It really makes one self-aware to organize their 43 things: life list versus 2010 resolutions. In determining the placement on either list, it dictates to the priorities, correct? There is only one thing on my life list: find my biological father. However, on my 2010 resolutions, there are 43 things, as follows:

1. Write a cozy.
2. Find the grave of a childhood friend.
3. Visit Scotland.
4. Start a mystery series.
5. Oil paint a landscape reminiscent of Blue Dog Lake.
6. Complete another NaNoWriMo.
7. Meditate more.
8. Attend Qigong classes more often.
9. Learn how to play hearts.
10. Volunteer more.
11. Live in the moment.
12. Conquer my fears.
13. Laugh more, cry less.
14. Learn Italian.
15. Hiking in Banff, Alberta.
16. Become a better chess player.
17. See my Jyorei healer more often.
18. Continue on my spiritual journey.
19. Be more patient.
20. Stop procrastinating.
21. Declutter.
22. Horseback riding at Abiqui.
23. Ride the Cumbres & Toltec scenic railroad.
24. Take a sailing class at Lake Calhoun.
25. Tent camping in the Rockies.
26. Visit the Finger Lakes.
27. Stay overnight in the Stanley Hotel.
28. Remodel the basement.
29. Visit the Alamo.
30. Practice Japanese speaking more often.
31. Complete my website.
32. Photograph the channeled scablands (former glacial lake Missoula).
33. Canoe the Apostle Islands.
34. Winter camping at the base of Split Rock Lighthouse.
35. Photograph Monument Valley.
36. Tent camp at Lake Powell.
37. Compile a portfolio of the house plans I’ve done.
38. Take a watercolor class with my daughter.
39. Clean out the attic.
40. Visit Sica Hollow.
41. Take flowers to my grandma’s grave.
42. Find a homeless friend from my childhood.
43. Visit Shiloh, Tennessee.

It occurred to me as I made the list, and determined which action to put where, that I must in fact, not be as goal-oriented on finding my paternal ancestry. Otherwise, it would’ve been more of an immediate accomplishment, yes? Similar to what I wrote on the 43 things website: It’s not as much about the WHO as it is the WHERE. I have a deep-seated attachment to memories and visions of land (geologic formations) as opposed to genealogical connections that may not endure the test of time.

Irish Geography Terminology

Counties: There are 32 counties in Ireland.

Barony: A subdivision of a county. There are 331 Baronies in Ireland. A Barony can cross county lines.

Civil Parishes: There are 2508 of them in Ireland and they also do not follow county lines.

Townlands: There are over 60,000 and some have the same names. Despite their name they may not contain towns. People identified closely with their townland or village and they are often the most specific address available for rural dwellers.

Cities, Towns & Boroughs : Cities contain Boroughs and/or wards. Some towns have several parishes and some parishes have several towns!

Poor Law Unions: Also known as Superintendent Registrar’s Districts, there are 163 unions that are independent to any previously set up division in Ireland. Under the Poor Relief Act of 1838, Ireland was divided into unions in which the local taxable inhabitants were to be financially responsible for all paupers in the area. In 1898 the Poor Law Union was adopted as the basic administrative division in place of the civil parish and barony. Further subdivision into 828 registration districts and 3,751 district electoral divisions followed.

Dispensary District: A subdivision of Poor Unions, later known as Registrar’s District.

Archdioceses: There are four of these that are similar to the provinces.

Diocese: 22 dioceses within the four archdioceses.

Parish: Diocese are subdivided into parishes. Civil Parishes and Parishes do NOT always have the same boundaries.

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Originally from: Letters from Linden
Written by: Cori Sedwick Downing
Date: March 2008

Imagine a world four hundred years ago when free practice of your religion was forbidden. Now imagine a mysterious, uncivilized land across the ocean where all things were possible including religious tolerance. To our Puritan forefathers, America must have seemed like an untamed Eden where they could freely practice their religion, unencumbered by the edicts of the Church of England. 

Most of us know about the Puritans who landed at Plymouth rock i 1620 and became the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Less well-known are the Puritans who began settling in Virginia as early as 1611. In fact, many believed the Mayflower set sail for Virginia but landed in Massachusetts either by intent or bad weather. These early Virginia Puritans settled in several areas: Warrosquoyacke ( now the Isle of Wight County) in 1619 under the command of Captain Christopher Lawne, Upper Norfolk ( now Nansemond County ) in 1621 and 1637 under the command of Daniel Gookin, and Bennett’s Creek ( now in Isle of Wight County in 1635 by Richard Bennett, a nephew of a wealthy London merchant, Edward Bennett. The Puritans who settled in these colonies came from overseas and not as emigrants from the New England colony. 

