GOOGLE documents and spreadsheets for genealogy blog writing

GOOGLE Docs & Spreadsheets -- why would you want to use GOOGLE's free online document and spreadsheet creation, editing, and document storage program to create a genealogy blog page when your blogging software already has a wysiwyg editor? well, here are a few reasons for that and for other things, too:

1. number one for me is that the interface is roomy, so i'm not constantly having to scroll up and down after adding forty lines of text.

i know that blog entries are supposedly supposed to be short, that readers purportedly don't like reading large chunks of text on a browser. however, researchers slogging their way through a blogging interface is already challenging enough. if we're looking for a new resource or a quick link or tutorial, that's one thing. if we're looking for an entire family, that's quite another.

i really appreciate the genealogy blog that gives me good, meaty-sized hunks of information in one entry; and so that's what i try to do. but that often means having to move up and down inside the textarea of the editor to double-check that i'm not repeating myself or to make sure i'm not leaving something important out. the typical blog interface is, as i've noted, forty lines long. then you've got to start scrolling to go back and check things. yech!

with GOOGLE documents and spreadsheets, i can have most of my entire screen in which to work. it's much like using a word processor. and, as in my blogging software interfaces, i can opt to edit my html when necessary and with ease. or not.

2. my number 2 is likely number 1 for other genealogists: GOOGLE lets you collaborate in creating the documents and/or spreadsheets online. last week, GOOGLE combined the well-respected WRITERLY, which it had purchased, to its already free online spreadsheet program. that gave users a tested interface and the ability to collaborate and share documents online with ease.

3. GOOGLE stores the documents you create free for you. if you want to "publish" to the web, GOOGLE lets you do that and stores the documents for you.

you can also simply store the documents you create online with compliments of GOOGLE. although there is a limit for uploading images to use in your documents, there is no set storage or transmission limit for the texts you create. you can view the terms of use for GOOGLE Docs & Spreadsheets | here |.

4. docments created with the online software may be saved and downloaded in many different, popular formats :

Microsoft Word

OpenOffice

.rtf

.pdf

HTML

zip

spreadsheets can also be saved and downloaded in a variety of formats:

Comma Separated Value (.csv)

HTML

.ods

.pdf

Microsoft Excel (.xls)

5. you can import existing documents of 500 k or less from your hard drive in the same popular formats mentioned above. the following is information about size limits for documents, images, and spreadsheets from the help pages for the software:

Each document can be up to 500K, plus up to 2MB per embedded image.

Each spreadsheet can be up to 10,000 rows, or up to 256 columns, or up to 50,000 cells, or up to 20 sheets -- whichever limit is reached first.

You can import file sizes up to approximately 1 Mb in .xls or .odf format

6. you can upload and store images - free - to use inside your documents. (see item 5 above for some information and limits). note: i'm sure there must be some total limit (i.e. for all your images combined), as well, but if there is, i haven't found it yet.

7. there is an export wizard for all popular blog interfaces. you can export to a sponsored blog (like this one at blogspot) or to your own blog on your own domain. if you are wanting to export to just one blog, you need only enter the export settings once. if you have multiple blogs, you'll have to change the wizard data for each blog each time.

and - need i say it? you can just create any kind of genealogy document online, collaborate on it online, and then let each collaborator do whatever he or she pleases with it.

you don't have to have to have a blog to find this service useful and easy. and, no, this is not a sponsored plug....

WANT AN EXAMPLE - or TWO?
1. well, i have created a document about my great-grandmother DICA ANN "DICY" (SMITH) GILES using google documents & spreadsheets and am storing it on google's servers. you can view it
| here |

2. i also exported it using the blog export function built into the google docs & spreadsheets interface, and so that same document can be viewed on my tn type.com blog
| here |.

joel hembree and jane dale - roane county 1800 - fatal wedding feast

A narrative about the tragic wedding day of Joel HEMBREE and Jane DALE of Roane County, Tennessee made the front page of The New York Times on 25 Nov 1880. The story was picked up for Edmond Burke's Annual Register in London and published the following year (see below). Although the Roane County in question is likely not Roane County, Tennessee, the HEMBREE surname is connected to many Roane County, Tennessee pioneers. I have been unable to trace either Joel HEMBREE or Jane DALE's ancestors to this point. I am hoping that by posting these name-laden articles that I'll be leaving a bread-crumb trail for someone....

