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Wisconsin Historical Society Pre-1907 Birth Index

February 28, 2006 at 8:48 pm » Comments (0)

The Wisconsin Historical Society has developed a Pre-1907 Wisconsin Birth Index, which may be viewed on the web at the following link: www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords. The society developed the index by digitizing a 1970s microfiche index, then expanding it with tens of thousands of delayed births, or births that were filed many years after the event, that [...]



Keep E-mail addresses up to date

February 28, 2006 at 7:10 am » Comments (0)

Many family history researchers belong to e-mail lists at Rootsweb.com, one of the oldest and most active genealogy sites online.
As a reminder, if you are a Rootsweb e-mail user, and do change e-mail addresses, you should “unsub” your old e-mail address (before you change it) and then subscribe your new address to get you either [...]



Philbricks, Folsoms, Soules, Bunkers, Williams

February 10, 2006 at 9:32 pm » Comments (0)

One fascinating aspect of genealogy is that, as you go back in time in the United State to the colonial period, the greater the likelihood that you will find extensive marriages among the members of two large families. Those of us who have been tracing Bunker/Williams families have learned of the marriages between members of [...]



Photo Albums on the Web

February 7, 2006 at 10:43 pm » Comments (0)

Having been bitten by the digital photography bug a couple of years ago, I have been slowly organizing old files and photographs into digital archives. Current photos are available for viewing in albums posted on a companion site: http://greencity.phanfare.com. Phanfare specializes in making photo albums easily accessible over the web, and, while there are similar [...]



The new blog is up

February 6, 2006 at 7:51 pm » Comments (0)

Sunday, I got the combined blog up and running yesterday after struggling a bit with PHP and the MySQL data bases on my server. Bunker Family Association related items will be in a separate category with its own RSS feed:
(http://www.greencity.org/blog/wp-rss2.php?cat=5).
Roblee researchers also have a feed
(http://www.greencity.org/blog/wp-rss2.php?cat=6).
Right click on the above links and paste into [...]



If you have New England ancestors

February 4, 2006 at 6:53 pm » Comments (0)

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