Unfortunately for the Virginia Puritans, by 1648 their governor, William Berkeley made living conditions intolerable and they were forced to look elsewhere to practice their religion and lifestyle. Maryland’s Governor Stone, anxious to attract settlers, encouraged Puritan migration by guaranteeing them free exercise of their religion, local government, and grants to land under Lord Baltimore’s Conditions of Plantation. Lacking options about 300 Virginia Puritans followed to Maryland two of their elders, William Durand and richard Bennett who were banished from  Virginia and had fled to Maryland earlier. Some of the Nansemond Puritans had previously followed Daniel Gookin and his family to New England.

In early 1649 the Nansemond Puritans, who comprised the nucleus of the church, sailed from the James River up the Chesapeake to the mouth of the Severn River, on the opposite shore of what would later become Annapolis and settled on land already granted to Governor Stone. They called their new home, “Providence.” Later these settlers fanned out to unoccupied lands lying along the Chesapeake or its tributaries from Herring Bay ( at the Anne Arundel County/ Calvert County Line) north to the Magothy River (north of the Severn River).

A year later, a wealthy Englishman, Robert Brooke, brought his wife, ten children and twenty-eight servants to a 2,000 acre tract of land on the Patuxent River just south of Battle Creek.  He was also granted another 2,000 acres tract of the opposite shore of the Patuxent in St. Mary’s County which he eventually gave to his eldest son. Brooke, a former Anglican minister, was enticed to immigrate by Lord Baltimore who anointed him “Commander” of a new county Charles County which later became Calvert County.

Meanwhile Puritans who had settled in what would be called Anne Arundel County continued migrating southward into Calvert County along the Upper Cliffs as far as Parker’s Creek. Another group under the leadership of Richard Preston began settling in the lower part of Calvert County. His house, built-in 1651, still stands on the shore of the Patuxent River below St.Leonard’s Creek; was the meeting place of the new Assembly formed in 1652 when the Puritans overthrew the existing government under Governor Stone. This house became the seat of government for the next four years.

For all their influence in the early settlement of the province of Maryland, little remains of the Puritans today in Calvert County and elsewhere. Their principal settlement call Providence returned to its rural roots within five years after the Puritan migration as settlers moved outward to establish their own plantations. In Calvert County, the Puritans were unable to establish any permanent churches and without churches, they had no ministers. Eventually most returned to the Church of England or became Quakers.

First, let’s get our terminology straight.
What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?

* The Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.
* The World Wide Web is a network of interconnected web pages.

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Task Internet Tool
Find Family History Records - World Wide Web
Find unknown relatives - Researcher Web Directories
Communicate with relatives - e-mail
Find people with common interests - e-mail lists, message boards and newsgroups

The Web

With the web, users retrieve web pages from Internet servers. Users control what they get by clicking on links or typing in web addresses. The web pages are displayed by an internet browser such as Internet Explorer.

E-mail

With e-mail, messages are sent between individuals or groups. The sender controls what is sent and who it is sent to.

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The WorldGenWeb Project at worldgenweb.org is dedicated to providing genealogical resources! The GenWeb goal is to have every region in the world represented by a website and hosted by researchers who are familiar with the region. The world is divided into countries, province/states/counties etc. each having web sites identifying genealogy resources.

This one link, worldgenweb.org, provides access to genealogy web sites representing different parts of the world. This is an important source of regional information and often includes links to online databases.

Because the management of GenWeb is distributed to local coordinators, there are great differences between one region and another.

USGenWeb archives search is at www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb.
Information comes from Census records, Church records, Marriages records, Maps, Obituaries, Pension Records, and Special Collections.

The WorldGenWeb Digital Library (Archives) at www.worldgenweb.org/archives was intended to present actual transcriptions of public domain records on the Internet, but has few records and has not been updated since 2001. The USGenWeb and CanadaGenWeb have active archives web sites.

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Finding your long lost family members, friends, Co-workers, or Classmates can sometimes be difficult depending on where you start, and how you search.

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SECOND; Never try to do everything yourself.  You will always need people to help you achieve your goals throughout your life, whether they are small or large.  Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest men in the world, and wouldn’t be where he is today if just a few people didn’t believe in his Microsoft idea years ago before Microsoft was ever born.