THE FATAL WEDDING FEAST. ARSENIC MISTAKEN FOR SALT--SIX PERSONS DEAD AND OTHERS DYING.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 24.—Further particulars are received here to-night of the terrible poisoning case in Tennessee. The marriage of Joel Hembree and Miss Jane Dale, of Roane County, drew together a large company of their friends and relatives, who belong to the prominent families in the vicinity. The wedding had long been talked of, and was the social event of the year. After ceremony the company was invited the hospitable board of Col. Dale, the bride and bridegroom in the meantime withdrawing. The table was bountifully supplied, and all ate heartily. The evening was spent in festivities. Another supper was served. After the meal, several guests began complaining of illness, but it was laughed off and the gayety continued. About 11 o’clock a sudden lethargy seemed to overtake the whole company and in a few minutes 27 were unconscious. The few who retained consciousness set themselves at work to resusciate their companions, but without avail. Twelve were removed to other houses in the neighborhood and as the news spread, the whole country around was aroused with excitement, as nearly every prominent family had members present at the fatal feast. Such medical aid as could be summoned could give little relief, and two days after the occurrence six of the wedding guests were dead. Robert Dale, the bride’s brother, died next day. Mike May. a relative of the groom, died in a few hours. Albert Gallagher and Miss Mattie Lovelace, well-known young people, died next day. Two young girls, Emma Peters and Kate Lowey, died within 24 hours. Col. Dale and his wife are very low, and their death is momentarily expected.The cause of the tragedy was the use of arsenic instead of salt in seasoning the chickens. Col. Dale purchased a quantity of arsenic a day or two before to kill crows, and carelessly left it in the kitchen. A blundering servant mistook it for salt, and hence the fatal results. Only those who partook of the chicken were poisoned.

-- from The New York Times, 25 Nov 1880, page 1

free online source citation generator - citing sources easily

those doing genealogy research quickly learn that our data is only as good as its source.  keeping track of ways to document all the different items we use as source materials, however, can be a pain - online GEDCOMS, courthouse records, cassette tapes, interviews, newsletters, etc.

even the best genealogy software programs don't readily solve all our sourcing questions. the online citation generator at citationmachine.net is a great adjunct to the sourcing wizards built into most contemporary genealogy programs.
with its online generators, you can figure out how to style just about any source properly - or at least get  a good an idea of how to adapt one to use for that source that's got you stumped.

the generator is actually a series of forms you select from based on what kind of source you have used - print or nonprint. the descriptors are good, and so a form is usually easy to pick. each of them allows you to input your various bits of publication data - eg. publication name, author, editor, compiler, publisher, date, page, book name, periodical name, and so forth; click a button; and voila - get all your bits stitched together, all translated into proper citation format which can then be cut and pasted into your software or into a word processor for further "fancifying."

try it! it's free, free, free....

http://citationmachine.net/

Rockwood and the Roane Iron Company

From tn type's online photo albums

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland : Electronic Edition by Edward King and illustrated by James Wells Champney published in 1875 includes this drawing of Rockwood's Roane Iron Company and a little bit about the early iron industry in Roane County.

The full text is available online | here |. The section on Roane County, Tennessee can easily be located in the document using control f with roane as the search term.

grave registrations for civil war veterans - my submissions

today i submitted information for james calvin "calvin" giles and for david washington montgomery to the following site:

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War: Grave Registration

the submissions are pending review.,
[update:the submissions were accepted & are now available to researchers.

this is a great adjunct site for the national parks civil war soldiers and sailors system databases
| here |.

roane county's wheat community sacrifice

The Wheat Community was the largest of the five local Tennessee communities (Wheat, Robertsville, Elza, Scarboro, and New Hope) displaced in 1942 and early 1943 to make way for the huge Oak Ridge Manhattan Project complex.

the above information appears in a brief article about roane county, tennessee's sacrifice to the world war II oak ridge project was recently published in the oak ridger [online] | here |.

roane co tn genealogy research - don't miss the carnegie library in harriman

if you are ever in roane county, tennessee doing genealogy research, i suggest that you stop in at harriman's public library. though its genealogy secetion is small, it's still a good place to look for local information and to see one of our nation's carnegie libraries in what must be very close to its original form. a few contemporary photographs and a brief history of harriman, tennessee's historic carnegie library are available online at the library's site.

From Harriman, Roa...

the building is located on walden street, separated from another of harriman's early important buildings - the american temperance building - only by harriman's busy firestation.

