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Descendants of King David to Meet in Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Post reported recently on an amazing meeting coming up soon. A meeting of the descendants of King David are getting together in Jerusalem in May of next year. They say they are descendants of King David. They have … Continue reading


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Genealogy Research With Google Book Search

Google Book Search offers a way to help genealogists find online books and information to aid in their family history research. If you choose to search All books you will be given a list of all books within Google’s book … Continue reading


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A Walk Through The History of Time

A Walk Through Time is an NIST Physics Laboratory site that examines the history of time and keeping track of time across history. As I go back farther and farther into my family’s history, especially with the connections made deep … Continue reading


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Writing Family Reunion Letters

Dana Huff has a great post on writing “Family Reunion Letters” as part of your family reunion plans. Once you have collected as many addresses as possible, send copies of the family group sheet chart to each family. Ask that … Continue reading


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MemoryArchive: Preserving Our Memories Online

MemoryArchive is an interesting wiki, a form of Wikipedia for memories. Calling itself “the encyclopedia of memories”, it currently features over 600 memoirs about a variety of events, people, places, things, years, recovery, life in general. There are memoirs and … Continue reading


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Primary versus Secondary Sources: Research Until You Think It’s Right

Dana Huff writes about “Primary Sources Versus Secondary Sources” in an interesting educational post. If you have been researching your family history, you may have run into the classic pitfall. Primary sources can be expensive to obtain and difficult to … Continue reading


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Searching for the Lost Grave of Raymond Anderson, Monroe, Washington

The IOOF cemetery in Monroe, Washington, has lost my Grandfather Anderson. Raymond E. Anderson (1905-1974) was buried there in 1974. As far as we can tell from the family notes, his tombstone was paid for. But there is no tombstone … Continue reading


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Exploring the Past: Christopher Columbus Dug Up

I don’t know when it first started, but I’ve been intrigued by Christopher Columbus since I was a child. When I first visited Spain, I was thrilled to be in the land from which Christopher Columbus set sail from on … Continue reading


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David West Descendants

The following family tree is based upon the facts as best we know them. This is not a complete family tree, nor is it finished. It is not to be used as proof but as a guide to helping you … Continue reading


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Geographic Genealogy Research – Location

The following are links to articles and reference resources we’ve found to help with our family history research. If you find a link in error, please let us know. World Cities, Towns, Directories, and Maps For historical and current maps … Continue reading


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