tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91287712012-01-27T07:54:19.354-05:00genealogy links and notes of current interest to any and all of my family history research. main geographical locations: tennessee (roane co, rhea co, hamilton co, meigs co, monroe co); wisconsin (chippewa co, sheboygan co; maryland (kent co, prince george's co). major surnames: giles, majors, ellis, phillips, haggard, montgomery, mcpherson, newport, brashear/s, gilliland, sarratt, loiselle, chapman, roberts, robertson, rackowtn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.comBlogger691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-36639452755743138182007-09-15T12:19:00.000-04:002007-09-15T18:21:30.535-04:00

If you are befuddled by all those "rss" and "Subscribe to my feed" buttons, you need first to view the new free Utube video about using feed readers - | here |; and second, you need a good feed reader. I personally use and love Google's web-accessible, easy-to-use Google READER which has just added the capability to search across all the feeds I am subscribed to. Read about it in Google's

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Today is the first time I've read about Tennessee's Century Farm Program in existence since 1975. It honors Tennessee farm families who earn at least $1000 a year in revenue from a farm their family has owned continuously for 100 years or more with at least ten remaining acres belonging to its original owner. First managed by the state's Department of Agriculture, in 1985, the program was turned

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for a number of reasons, i have spread myself and my TnType pages all over the web. what follows is an annotated list of my sites and a little description of what is available at each one. though i try to connect my sites using sidebar menus and such, my family suggested that i put all the links on one central page, so here goes (and i hope you find it useful - especially for your roane co, tn

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I've posted my current research notes on Roane County, Tennessee pioneer Robert GILLILAND (son-in-law of Robert Samuel BRASHEAR/BRASHEARS) at my googlepages site, roane county genealogy - roane county, tennessee kin & kith. He and his wife Mary "Polly" BRASHEAR settled in the future Roane County Sugar Grove Valley area when others of Robert S. BRASHEAR's family members did.(For more information

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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

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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

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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

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From tn type's online photo albumsThe 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

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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 Registrationthe 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 |.

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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

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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

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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

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 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

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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 collectionon 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,

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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

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roane county, tennessee district chartgenealogy tool for census worklinks to rootsweb, usgenweb, and personal pages withfree roane co, tn census | here | [on my own rootweb site]Old District Number New District Number1 - 1st 3 - 3rd2 - 2nd 3 - 3rd3 - 3rd 2 - 2nd4 - 4th 2 - 2nd5 - 5th

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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 recordstn pension roll of 18351840 census of pensionersfirst families of tennessee& more...

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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

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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://

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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.

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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

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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

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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.)

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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 pagesandhere on Tn Type, a companion blog to this onesome 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:

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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

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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 surnameWorldConnect Family Trees that have the GILES surnameSocial Security Death Index entries for individuals with the GILES surnameMessages in the GILES surname mailing listPrimary records for GILES family members

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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) 855-6590GILES, GENEVIEVE M DATE

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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

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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.

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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 |.

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the public library in kingston, roane co, tn has a great set of pages with photos outlining the history of roane co, tn in the civil war era |here |.as part of the site, they also have a downloadable file of roane county confederate soldiers | here | and federal soldiers | here |. though one ancestor, francis m. majors, is not listed in the file even though he is indexed as a roane county soldier

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the federal government is endangering your genealogy research again, and you really should act...soon! i've copied an e-mail call to action which begins to spell out what is happening and where you can go to read more and to begin to act (below). if you're hestating, think about whether or not you did enough to protest the current law which overly restricts distribution of vital records and

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there is small picture of genevieve majors and charles calvin giles (from a photo taken about 1934), and a link to an individual summary sheet for charles | here |.

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i just posted the following military record: mack majors, age 24 625 clifty street harriman, roane co, tn WWI miltary draft registration card and information   a photograph of mack majors circa 1956 the record is | here |

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tennessee civil war battles by state the us national park service maintains some great web pages for the 38 tennessee civil war battles listed below. the pages, with descriptions of each battle, its major particpants, casualty counts, etc. can be accessed | here |. * Bean's Station * Blountsville * Blue Springs * Brentwood * Bull's Gap * Campbell's Station *

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handy list of dates for genealogists researching roane co, tn records can be found on my companion tn type blog. the page is | here |.

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the index and transcriptions of the 1860 census for roane county, tennessee are a free resource at usgneweb. thanks so much to don robbins for this great work.