Revolutionary soldier David Montgomery's descendants subject of new blog

Traditional history says that cousins Martha & John (Sr) MONTGOMERY married aboard ship while migrating from Ireland to PA where they first settled. About 1770, most of their family moved to Mecklenburg Co, NC. From there, their son David MONTGOMERY (W4039)served in the Revolutionary War before moving to Burke Co, NC and marrying Margaret ALLEN. Their son Allen MONTGOMERY married Susannah LARGENT and settled in Cherokee, NC. Several of their children.... Well, read these pages.

and now, you can - a new MONTGOMERY Genealogy blog has been born.

christmas in august rockwood tennessee style

 



on the first weekend of december every year, many rockwood, tn residents open the doors of their homes to visitors for the rockwood christmas tour of historic homes. i've heard about it for a couple of years, and since the moment i heard, i've been telling myself that i need to make my roane county visits coincide with it - at least once. until her sudden death last year, a distant cousin, sara grasham mee, was one of the tour's organizers. in doing a search on my ellis family today, i came across a wonderful set of pages that let me remember sara and let me tour some of rockwood's homes any time i want. they're all part of a site called rockwood 2000+ :

• an introduction to the tours which explains what they're all about is here


• on that page, too,is a photo of my cousin sara (in red, on the left)


• part of a news release for the 2005 tour was a tribute to sara link


• photos of the homes that were featured last year are here


• the photos for the 2004 tour include many indoor shots and give, i think, a better flavor of the kind of celebration the tour really is. the 2004 pages can be accessed here

♥ and maybe my two favorite albums - because i feel like i'm walking around rockwood - are here and here [this last one is a two-page pdf brochure with a walking tour of the town.♥

free tennessee civil war resource booklet as a download

environs of knoxville seen from south bank of tennessee river, east tennessee university in middle distance - knoxville, tennessee: photo compliments of the us library of congress, american memory collection

on a trip home to harriman, tn, a couple of weeks ago, we stopped as we always do at the tennessee state line visitor's bureau to check the brochures and maps available this fall. this stop, we got a gem: a path divided, tennessee's civil war heritage trail, written by dr. wayne c moore of the tennessee state library and archives and published by the tennessee wars commission. the glossy 47-page booklet outlines not only tennessee's major battles but the state's role in the confederacy. it contains concise background histories, battle summaries, timelines, and a fold-out map.

some good news is that i've just discovered that the entire booklet is available online for download.

this is a terrific resource for tennessee genealogists.

though brief, the booklet offers insight and leads for those of us researching individuals and families whose history includes tennessee and the civil war era. the booklet's brevity is actually one of its major strengths. it can be read in its entirety in one sitting. it is well organized: a historical prologue is followed by sections on the state's invasion by river; the fight for west tennessee; the contest for middle tennessee; and east tennessee's mountian war. it is highly readable without being condescending.

i love that now i can have an electronic copy handy on my hard drive for instant reference.

the free electronic version (a pdf file) can be downloaded from here .

and if you're in a civil war sort of mood today, check out the civil war preservation trust mentioned in the booklet. a link to the preservation trust website is here |.

tennessee county formation maps for census work

tennessee county formation maps and formation information - helpful for census and migration use - can be found as ani-maps online | here |

with the map on this page, you can follow a county year to year with three different kinds of county outline maps:

1. plain outline maps can be shown with changing boundaries for each county from census to census. roane county was established in 1803 and can be followed from 1810 forward, for instance.

2. outline maps of any census year with an outline map of the county during the previous census as an overlay, permitting you to see additions or subtractions to the boundaries.

3. outline maps of any census year with an outline map of the county during the next census as an overlay, permitting you to see future additions or subtractions to the county's boundaries (similar to #2 above). click on 1840 map, for instance, to see the changes in roane county's boundaries between the 1840 and 1850 censuses.

near the bottom of the page, there's a quick recap of census information for tennessee - which federal censuses are available - which years and which counties.

roane co tn district chart - tool for census work

roane county, tennessee district chart
genealogy tool for census work

links to rootsweb, usgenweb, and personal pages with
free roane co, tn census | here | [on my own rootweb site]

