http://www.munsons-of-texas.net/pic-mic.html
Sunday, August 21, 2011
The Munsons of Texas — an American Saga
http://www.munsons-of-texas.net/pic-mic.html
Munson, Underwood, Horn, Fairfield and Allied Families - Brazoria County, Texas
Genealogy and Family History of Laura Jane Munson and her brothers Joseph Underwood Munson Jr. and George Kennedy Munson, the children of Joseph Underwood Munson and Ruth Anna Horn, who were born and bred in Brazoria County, "Where Texas Began", and whose ancestors include Munson of South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas; Underwood of Massachusetts and Texas; Horn of North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma; Fairfield of Massachusetts, Maine, Indiana and Texas
http://brazoriaroots.com/index.htm
Founders of Dayton: Henry William, Micajah, and Jessie P. Munson
By Robert L. Schaadt, Feature Writer & Archivist | 0 comments
Henry William Munson (1793-1833), a native of Villa Bayoso, Miss., born on Jan. 15, 1793 to Jesse Munson, arrived in Texas as early as 1812 as a member of the Republican Army of the North.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Footnote is now Fold3
This announcement isn’t a complete change from what we’ve been doing. Some of our best and most popular work has been on military titles like the Revolutionary War Pension files, the Civil War Service Records and “Widows’ Pensions,” WWII Missing Air Crew Reportsand the Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.
This new focus will direct our content plans and allow us to organize the site around military records. In the future we’ll make other changes that will help us build the best online source for records related to the U.S. military, the men and women who have served and the families who support them.
You will still be able to access the great non-military records previously found on Footnote, but we’ll be adding millions of U.S. military records, like these that we’ve already begun work on:
- Word War II “Old Man’s Draft” Cards
- War of 1812 Pension Files
- Mexican War Service Records
- World War I Officer Experience Reports
- Confederate Casualty Reports
Sunday, August 14, 2011
'All Jews Are One Big Extended Family': Tel Aviv U. Professor Spearheads Global Jewish Genealogy Project,Steve K. Walz, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent
Posted Aug 03 2011
Itzhak Fouxon, an assistant professor of physics at Tel Aviv University, has taken the process one step further with his work for the Am HaZikron Institute, which assists Jews in finding familial links.
Library to host second genealogy workshop Aug. 20 - Mywesttexas.com: Top Stories
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"He is the Texas guru of genealogy," said Marie Humphrey, head of special collections. "He gears his program so everyone walks away with something new." Bockstruck's presentation is the second in the library's new series "Genealogy off the Shelves."
Library to host second genealogy workshop Aug. 20 - Mywesttexas.com: Top Stories: "Marie Humphrey"
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Herrick Family Association Reunion - Sept 15-18th 2011
Herrick Family Association Reunion Weekend
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~herrick/
Message from APG Nominating Committee - Sat, Aug 13, 2011
We're looking for a few good men and women to serve on the APG Board. But, despite a request for recommendations issued over a month ago, the nominating committee has not received enough suggestions to create a slate.
As members of APG, you have the right to make a recommendation and let the committee choose a slate for you to vote upon later this year. Wouldn't you like to provide some input on APG's direction? You can submit your own name or that of a colleague. We all know fellow members who could make valuable contributions to our
organization. APG currently has 2,400 members. There are plenty of candidates in that number and plenty of members to make recommendations. Dozens of your colleagues are simply waiting for someone to flatter them with a recommendation.
All you need to do is send your recommendations to admin@apgen.org (details below) and we will see if they’re willing to be nominated and, if elected, serve. We know there are many hidden gems among the membership, so think outside the box, and quickly, so the nominating committee can move the process forward.
Please read the original "call" below for details. Thank you for considering this request.
The Nominating Committee
Amy Arner
Brent Morgan
Gena Philibert Oretega
Call for Recommendations for Nominations for APG
Board Positions and Nominating Committee that take effect 1 January 2012.
Deadline for Recommendations: Postmarked or e-mailed by 1 August 2011.
Executive Committee for Two Year Terms for 2012-2013
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Board of Directors Positions for Two Year Terms for 2012-2013
Region 1 (Western Canada; Western U.S.; Mexico): Two vacancies
Region 2 (Middle Canada; Middle U.S.): Two vacancies
Region 3 (Southeastern U.S., Caribbean; Central America): Two vacancies
Region 4 (Eastern Canada; Northeastern U.S.) Two vacancies
International Region 5B: One vacancy (Europe, Iceland, Middle East, former Soviet republics)
Nominations Committee for One Year Term 2012: Two vacancies (The third committee member is a member
of the Board of Directors and is appointed by the Executive Committee.)
APG members are encouraged to recommend candidates for any region or position. Nominees shall be APG members in good standing who joined APG prior to August 1, 2010. Go to
http://www.apgen.org/
For each recommendation, include the nominee's name, regular mailing address, telephone, e-mail address, and a brief (50-100 words) statement of that person's qualifications for office. If you are nominating someone other than yourself, you must include a statement showing that person has agreed to be considered by the nominations committee.
Duties of the member of the Board of Directors as abstracted from the APG Procedure Manual, Section 8:
- Be familiar with bylaws, policies and procedures
- Read all minutes and communications, and come prepared to board meetings (held twice annually, at Rootstech and FGS in 2012)
- Respond in a timely fashion to e-mail votes
- Serve in at least one capacity besides that of Board member
- Make an effort to attend one of the two major annual conferences
- When in attendance at a conference, volunteer at the APG booth and host a table at the APG luncheon
- Maintain contact and communicate with the membership in some of the following ways: talking to other members, seeking out opinions, concerns, ideas; contributing to the APGQ; participating in APG List discussions; joining the local chapter where one exists
- Consider making a contribution to the APGQ, either an article or news item, at least once during their term of office.
Send Recommendations to:
APG Executive Director
admin@apgen.org
American Ancestors - Summer 2011
- Take 2 - Who Do You Think You Are? Returns to NEHGS - by D. Joshua Taylor https://plus.google.com/105065356995932052361
- It's All About Ancestors: Researching Ashley Judd's Genealogy - by Rhonda R McClure
- The Wild the Lawless and the Savage Irish - by Jim Boulden
- An Invitation to the Land - Reconstructing James & Eliza Conion's Migration to Minnesota - by Eileen Curley
- Joseph Weeden - A Long-Neglected Son of a Great-Migration Immigrant - by Robert Charles Anderson
- The New and Improved Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 - by Martin E Hollick
- Researching Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts 1650-1865 - by Joseph Carvalho III
- An 1877 Same-Sex Marriage in Nevada - An Episode in the Unconventional Life of Sarah Pollard - by J Homer Thiel
- Genetics & Genealogy (David G Bull) - "What? I'm Not Related to George Washington!"
- Manuscripts at NEHGS (Timothy G. X. Salls) - "The Adams, Cate and Witherle Collection Finds a Safe Harbor at NEHGS" https://plus.google.com/117517312584519461051
- Diaries at NEHGS (Robert Shaw) - "From John Hoyt's 1849 Diary: Impressions of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"
- Tales from the Courthouse (Diane Rapaport) - "Waiting for Ichabod: A Revolutionary War Wife's Tale"
- Focus on New York (Henry B Hoff) - "Seen Elsewhere: New York Related Articles in 2009-2010 Issues of Some Non-New York Journals"
http://www.americanancestors.org/american-ancestors-magazine/