This week's famous cousin is Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (1957-living), the famous singer and TV host.  And he was a big hit at RootsTech years ago!!! Here is the Wikipedia biography: Donald Clark Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American singer, dancer, actor, television host and former teen idol. He first gained fame performing with four of his elder brothers as the Osmonds, earning several top ten hits and gold albums. Then, in the early 1970s, Osmond began a solo career, earning several additional top ten songs. He further gained fame due to the success of the 1976–19 ..read more

  It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings. The treasure today is the 1825 Burial entry for John Hill in the Hilperton, Wiltshire parish records: The burial entry is the first entry in the 1825 list: The transcription of this record is:: "1825.  John Hill, Hilperton, 13'th Jan'y 1825.  59 years, J. Bailes, Curate" The source citation for this record is (using Evidence Explained 4th edition template): Hilpert ..read more

  Welcome to Genealogy Education Bytes, posted on Wednesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history education items that came across our desktop since the last issue. 1) Upcoming Conferences, Institutes and Seminars * Conference Keeper Calendar *  APG Seeking Presentations for the 2024 Professional Management Conference -- Deadline 21 April 2024 *  2024 National Genealogical Society (NGS) Virtual Family History Conference ($$)  - Virtual -  "Expanding Possibilities ..read more

I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite and most priceless family  photographs:  The people in this screen capture from a home movie are (from the left): *  Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977), my maternal grandmother. *  Stanley Richmond Seaver (1946-living), my brother (Held by Emily) *  Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952), my great-grandmother *  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), my maternal grandfather *  Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living), moi. This home movie was taken in 1947, perhaps on Stan's first birthday ..read more

I have found more of my memoirs that I wrote after some of our summer vacations, and many of them included genealogy highlights. So I'm going to share these memories in a series of posts.  Maybe I'll even find some photos to illustrate the posts.    Mia and Anne were our foreign exchange students from Finland in 1994.  We had a marvelous time getting to know them and enjoying their company.  Our daughter Tami had a car and they were able to go all over San Diego (and we all went to Los Angeles one time) and enjoy a three-week summer vacation.  Mia's family in Torn ..read more

 Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news  items that came across our desktop since the last issue.     1)  News Articles: *  Ready, set, scan: National Archives to digitize 500M records by 2026 *  Steve Rockwood at RootsTech 2024—Legos and the Importance of Remembering *  [MyHeritage] Celebrate the Heroes in Your Family This Anzac Day *  [MyHeritage] Explore the Depths of Naval History in Stunning In ..read more

 Here is this week's edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database. This week's entry is from the The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper dated Monday, 17 April 1978, page 36, Column 7: The transcription of the article is: "SEAVER -- In Holbrook, formerly of Dorchester, April 16, Clayton F., devoted husband of Marilyn (Smith) Seaver, of 46 Roseway, loving father of Clayton F. Seaver, Jr. of Dorch ..read more

 I received this information from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today: ==================================== I’m excited to share that in honor of Anzac Day, all 130 million historical records from Australia and New Zealand on MyHeritage will be free to access from April 23–28, 2024. Over the past year, we've expanded our collection to include a vast array of historical newspapers. This new collection comprises over 24 million pages from 1,705 newspaper titles, covering every state and territory in Australia. We also host many essential military collections, including the esteemed Anzac ..read more

   Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.   1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) DNA Interest Group Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday.  Reported on new 23andMe aplogroup assignments, AutoLineage by Genetic Affairs, MyHeritageDNA collaboration, WATO+ tool, SDGS DNA group, and the AncestryDNA match table maker. 2)  Watched several Family Tree Webinars - 10 Ways AI Can Help You Find Your Elusive Ancestors by Lisa Alzo; Artificial Intelligence & Family Hi ..read more

This week's document for transcription is the 1891 will of Abby Seaver (1816-1891) of Carbondale,  Jackson County, Illinois in the Jackson County, Illinois probate case files. *  Jackson County, Illinois Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, No. 2155-2181, Case 2175, image 1389 of 1998: *  Jackson County, Illinois Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, No. 2155-2181, Case 2175, image 1390 of 1998: *  Jackson County, Illinois Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, No. 2155-2181, Case 2175, image 1391 of 1998: The transcription of this document ..read more