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Old District Number New District Number
1 - 1st                           3 - 3rd
2 - 2nd                    3 - 3rd
3 - 3rd                           2 - 2nd
4 - 4th                           2 - 2nd
5 - 5th                           2 - 2nd
6 - 6th                    5 - 5th
7 - 7th                           4 - 4th
8 - 8th                           4 - 4th
9 - 9th                           4 - 4th
10 - 10th                   4 - 4th
11 - 11th                   4 - 4th
12 - 12th                   5 - 5th
13 - 13th                   5 - 5th
14 - 14th                   2 - 2nd
15 - 15th                   2 - 2nd
16 - 16th                   1 - 1st
17 - 17th                   4 - 4th

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1st - First District............ Harriman
2nd - Second District.........Oliver Springs
3rd - Third District.......... Kingston
4th - Fourth District......... Fairview, Midway, & Paint Rock
5th - Fifth District........... Rockwood

source: author unknown. extracted from unattributed wall chart in the rockwood city library genealogy room,
rockwood, roane co, tn., aug 2004

update to roane county tennessee obituary links page

the roane county, tennessee area obituary links page here in genielinks - "obsessed with the dead" - is mostly still current. a couple of the links are outdated, however, so you'll want to update your bookmarks for the following:

• current obituaries in the daily post athenian (online - mc minn & meigs counties) are | here |



• the crossville chronicle obituary archives can be searched | here |
  
  the chronicles obituary archives link has changed and is now | here |

the look of the day your ancestor died - the u.s. navy just might help you

"Pa said he was shooting at some pigs"... from the court testimony of frank ellis, 11 year-old son of charles d. ellis
Photo copyright 2006 D Giles Loiselle

the u.s. naval observatory has several interactive tools online, some of which can be handy, if not imperative, for genealogists. one of my personal favorites is the rise/set/transit/twilight data calculator | here |. using it, i am able to get a sense of how much light the might have been left when my great-grandfather, charles david ellis, was shot and killed in an altercation over pigs in a cornfield.

because trial papers tell me it was near 6 p.m. and because i know the location of his death, i am able use the calculator to determine that he likely died a little more than half an hour before sunset that early september evening in arkansas.

if i were more astronomically savvy, i could also use the sun or moon altitude/azimtuth tables to get a better picture of the lighting at the edge of the cornfield. but exactly what does it mean that the sun was 7.7 and had an azimuth of 273.5 east of north at 6 p.m.? (see the same page | here |.) is it possible that a low sun was in his eyes? i know he fell with his head to the west.

so, hey, if you can help me better visualize what happened with the help of the altitude and azimuth information, why don't you let me hear from you, okay?

charles ellis' family data is | here |.

early giles marriages tennessee

at the main tn type site, i recently posted most of the early GILES marriages in tennessee that i have collected in the course of my research. you can view them | here |. please remember that the list is incomplete and is meant to be used for research leads and personal, noncommercial use only.

wilson's creek national battlefield gets more records

margaret newport of rhea co, tn's first husband was william c. underwood, csa, who was killed in missouri on 10 aug 1861 at the battle of oak creek, now called the battle of wilson's creek. her brother asa newport was wounded that day in battle and died of typhoid a few days later.

my family had others in missouri during the war, and some recent news from the wilson's creek battlefield gives me hope that i can learn more about them:

a donation to the hulston library at wilson's creek battlefield of almost 1000 reels of nara compiled service records fills out that library's microfilm collection of detailed service history for civil war soldiers from missouri and surrounding states.

the microfilms can be viewed at the library. for me, the really good news is that currently staff members are answering informational requests via e-mail!

(source: ozarks daily planner, "civil war microfilm," 23 jun 2006, part of news-leader.com. accessed 24 jun 2006.)

morgan co, tn genealogy research helps

morgan county, tennessee's tngenweb - like genielinks ;-) - has a page of useful genealogy research helps for east tennessee genealogists | here |.

the list includes links to items like the following:

• roane county, tennesse tax lists for 1814-1817 (morgan co was part of roane then)
  
• tn courthouse fires & lost records
• tn pension roll of 1835
• 1840 census of pensioners
• first families of tennessee
• & more....

i especially like their short but sweet list of definitions for words found in old deeds | here |

fact sheet - genealogy roane co, tn

the tennessee state library and archives keeps a genealogy help page for each tennessee county. in addition to highlighting the county's location on an outline map of the state and giving the name of the county seat and foundation information, the pages contain the following useful information - most in easy to locate list form:

