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Auction full of American history

Revolutionary War bayonets, Colonial-era silverware and a piece of a gown worn by Martha Washington are a few of the items stuffing the shelves at the Absolute Auction Center in Pleasant Valley, New York.

Tied to each of the hundreds of artifacts are carefully written notes left by their late owner, Radford Curdy. A Hudson Valley historian, genealogist and archeologist, Curdy left behind an estate that few knew existed when he died in 2002.

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Worldwide Waldrons to gather in Knock, Ireland hotel

Arrangements are now being finalised for the third International Waldron Clan Gathering which takes place in Knock over this coming May Bank Holiday Weekend, Friday, April 29, to Sunday, May 1.
The Gathering takes a similar form to previous gatherings in 1997 and 2000, at each of which over 250 people attended. This time around, all events – except the Mass on Sunday – will take place in the Belmont Hotel, Knock.

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Area’s largest genealogy fair to be held in Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario

Stirling Senior School will be bursting at the seams on Saturday, August 27. No, it won’t be an early start to the school year, but it will be a full day of learning—for the genealogically oriented that is.

The Stirling-Rawdon Public Library in conjunction with the Stirling-Rawdon Historical Society and its Genealogy Committee will host a genealogy fair in the school. In the planning stages for almost a year, it is thought the annual event will be another good reason to visit the “Little Village with The Big Heart.”

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Oxford, MS woman honored with Ageless Hero award

Susie Mitchell Marshall, 91, will be awarded the Ageless Hero Award by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi today at the Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg. Marshall, who was born Dec. 12, 1913, on the Lafayette-Panola County line, will represent the North Region of the state as the “New Beginnings” recipient. “I was born before electricity ever got to Oxford, well in the country anyway,” Marshall said.

When Marshall finished school, she began her teaching career. “I taught back when there was one teacher, one room and 30 pupils,” Marshall said. “I taught grades one through eight for 14 years at Taylor Vocational Consolidated High School-Elementary.”

Since ending a 41-year career in education, Marshall has dedicated her life to the preservation of black history in Lafayette County.

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Pennsylvania workshop teaches research techniques to genealogists

Genealogists in need of help on specific research problems can take advantage of the Westmoreland County Historical Society's workshop on getting around the stumbling blocks of genealogical research.

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Historic photographs found on pillow

You never know it all.

If Jim Ricks and his sister, Elizabeth Ricks Avery, both of Greenville, hadn't made their most recent trip to Salisbury, NC a couple of weeks ago, they would never have known about the pillow.

Or about how their granddaddy, Theo Buerbaum, who owned a bookstore, made a place for himself in history a hundred years ago because he took hundreds, maybe thousands, of pictures that became a valuable historic record of Salisbury and Rowan County.

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Woman shares Pennsylvania log home with history

Union soldiers drank steins of beer and shared war stories by the fire in the same cozy room where Sue Schofield now talks about Boston Red Sox games.

Schofield's Welsh Run log cabin was originally built in 1786, with an addition constructed in the 1850s. When Schofield was house hunting in Pennsylvania, she told her Realtor she was looking for "something old with fireplaces."

The home he found boggled her mind.

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The good, bad of genealogy

There are good and bad assumptions in genealogy.

A "bad" assumption is one that prevents a researcher from finding information about his or her ancestors. These types of assumptions often are ones that put blinders on us and cause us to look at only a few groups of records rather than seeing the rich periphery of the many record groups in which information may be contained.

Here are some common "bad" genealogical assumptions:

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South Jersey cemetery a home to royalty

Dividing Creek may seem a strange place for royalty, but the Baptist Cemetery here holds the remains of a relative of two Napoleons: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, and Louis Napoleon, king of Holland.

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Ambitious New Programme For Ancestral Tourism

The Ancestral Tourism Steering Group has announced the appointment of Gillian Harrower to the post of Ancestral Tourism Project Manager for Scotland, to drive forward the group’s aims over the next two years.

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