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Looking for a chart on which to enter names, dates, and places from your family tree? These three free genealogy charts are great for printing and framing as last minute gifts, or for collecting information from relatives during holiday get-togethers. Among them you’ll find interactive family tree chart with a pretty tree background that lets you enter the information in right on your computer, and this fancy fan-shaped chart
[...click on headline to read full story] December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Family Tree Chart, Family Tree Charts, Fancy Fan, Framing, Free Download, Free Family Tree, Free Family Tree Charts, Free Genealogy Charts, Grandmother, Interactive Family Tree, Last Minute Gifts, Pretty Tree, Relatives, Roses | Category: Family History, Genealogy |
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 An unusual ceremony has taken place on Vanuatu, a Pacific island 1,090 miles east of northern Australia, when descendants of the Rev. John Williams travelled from the UK, Canada and Botswana to attend a special reconcilliation with the descendants of island natives who killed and ate the missionary on November 20, 1839. Radio Australia reports: Vanuatu villagers whose ancestors killed and ate a Scottish missionary in the 19th century have apologised to the man’s descendants
[...click on headline to read full story] December 19th, 2009 | Tags: ancestor, Anthropologist, Australia Reports, Descendants, Important Place, Island Natives, James Harris, John Williams, Killings, Local Member Of Parliament, Member Of Parliament, Missionary, New Hebrides, Northern Australia, Play Button, Presbyterian, Radio Australia, Reconcilliation, Rev John, Reverend John | Category: Family History |
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 John Heron (L), Secretary of the Friends of the DLI group receives the medals from John Close Medals steeped in North East history are set to stay in the region thanks to the generosity and community spirit of a local man. Keen eyed John Close noticed medals, once owned by Stockton born Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Cohen, were up for sale at a local auction and not wanting the medals to disappear from the area, decided to place a telephone bid for them. Also keen to retain the medals, the Friends of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) Museum placed bids but quickly got the impression the telephone bidder would stop at nothing and withdrew. Mr Close successfully bid almost £2,000 for the medals. John Heron, Secretary of the Friends of the DLI group and a retired Lieutenant Colonel himself, said: “It is an astonishingly generous donation from a man who is not related to Lieutenant Colonel Cohen or a soldier himself, he is a concerned member of the community who thought part of its commemorative history would be lost.” Continue reading Community spirit saves medals December 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Carinthia, Commemorative History, Community Spirit, Cpm, Durham County Council, Durham Light Infantry, East History, Family Connections, Friends of the Durham Light Infantry, Generosity, Generous Donation, Heron, John Heron, Leslie Cohen, Lieutenant Colonel, Lt Colonel, Medals, Nathan Leslie, Obe, stockton, Territorial Army, Ww | Category: Local History |
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