• the years in which census records are available for the county
• selected county histories
• a link to the archives' bibliography of local history sources
• a list of published local records (including those published on microfilm)
• county newspapers on microfilm at the archives
• selected manuscripts regarding the county
• indications of records available from the archives on interlibrary loan

roane county's history & genealogy fact sheet at the tennessee state library and archives can be accessed  | here |

roane county, tennesse genealogy records - document photos of primary materials

in addition to creating web photo albums for the delozier cemetery and the bethel cemetery in roane county, tn today, i have also begun an album that has photographs and/or scans of some of my primary source records which county genealogists can download for their personal, noncommercial use (see copyright notices in my albums). the permanent link to this tn type picasaweb album is http://picasaweb.google.com/
TnType/DelozierCemeteryEmoryGapRoaneCoTennessee

the album name is roane county, tennessee genealogy sources

the initial postings to the album follow:

• French HAGGARD 1848-1918, Death Certificate
• Jane HAGGARD (nee GILLILAND) - Roane Co, TN documentation showing she was the daughter of Robert GILLILAND
• 1890 Roane County, Tn marriage license for James MAJORS and Rachel MONTGOMERY

delozier cemetery, emory gap, roane co, tn - photo album

i've uploaded a tn type album of the delozier cemetery located in emory gap, roane county, tennessee to my picasaweb public genealogy photo gallery.

bethel cemetery, kingston, roane county, tennessee - photo album

google's free picasa photo software now has a web album generator that will upload member photos directly to picasaweb.google.com. i have just uploaded a small album of photos taken at the bethel historic cemetery in kingston, tn to a new Tn Type site there. you can always check all of my public TnType picasaweb albums by using the link http://picasaweb.google.com/TnType. any of the photos posted in my public gallery may be downloaded for personal, noncommercial use in your genealogy research. find my bethel cemetery album | here | .

lots of copies keep stuff safe

maneuvering across the shifting sands of records accessibility laws can easily frustrate the family genealogist.

this decade's stringent homeland security laws saw many of us cringe as even records publicly accessible for years were put under wraps to comply with new laws. we also discovered that we weren't the only ones practicing an increasing sensitivity to the risk of identity theft by putting family information online. as a result, those of us who already believed that a good family historian can never have too much documentation have revved up our storage mania and become bigger packrats than ever. i know that my own appreciation for those who willingly share vital family information with me has grown exponentially in the last three or four years. I'm just about ready to offer up a special daily prayer of thanks to contributors to genforum and rootsweb message boards and to (the thankfully-still-free) worldconnect.

today, i read a stanford university report of june 14, that the the library of congress has awarded the university funds toward a collaborative inititiative to preserve digital records for future generations. the initiative relies heavily on lockss (lots of copies keep stuff safe) and clockss (controlled lockss), technologies and programs designed to make certain that digital libraries' contents don't get lost or destroyed because of reliance on one centrally-administered repository.

genealogy researchers who have lost research due to failures in backing up their digital work on a home computer; those of us who have searched diligently for records only to discover that they were destroyed in a courthouse fire; or those of us who bemoan the hoops we have to jump through to get vital records information [ see one blog's take | here | ] because of homeland security laws or identity theft these days may certainly appreciate the lots of copies keep stuff safe mentality.

something to ponder from the lockss site:

Seven million pages of new information are added to the world-wide-web each day.... [A]cademic libraries are faced with the urgent problem of creating online collections with the staying power of traditional hardcopy books and journals. Information stored on paper can survive for millennia; information stored digitally today may not be recoverable next week.

and there, too, from thomas jefferson:

...let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident." In Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, Addresses, Letters, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Library of America 1984.

[Sources: (1) Stanford Report, "Money granted for digital preservationn," June 14, 2006, http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/j Accessed 16 Jun 2006. (2) Home - LOCKSS. "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe," http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home Acessed 16 June 2006]

bean cemetery at whites creek, rhea county, tennessee

i have just published a photo album of the bean community cemetery at white's creek in rhea co, tn. through the album you can access photos, family notes, transcripts, and mapping. it's available on my companion rootsweb site | here |.

