway from it’s mission under direct orders in April 1861? Civil War Blunders abound but this one involves the USS Powhatan, Fort Sumter, and an over-ambitious lieutenant named David C. Porter. History recalls this story as the Seward-Meigs-Porter Affair. As the story goes, at the outset
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Why was the Civil War lost? It’s not why you think: the Civil War was lost before it even started! It was lost sometime around 1846, some 15 years before fighting actually broke out in 1861. According to author Clifford Dowdey, the South got caught in a LOGICAL TRAP that
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You may have missed this! In President Donald Trump’s message to the Federal, State, and Local law enforcement he was NOT advocating police brutality as is being spun by the mainstream media, but was letting these MS-13 “thugs” and “animals” know that they cannot and will not be able to
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It’s a matter of trust! Should I make my Ancestry tree public or private? Below are 3 PERSPECTIVES that will help you decide how you control access to your family information. Ancestry’s tree settings are basically like a light switch: it’s either ON or OFF. Wouldn’t it be nice to
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The Senate voted 55 to 45 against repealing O***aCare today in a landmark event which really has nothing to do with healthcare and everything about disestablishment. Despite this ‘setback’ President Donald Trump’s health care plan is not dead yet. He will repeal and replace those spiteful Democrats in his way,
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I’ve seen the question being asked over and over on social media: “how do I translate genealogical records into English?” There is one simple answer to that question . . . GOOGLE TRANSLATE. While this free service will not instantly translate every nuance of a passage, it will help you
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