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August 2005

Family Tradition: Reunions

Jay Wilson, in the The Decatur Daily, wrote a good article about how important family reunions are, and some of the problems they face (the younger family members aren’t always as enthusiastic about them as some of us older folks).

Museum’s Database Aids Family Research

An article (The Republican/MassLive.com) by John P. O’Connor, about a fairly amazing database he put together to aid genealogists might interest you (and maybe generate some interest in people doing the same in other communities)

Video-Playing Tombstones

I’m not sure what to say about this one, so I’m going to let it speak for itself. The article is at local6.com, a Central Florida TV station (WKMG).

The Pride of Penzance

Mark J. Price wrote an article in the Akron Beacon Journal (OH), about a genealogist who started out to document her grandfather’s genealogy, and ended up writing the history of a colony of Cornish immigrants from the early 1900s.

Article about Cyndi Howells (Cyndi’s List)

Sarah Slavick wrote an article in the Missourian (Columbia, Missouri), Conference helps uncover past, about the Missouri State Genealogical Society’s 25th annual conference. It just so happens that Cyndi Howells was the keynote speaker (Cyndi as in Cyndi’s List). It mentioned some of her family’s background (including her great-great-great-grandfather, a Union soldier who escaped from [...]