(note that the 1930s wpa survey of this cemetery called it the kirkland cemetery. locals say, however, that this always been the bean cem,ketery.)

roane co, tn cemetery listings, photos, and transcripts

view roane county, tennessee cemetery photo albums, and transcriptions i have posted on companion pages of this blog (always free access!)


here on my rootsweb pages


and

here on Tn Type, a companion blog to this one

some surnames in the albums: giles, ellis, mcpherson, brashear, haggard, majors, phillips, morgan, kurtz, brandon, montgomery, and more....


check the links often for new additions...

update:you can also view tn type's public picasaweb roane county, tennessee cemetery albums | here |

gold bug place finder and mapper online is a gold mine

gold bug, the makers of animap now offer a terrific online place locating service which can map its results to google maps. it's called site finder, and is located | here |.

a description of this new free genealogy tool on company's home page concisely lays out a number of uses for the researcher:

SiteFinder Online lets you search for towns, cemeteries, schools, courthouses (and more) and plot them onto Google Maps where you can zoom in & out or overlay the SiteFinder locations onto satellite images of area you are studying. You can plot multiple items at once, or search for your exact point of interest. [source: Gold Bug, http://www.goldbug.com, accessed 9 jun 2006]

GILES family surname at Rootsweb

A research tool for looking up GILES family surnames can be found | here | . From this one page, you can locate  the following:

• Personal Websites at Rootsweb that focus on the GILES surname
  
• WorldConnect Family Trees that have the GILES surname
• Social Security Death Index entries for individuals with the GILES surname
• Messages in the GILES surname mailing list
• Primary records for GILES family members in the RootsWeb or USGENWEB archives

There is also a link to a GILES calendar at Rootsweb that lets you add upcoming GILES surname events.

gravesite information about some GILES veterans

information about the following individuals with GILES surnames comes from the nationwide gravesite locator sponsored by the department of veterans affairs:


