1 November 2020
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Descendants of John Burnett the Ist and Lucretia
The purpose of this project is to use Y-DNA testing to identify the Descendants and Ancestors of John and Lucretia Burnett of Essex County Virginia.
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Genealogical Forum of Oregon - 1890 Veterans Census
Index of Oregon Veterans and widows in 1890 census with spelling corrections and annotations.
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Genealogical Forum of Oregon - American Seamen’s Friend Society
The eighth annual meeting of the American Seamen’s Friend Society was held at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City on Monday evening May 9, 1836. This index provides the member's location in 1836.
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Genealogical Forum of Oregon - Bible Records
Index of names found in Bibles and Bible pages donated to the GFO.
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Grundy County, Missouri Genealogy and History - Genealogy Trails History Group
Grundy County Genealogy Trails offers free access to transcribed genealogical and historical records as an aid in ancestral and family tree research.
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James FORD was born the youngest children born on the Isle of Cumbrae in Scotland in the early 1800s to Samuel FORD and Margaret WRIGHT. The five youngest siblings, William, Susanna, John, Samuel, and James all immigrated to Australia in the mid 1800s. John, Susanna and Samuel settled in Kapunda and in a locality known as Fords in South Australia while William settled Ballarat in Victoria. James initially immigrated to Otago in New Zealand before he too moved to Ballarat and Bendigo in Victoria. Other family names associated with the initial immigrants include PURDIE, TREZISE, CORNISH, ALLEN, BOLTON, HALL and MUIR.
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Pioneers and Early Oregonians Donation Land Claims
7,373 claims in the index. Images can be ordered for a fee. From the Genealogical Forum of Oregon.
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Records of the American Seamen’s Friend Society
In the Mystic Seaport Museum collection
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Self Publishing | Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
Self-publish eBooks and paperbacks for free with Kindle Direct Publishing, and reach millions of readers on Amazon.
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The Parchment Rustler - Asking the Right Question: Part 1
The Parchment Rustler is a genealogy blog with a strong focus on research skills. The linked article is Part 1 of a three-part series on research methodology, exploring the very first stage in our research: how to write a research question. Illustrated examples are drawn from England & Wales research but the methods described are relevant to all researchers globally.
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The Parchment Rustler - Asking the Right Question: Part 2
The Parchment Rustler is a genealogy blog with a strong focus on research skills. The linked article is Part 2 of a three-part series on research methodology, exploring how to use a research question. This piece introduces the idea of the Haystack and Polished approaches, and looks at how these might come through in our choice of search strategy. Illustrated examples are drawn from England & Wales research but the methods described are relevant to all researchers globally.
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The Parchment Rustler - Asking the Right Question: Part 3
The final part in the Research Questions series of posts at The Parchment Rustler blog, this piece looks at how we can change the scale and scope of our research question to direct our genealogical investigations. It introduces the idea of the SAID elements of research (structure, action, innovation, direction) and considers how flexible thinking and a good question can contribute to a favourable outcome.
