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"This is a Norwegian genealogy research guide, written in English, by the writing team of Liv Birgit Christensen, and Margaret H. Strand – a Norway native, and a Scottish expat with over 40 years living in Norway. Both women are genealogists with wide experience. This volume allows an in-depth look at Norwegian genealogy. Just a few of the many topics covered in the book are: How to begin doing Norwegian research, farm books, wikis, Norway facts,...
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This book is about the heavenly kingdom, and this glorious eternal kingdom has a name: Jerusalem. It is about the gospel and the grand scheme of things. Here we will connect all the dots, and we will be able to see the big picture. There is only one story to tell, and two witnesses were chosen. There is only one prophecy but three prophetic instructions, and the completion will take seven thousand years.
The gospel is not just the power of God for...
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During the Industrial Revolution Devon underwent de-population as younger people left to enter numerous occupations created by new technologies.Younger people left the countryside for jobs being created in the rapidly expanding towns and cities in Great Britain. But they also emigrated overseas and joined up with the economic development occurring globally.Since 1800, branches of the Trist family have sprung up in various parts of the world: in Canada,...
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Changes to the laws of inheritance combined with the traditional system of male entail facilitated the rise or maintenance of a small leisured class which could participate in the political community and the church. It seems likely that Nicholas Trist of Harberton and Totnes (1668-1741) leveraged his lucky double inheritance from his brother and maternal uncle to enhance his business interests. These could well have been in the woollen serge industry...
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2023.
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This book is comprised of about 500 biographies of physicians and surgeons in Harford County from 1774 to 1924, its first 150 years. It also includes veterinarians, but not dentists, druggists, opticians, and chiropractors, unless the physicians also provided those services. It focuses on men and women who were medical doctors skilled in the art and science of healing the sick and injured. Back in the olden days, before women doctors, they were known...
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User Guide to Microfilm and Microfiche is intended for anyone who is just that, a user of these technologies. This inexpensive guide will help anyone learn the best way to read microfilm and microfiche data, and to help preserve these somewhat fragile media. The author is a long-time Computer Science professor with considerable experience with multiple digitization projects for numerous organizations. He first used microfilm professionally and 1961...
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2023.
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"The Maryland proprietors required that every new land tract in their province be given a name when it was first surveyed. This greatly helps in tracking the tracts’ later histories and in assembling tract maps. This practice continued with the State of Maryland land office after the Revolution, so almost every piece of private land in Maryland has its origin with a named tract, with a survey and patent recorded in the Maryland State Archives (MSA).Using...
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[2022]
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"There are twenty-three African American cemeteries in Harford County, Maryland. Some of the tombstones and grave markers were copied by various people at times since the 1960s and the information was filed with the Historical Society of Harford County; however, the author realized that these lists were incomplete and an update was needed. In 2018 the author visited these African American cemeteries and copied every tombstone and grave marker he could...
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2023
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"This volume is the fifteenth in the author’s series on Maryland marriages and the seventh book for Harford County. It is a comprehensive compilation of about 1,000 marriages for the five-year period from 1881 through 1885 inclusive. Information was gleaned from marriage licenses and certificates, newspapers, tombstone inscriptions, church registers, Bible records, obituaries, death certificates, and some family histories and other secondary...
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[2021]
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This volume is the fourteenth in the author’s series on Maryland marriages and the sixth book for Harford County. It is a comprehensive compilation of about 1,000 marriages, actual and implied, for the five years from 1876 through 1880 for persons married during that time and who also remarried later, and the marriages of many of their children. Marriages and vital information were gleaned from license books, marriage certificates, probate records,...
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2023.
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"Census records are very important research tools for genealogists and cultural historians. In the United States, beginning in 1790, the census was taken every ten years. The 1890 census, however, was lost in a fire in 1921 and only fragments survived, but none for Maryland. This two-volume compilation is a reconstruction of that census for Harford County, which identifies approximately 90% of the 28,980 people in Harford County at that time. Since...
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2023.
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"Census records are very important research tools for genealogists and cultural historians. In the United States, beginning in 1790, the census was taken every ten years. The 1890 census, however, was lost in a fire in 1921 and only fragments survived, but none for Maryland. This two-volume compilation is a reconstruction of that census for Harford County, which identifies approximately 90% of the 28,980 people in Harford County at that time. Since...
19) Translating your past: finding meaning in family ancestry, genetic clues, and generational trauma
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"Uncover the spiritual strength of your family story. We all have a desire to learn more about where we've come from, and technology has made this more possible than ever. But our family stories are more than a list of DNA results on a piece of paper or a bunch of fading Kodachrome images filling old photo albums. In an era often marked by both fragmentation in family and culture and a hunger to discover our genetic roots, our family stories--including...
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COOKING WITH ANNIE D: SOUTHERN RECIPES SEASONED WITH SEAGRAVES AND PETTYJOHN FAMILY HISTORY. The South is known for its delicious food. In this down-home cookbook, you will find plenty of Southern recipes along with Seagraves and Pettyjohn family history. Annie D's Pettyjohn family moved from the North Georgia mountains to Athens, Georgia, in 1933, eventually settling in a house in what is today the Boulevard Historic District. Her husband, Nelson...
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