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1963 The Blue Jay

Yadkin County North Carolina High School Yearbooks

A collection of over 50 high school yearbooks has been featured by AccessGenealogy. Covering the county of Yadkin in North Carolina, these yearbooks include the high schools of Boonville, Courtney, East Bend, Jonesville, West Yadkin, and Yadkinville. They cover the communities of Boonville, East Bend, Hamptonville, Jonesville and Yadkinville. The earliest published yearbook is a 1948 West Yadkin Yearbook called the Whispering Pines, and the latest published yearbook is a 1967 East Bend High School Yearbook called the Cats Paw. Boonville High School Yearbooks, Boonville North Carolina Courtney High School Yearbooks, Yadkinville North Carolina East Bend High School Yearbooks, East …

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Oklahoma Cemetery Records

New Oklahoma Cemeteries Online

Continuing with building new directories of Oklahoma Cemeteries online, AccessGenealogy recently added 5 new cemetery record pages for counties in Oklahoma, providing the most complete online index of available cemetery records for the following counties: Creek, Custer, Delaware, Dewey, and Ellis counties. 410 new links were added to the AccessGenealogy website through these new pages. They currently have 286,170 genealogy links on their website with only 274 reporting as bad links (about 200 of those from 2 websites which appear to be having technical issues). Creek County Oklahoma Cemeteries Custer County Oklahoma Cemeteries Delaware County Oklahoma Cemeteries Dewey County Oklahoma …

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Archdiocese of St Louis Cemeteries

Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of St. Louis

Catholic dioceses often operate cemeteries within their jurisdiction. The St. Louis archdiocese operates 17 different cemeteries around and in St. Louis. They provide a burial index on their website which includes complete internment information on 15 of the cemeteries, partial burial information on Glencoe Cemetery, and unfortunately, no burial information on Queen of Peace cemetery (even though the search form enables you to search it). Ancestry has recently added this index to their collection. Users of Ancestry’s Family Trees or FTM may want to use their search, though the results will take you to the Archdiocese website where you will …

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Planting the Seeds

What Constitutes a Reasonably Exhaustive Search?

Certified Genealogist, Michael Hait, in his Planting the Seeds blog, discussed in a recent post his interpretation of what constitutes a reasonably exhaustive search in genealogy. To get the non-certified genealogists (which is most of us) up-to-speed on why this is important, let’s remember that genealogy isn’t just a hobby, it’s a science. Whenever you have a scientific field, there is usually some board which oversees that scientific field of study. That board for the field of genealogy is the Board of Certification of Genealogists or BGC. In attempting to strengthen the actual science behind genealogy research, the BGC created …

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Kinfolk Korner

Kinfolk Korner

Ramblins from the Web. Sometimes I stumble upon older web pages which haven’t been updated in a long while, but still have a treasure trove of genealogy information on them. I will begin to feature these in order that the useful genealogy they possess can be more widely circulated to other interested genealogists. Books And Bibles Cemeteries Washington County, Arkansas Miami County, Kansas Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky Cuyahoga County, Ohio Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma Jenks, Tulsa County Oklahoma Collection The Lyle Ann Shults Collections Creek County Oklahoma Collection Fayette County, Kentucky Tax List – 1788Fayette County was, at that time, …

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