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nasa world wind harriman, tn screen shot 2, usgs topo

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nasa world wind and harriman, roane co, tn screen shot 1

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this morning, between bagel bites, i downloaded the most wonderful new genealogy tool. and it's free. totally free.i'm in love. i'm in love. and i've only used it for five minutes!nasa world wind software (beta release 1.3) is incredible, and i only know a tiny fraction of what it may be able to show me. here is what i do know these first minutes: i typed in harriman, tn on the place finder and

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tennessee newspaper project catalog search pagethis is a wonderful resource for finding out who holds copies of local (historical) newpapers.a key word search will give you the locations of the institutions holding historic newspapers as well as the dates and format of those holdings. using the key word, harriman, got the following list of results for harriman, tn papers (i have removed call

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the first three numbers of a social security number can tell you from which state they were issued. the foia page lists the prefixes and their states.social security online - freedom of information act information

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the budding immigrant ancestors project at brigham young university has several dandy genealogy helpers online, one of which is a multilingual pdf list of occupations. the list is 11 pages long! also on the site at http://immigrants.byu.edu are a couple of handwritten alphabet lists, a towns list, and a script tutorial.

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harriman at google maps - try it! what is so neat is that the map is navigable by holding down the right button on your mouse and sliding it in the direction you'd like. zoom features and other navigation aids show up as a small tool on the left side of the screen, and map re-draws (at least on my computer) were very fast. i love it!

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an from the tullahoma news |here | gives a brief history of the tennessee state flag which is will officially celebrate its centennial anniversary on 17 april. the flag was first flown in johnson city and then in harriman.

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how to plot your ancestor's deeds - a nifty online tutorial at bob franks' southern roots site.

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genseeker rootsweb site search page:

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i just posted a 61 page photo album of the brashear family cemetery, sugar grove valley, roane county, tennessee at one of my companion sites. it joins the photo albums of other roane county cemeteries that i've posted on my rootsweb site.here's an index of the descriptions:the elmer & linda edwards home - built on top of brashears ruins. the cemetery is behind this house.sign on edwards house

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tennessee data links at genealogybuff.com contain links to roane co obituaries.

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civil war battlefield in knoxville on most endangered list | here |

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here's a link to information about giles and ayotte family members buried in the knoxville national cemetery - knox county, tennessee.

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there's an article in today's roane county newsonline that mentions a jay jiles. at this time, i don't know whether or not he is related to my giles line. here's the text the paragraph mentioning jiles: : Jay Jiles was honored for his military career. Jiles served in the army from 1941 to 1945 and for his work he earned a Good Conduct Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal, a Bronze Star and many

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listings of tennessee newspaper links from the opera portal:

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US Census Bureau data for : Harriman, TN (city), 1990 Population (1990): 7119 Location: 35.93336 N, 84.56168 W Zip Code(s): 37748 37854 Tiger Map of area | here | The 2000 Census statistical abstract for the city of Harriman (Roane County, Tennessee) can be downloaded as a pdf file from the US Census Bureau | here |.

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i'm fond of two nifty timeline-generating sites. the first service - provided by teach-nology.com - is the simplest to use and presents the cleanest graphics. enter up to 8 dates (or range of dates) - including approximations and estimates - into your choice of a horizontal or vertical preformatted table, and the site will generate an html page with your timeline all nicely formatted and

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the title says it all. these are specific links for genealogists looking for free information on families from roane county, tennessee. links to available free census data online are posted onsite, too. check out the links to free online resources | here |. while you're at it, you might want to look at the page i concocted to conduct some of my own genealogy searches. it's | here |.

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i've recently updated the pages for the majors family of rhea and roane counties, tn: *ancestry chart - mack majors, 16 feb 1893 - 15 nov 1969, rhea and roane counties, tennessee * descendants of larkin majors - chart - larkin majors, abt 1803-aft1880, tennessee * notes toward a chronology for larkin majors, abt 1803-aft1880 * francis m. majors, private, 43d TN

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tennessee death certificates - tndeathcertificates.com : this site and its services has come highly recommended to me by a number of people. one look at the pricing on the main page shows why. they're much less expensive than the state archives service, and i understand that they respond quickly, too.another good place to order death certificates and other microfilm records has been the cleveland

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the chippewa herald has searchable obituaries from 2 mar 1987 for chippewa county, wisconsin.

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loiselle surname board at rootsweb

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the last will and testament of clara phillips majors, rockwood, roane county, tennessee is now online here.

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rex buttram offers some free genealogy lookups from the source materials he owns:

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dick eastman's newsletter today had two items of interest to me. the first - his promotion of the firefox web browser (and about time). yes! rediscover the web! the second - a review of mike DeBacker's unleGED7, a terrific-sounding program that will generate html pages from ged 5.5 files. what makes the program different from my own beloved legacy deluxe 5 seems to be that uncleGED7 has

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asa newport, 7 oct 1902 - 15 dec 1876, newport cemetery, rhea co, tn (also found in records as the garrison cemetery)Located south of Rockwood, TN, this cemetery may be listed in other sources as the Garrison Cemetery. Edna Clack, another Newport descendant, however, makes a strong argument that this was the Newport family cemetery, located on Newport land, and so should be listed as the "Newport

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david b haggard for roane county sheriff, 2004

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