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August 2005

House Stays in Family for 250+ Years

An article at The Staunton News Leader (Central Shenandoah Valley, VA) by Christina Murphy mentions a farm and house that has been in the family since 1745. In the United States, that has to be close to a record (if it’s not a record). Excerpt from the article: The community itself is as old as [...]

War records can aid family search

A neat little article (Dallas Morning News) by Lloyd Bockstruck, supervisor of the genealogy section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas, about some Revolutionary War records from Pennsylvania.

Lost Fortunes in the Family Tree (Slight Rant)

Another article (which is mentioned in the one about JK Rowling) from the Times Online (timesonline.co.uk), by Lois Rogers.

Plot twist shows Rowling is true Scot

An article about a genealogist researching JK Rowling’s ancestry, at the Times Online (timesonline.co.uk) by Camillo Fracassini and Lois Rogers, shows that JK Rowling is in fact, a true Scot (and not just an honorary one).

Scottish Family History Centre

An article by Jim Gilchrist at Scotsman.com News highlights Scotland’s Family History Centre, a £1.6million effort to link the General Register House and New Register House. When it’s finished, there will be a “one-stop single point of archive access to more than 40 million digitised records.