Make a visit to the newspaper office or library. Many times your ancestors
will have "made the news"! In times past, it was common for newspapers to
provide family information about folks who were listed in articles. Of course, Read the rest of this entry »
May 6th, 2009
May 6th, 2009
Whether you are an adoptee searching for your blood ancestors or you have
encountered an orphan situation in your family tree, you will need special tools
to further your research. According to RootsWeb, "this research can be
complicated by such factors as whether this event took place recently or several
generations back, whether there was a legal, black-market, or an informal
adoption, whether an ancestor was reared by foster parents, and if the foster
parents were related or unrelated to the birth parents.
May 6th, 2009
Two major events shaped Jewish life of the past two hundred years: migration
and the Holocaust. Plus, few people today live where their ancestors lived a
century or two ago. As a result, many Jews believe they cannot trace their
family roots because:
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May 6th, 2009
Does one of these terms apply to you? According to Al Sosa, many people are
confused as to the proper use of the terms Hispanic and Latin. Spanish speakers
are themselves often in disagreement as to how these two terms should be
applied!
Read Al Sosa’s attempt to settle the issue in a scholarly rather than emotional Read the rest of this entry »
May 6th, 2009
If you research your family history long enough you will inevitably hear that
"great-aunt Mary’s father was an Indian". Most of these family stories are
unsubstantiated, however, many times the rumor turns out to be true!
On this page, I have included a variety of resources to assist you in your
Native American research!
May 6th, 2009
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S., let him
get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his
pockets, and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the
right to citizenship in the United States."
I am often asked about the difficulty of researching African American family
history. Many seem to believe, mistakenly I might add, that it is next to
impossible to trace African American ancestry prior to the mid-1800’s. The best
response I have seen to this thought was made by Alva Griffith on the AfriGeneas
Mail List:
"It is not a lost cause!!!… The first and foremost thing to keep in mind is
that Slaves Were Money !!! And people ALWAYS keep track of their money !!! If
your people were slaves, they will be found, I said WILL BE FOUND, in the slave
owner’s family records, treated as PROPERTY, so you will need to look at their
family’s deeds, wills, mortgages, wedding gifts, court records about property,
etc. And, yes, they often even have lists of slave births at the back of their
Bibles!
The biggest initial problem will probably be determining just who the owner was,
and there are methods for doing that… it just takes time, research and
patience, sometimes with a little luck thrown in for good measure… after that,
your people will be there, in their owner’s records. If your people were not
slaves, they will be found in the normal records in the normal places… a fair
number of us were not slaves… perhaps your people were free and moved to a new
location, and that is why you have not found them where you expected them to be
living.
Also MANY slaves had more than one name, and had different last names from their
owners… even BEFORE the end of slavery! A fair amount of them had 3-word-names
as well: my husband’s grandfather was Frank Thomas LOGAN- born in 1859, and he
was a slave until he was 7 years old, just as his mother, Mary Louisa LOGAN, had
been all her life; my own grandfather was born just after slavery in 1867, and
his name was Aaron Mitchell RHODES.
There are a number of resource books that you can get to read about how to do
this, the best (and latest) I know of being: Finding A Place Called Home, by Dee
Parmer Woodtor, publ[ished] by Random House. Much help is also available HERE at
Afrigeneas, where you can share the combined knowledge of numerous researchers
by email. I note that you are also at AOL, where we have 3 chat rooms devoted to
African American genealogy discussion live, and a Resource Area for your use.
Please don’t hesitate to take advantage of the many kinds of assistance
available to help you find your people." reprinted with the permission of Alva
Griffith .
May 6th, 2009
Over 16.5 million men and women served in the armed forces during World War
II, of whom 291,557 died in battle, 113,842 died from other causes, and 670,846
were wounded. This page is dedicated to their bravery and sacrifice.
Service Records
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May 6th, 2009
In September 25, 2008 she Western media in particular light on the so-called
Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian ship loaded with arms and demanding ransom
in return for the release of the ship and its crew, Confusion surrounds the
identity of the kidnappers real strong point of the ship reports indicated that
they were heading to southern Sudan and Kenya, the real point of the cover. And
non-interference of the Western military force existing In the Red Sea from the
U.S. warships, Russian and French to end the abduction of the ship by military Read the rest of this entry »
May 6th, 2009
U.S. Jewish lobby and its effect on the Darfurian issue:
Sources pointed out that the U.S. Jewish lobby organizations operating under the
cover of the four groups in the United States of America against the Sudan,
making the United States of America is stepping up its aggressive tone, and to
Sudan because the impact of pressure groups and the latest of which was
resolution of economic sanctions and trying to pass the sanctions by the
Security Council.
The information that one of the most important of these organizations: the
Organization of American Jewish World Service, which is headed by the Jewish
Ruth Messenger, one of the largest organizations in support of the Jews in the
United States of America, followed by the competent defense of Israel in
Congress and the U.S. comes after the organization of the Holocaust Museum and
the aim of protecting the security of all Israel through the confusing image of
Arabs in the United States of America and the fight against Islamic governments
of these organizations have of igniting the famous demonstration in 2006 in
February, organized by the Save Darfur Coalition, led by Ruth Messenger The Read the rest of this entry »
May 6th, 2009
Future role of U.S. forces in Africa (Africom): effects - Reflections -
options” was the title of the forum organized by the Center for the periodic
observer for Political and Strategic Studies in atheist ten of February 2009 in
the periodic forums in which he talked about by Dr. Safwat Subhi Fanous - Head
of Department of Political Science University of Khartoum, Major General Ismail
Mohamed Ali, a gathering of researchers and interested. We would like to come
through the area the most important abstracts extracted, as follows: –
1. Attributed the beginnings of the American military activities in Africa to
the barbarism of war, which began in 1801, but the continent has not been
incorporated in the American military command structure until 1952 when it added
a number of countries in North Africa to the European Command (Iyukom). Since
the beginning of forties of the twentieth century until 1971 the United States
maintained a four in one of thousands of military air bases near the city of
Tripoli, Libya, as well as in several other small bases in Morocco. In 1957 the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has established its office in the U.S. to Africa
after the U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon’s tour of the continent’s
three-weeks. With the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century, the
concentration of about 25 thousand U.S. troops in East Africa as part of the
United Nations troops carrying out humanitarian missions in Somalia during the
program “to restore hope.
2. Did not occupy the African continent for many years in addition to the
interest of U.S. foreign policy, which did not find in the French or British
influence in the continent a threat to their interests. Therefore, the African
continent as a strategic military map of the United States is divided between
three U.S. military leaders, as Egypt and the Horn of Africa countries belonging
to the Central Military Command, and the island of Madagascar were from the
Pacific Command, while the rest of the continent belongs to the European
Command. But the political and economic developments and security in the
continent in the last decade, and shifts in American policy after the attacks of
September 11 has changed the vision of policy makers and the American strategy
for the African continent. Thus, Africa is an area which represents the ratio of
35% of the world, with a population ratio of 25% of the world’s population, Read the rest of this entry »