GILES, CHARLES C
SSGT US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/02/1917
DATE OF DEATH: 07/02/1980
BURIED AT: SECTION D SITE 6921
KNOXVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
939 TYSON STREET, N.W. KNOXVILLE, TN 37917
(423) 855-6590
GILES, GENEVIEVE M
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/29/1917
DATE OF DEATH: 02/01/1964
BURIED AT: SECTION D SITE 6921
KNOXVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
939 TYSON STREET, N.W. KNOXVILLE, TN 37917
(423) 855-6590
WIFE OF GILES, CHARLES C
SFC PUB TRNG AIDS CT US ARMY
[nee GILES] AYOTTE, SUDIE E
DATE OF BIRTH: 09/12/1906
DATE OF DEATH: 04/17/1979
BURIED AT: SECTION B SITE 5745
KNOXVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
939 TYSON STREET, N.W. KNOXVILLE, TN 37917
(423) 855-6590
WIFE OF AYOTTE, LEO
US ARMY
GILES, MOSES
T5 US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/06/1918
DATE OF DEATH: 07/10/1950
BURIED AT: SECTION C SITE 3409A
KNOXVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
939 TYSON STREET, N.W. KNOXVILLE, TN 37917
(423) 855-6590
GILES, WILLIAM EDGAR
PVT 6TH USMC 2ND DIV US MARINE CORPS
WORLD WAR I
DATE OF DEATH: 04/18/1918
BURIED AT: SECTION B SITE 3713
KNOXVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
939 TYSON STREET, N.W. KNOXVILLE, TN 37917
(423) 855-6590
GILES, ALLIE E
US MARINE CORPS
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 07/05/1925
DATE OF DEATH: 02/04/2000
BURIED AT:
SPRING CITY CEMETERY
SPRING CITY, TN 37381
GILES, C H
INFANTRY
CIVIL WAR
BURIED AT: SECTION P SITE 5990
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, CARRA
MM1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR I
DATE OF BIRTH: 07/27/1887
DATE OF DEATH: 03/31/1978
BURIED AT: SECTION W SITE 692
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, EDWARD JR
PFC US MARINE CORPS
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/17/1919
DATE OF DEATH: 10/23/1991
BURIED AT: SECTION RR SITE 400
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, ELIZABETH B
DATE OF BIRTH: 09/23/1915
DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/1988
BURIED AT: SECTION SS SITE 291
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
WIFE OF GILES, ROBERT H JR
LT US NAVY
GILES, LARRY D JR
DATE OF BIRTH: 01/26/1953
DATE OF DEATH: 11/25/1996
BURIED AT: SECTION DDD SITE 267
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
ADULT DEPENDENT SON OF GILES, LARRY D SR
SSGT US ARMY AIR FORCES
GILES, LARRY D SR
SSGT US ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/21/1921
DATE OF DEATH: 06/14/2001
BURIED AT: SECTION DDD SITE 267
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, OLLIE ENLO JR
SP4 US ARMY
VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 04/15/1940
DATE OF DEATH: 07/21/2004
BURIED AT: SECTION ZZ SITE 275
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, OSCAR WILLIAM
PFC US ARMY
KOREA
DATE OF BIRTH: 02/25/1934
DATE OF DEATH: 07/31/2003
BURIED AT: SECTION DD-2 SITE 669
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, RICHARD
PVT INFANTRY
DATE OF DEATH: 11/23/1896
BURIED AT: SECTION Q SITE 13107
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, W IRWIN
SGT INFANTRY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 08/29/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION F SITE 1978
CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY
1200 BAILEY AVENUE CHATTANOOGA, TN 37404
(423) 855-6590
GILES, BESSIE MAE
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/12/1927
DATE OF DEATH: 02/11/1977
BURIED AT: SECTION M SITE 2426
MEMPHIS NATIONAL CEMETERY
3568 TOWNES AVENUE MEMPHIS, TN 38122
(901) 386-8311
WIFE OF GILES, WALLACE
PVT US ARMY
GILES, ANDREW D
PFC US ARMY
KOREA
DATE OF BIRTH: 11/26/1932
DATE OF DEATH: 01/17/1986
BURIED AT: SECTION Y SITE 349
NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
1420 GALLATIN ROAD, SOUTH MADISON, TN 37115
(615) 860-0086
GILES, CHARLEY JR
CPL US ARMY
WORLD WAR I
DATE OF BIRTH: 11/30/1887
DATE OF DEATH: 04/17/1958
BURIED AT: SECTION AA SITE 17453
NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
1420 GALLATIN ROAD, SOUTH MADISON, TN 37115
(615) 860-0086
GILES, HORACE R
SSGT US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 02/09/1921
DATE OF DEATH: 10/20/1985
BURIED AT: SECTION DD SITE 56
NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
1420 GALLATIN ROAD, SOUTH MADISON, TN 37115
(615) 860-0086
GILES, JAMES H
FN US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 11/05/1927
DATE OF DEATH: 11/25/1989
BURIED AT: SECTION MM SITE 440
NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
1420 GALLATIN ROAD, SOUTH MADISON, TN 37115
(615) 860-0086
GILES, JOHN EDWARD
S2C US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 03/01/1926
DATE OF DEATH: 03/02/1989
BURIED AT: SECTION QQ SITE 44
NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
1420 GALLATIN ROAD, SOUTH MADISON, TN 37115
(615) 860-0086
GILES, JUANITA
DATE OF BIRTH: 11/29/1927
DATE OF DEATH: 08/25/1998
BURIED AT: SECTION Y SITE 348
NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY
1420 GALLATIN ROAD, SOUTH MADISON, TN 37115
(615) 860-0086
WIFE OF GILES, ANDREW D
PFC US ARMY
GILES, JAMES C
D 89 OHIO INF
BURIED AT: SITE 85
STONES RIVER NATL. BATTLEFIELD
3501 OLD NASHVILLE HWY MURFREESBORO, TN 37130
(615) 893-9501
GILES, JAMES D Sr
US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 11/06/1922
DATE OF DEATH: 02/24/2002
BURIED AT:
WOODLAWN CEMETERY
4500 WOODLAWN PIKE KNOXVILLE, TN 37920
(865) 577-7900

byu has brashear family volume and other texts free online

the family history archive in brigham young's library system includes a large collection of digitalized texts (in pdf format) that can be viewed free online and printed out by endusers. a direct link to the electronic archives search engine is | here |. a full text search is available, but narrowing your search, if possible, is the best approach.

the collection can also be browsed | here |. today there are 4726 texts in the browsing list.

the volumes available include charles brashear and shirley brasher mc coy's A Brazier/Brasher saga : 300 years of the Brasher/Brazier/Brashier/Brasier family in America published by them in 1998.

this is another terrific electronic resource from the family history center.

temporary free genealogical database access at NEHGS

from Legacy News:
Free non-member access to the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register will be available online from Monday, March 20 to Wednesday, March 22. This database includes the Register's issues from 1847 to 1994.

Margaret Abbey Giles Bennecker died 3 Mar 2006

Margaret's obituary (with a photograph) has been published by the Kyker Funeral Home in Harriman, Roane Co, TN, on their website | here |. More information about her and a 2004 photo can be found on the tn type blog |here |.