Dig Up Your Roots and Find Your Branches: An Internet Guide to Genealogy and Family History Research

May 6th, 2009

Whether you are an adopter 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 Roots Web, “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.

Whether medical, genetic, genealogical or personal, the need to know one’s family history can be especially strong for adoptee. However, sometimes you must hurdle formidable barriers of sealed records, falsified birth certificates and uncooperative relatives in order to compile an accurate family tree. I Read the rest of this entry »

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 Read the rest of this entry »

May 6th, 2009

1_20081013_3912In 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 »

April 27th, 2009

germantroops1914_sm1On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, signaling the beginning of our first world war. The armistice was not signed until late in the year of 1918. Many casalties were suffered in World War I by soldiers and civilians alike. This is dedicated to their memory. Read the rest of this entry »

World War I

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, signaling the beginning of our first world war