THIRD; You must also realize that contacting one person won’t connect you to your long lost loved ones.  Infact, you don’t always reach or get the person you want when you call a person’s house number.  And, most times, lots of funding is required when you’re trying to do everything on your own, and very little is needed when you allow others to help you.  Infact, I found it to be a lot easier doing it this way after creating a profile online in a Social Networking Community and started searching for my long lost family members.  Many of them I would’ve never found without their brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins, husbands, or wives finding me and being connected to them through their own personal profile.  This Social Network Community saved me time and money, paid me during my search, and is now paying me to stay in-touch with my long lost and found family members, friends, co-workers, and classmates.

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I came across this picture at my mom’s house yesterday. Anna Marie Cretens and daughter, Dorothy Lee Cretens. Dorothy is my grandmother and Anna is my great grandmother. (1940s)

Some of us start to research our Family History and already have a head start thanks to a family member who may have written a comprehensive Personal History and has included lots of useful information. However, its more likely that we don’t have this type of information at our disposal and we are, therefore, at a loss. Where do we start? Which websites offer the best information? The Genealogy side to Family History is as important as the stories of our ancestors. It helps set the scene and provides a background to the stories you may have heard. The BBC has a fantastic web site that will help you get started exploring your Family History:

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This web site covers every aspect of the Family History spectrum, from tracing your ancestry to hearing stories and sharing photos.

     It’s funny how we see ourselves in our family.  But though the resemblance is there, we all look unique…unless you’re a twin…or a triplet…or…  But maybe I didn’t phrase that right.  Let me expound.  I was noticing how many of us on my mother’s side have auburn hair.  Most of us have naturally curly hair but only a few got the dark, flamey red tones that dye’s can’t readily duplicate. 

     My grandfather had it and I have no idea where he comes from as he was adopted.  But he passed that red gene on to my mother and through her to me.  He also passed it on through my Aunt Sara to her two daughters.  All of us are tall and solid but lean.  In fact, I am the shortest of us in this generation at 5′9″. 

     We are Amazon stock according to the opinions of an awful lot of people and tend to make a rather noticable entrance into a room.  We are all pale-skinned and have rather sharp, feyish features, long legs and strong but friendly personalities.  I fit in but do not blend in.  Too much of my father’s blood in me for that.

     The women on my father’s side of the family have darker tones.  Most have dark brown or black hair and darker skin.  Most of their eyes vary from dark blue to dark brown.  We have large and intense, almond-shaped eyes and high cheekbones.  Our mannerisms are very much alike, our ways of moving, of talking and of laughing.  It is this side of the family with whom I can most identify. 

     Price women are smaller, quieter but no less intense in either appearance or personality.  There is profound depth in their gazes and they are all more than what they seem.  I do not share their coloring but no one can deny my resemblance.  I fit in but do not blend in.

     I have Price eyes but their dark grey color belongs to me alone on either side of my family.  I am the only one who has gold, jagged lines surrounding the pupil, something my son said looked like an eclipse (I don’t know if he meant it as a compliment but I took it as such).  I am moon pale but the spray of freckles on my face somehow manages to make me look “exotic” rather than “cute” or jovial.  I am tall and slender but not willowy, though I have the capacity to be and have been before.  It makes me marvel sometimes that we can all be so alike and yet so distinctly different.

The weird cauldron of mismatched parts that is me

     …And I don’t know who in the family is responsible for “the look” – I am, of course, referring to the one that got me into trouble numerous times as a child whilst being completely unaware of it’s presence.  The same “look” that made me seem like a haughty bitch at first glance to my best friend.  But if you ask her today, she’ll tell you I’m the silliest, nerdiest, most soft-hearted person on the planet.  I’m a sap for animals and I’m dorky enough to admit that I leaf through a thesaurus for fun.  I’ve never thought myself particularly pretty (just…different in a good-weird way) but I know I’m unique and I can happily live with that. 

See that? Happy. Also, I am showing off my favorite spot in the house - my kitchen window.

     I also know that I can look in the mirror and see a lot of the people I love stamped into my features.  Family has always meant a great deal to me and having that physical resemblance to another person makes me feel like I belong.  I am made of the same stuff and no matter what goes on in their lives or in mine, when push comes to shove, we are there for one another.  I am proud to be who I am.

My father was born on October 14, 1953, to a town in California. At age three his father left him and four other siblings to a single mother and never returned. In the summer after his senior year his mom and sister got into drug trouble. Him, his brother, and two other sisters were forced to flee town. A year later he was offered to play in the MLB, but denied after not finishing high school on time, because of his government class that he had skipped and ultimately failed. His dreams has been dashed forever. He is now a carpenter, creating phenomenal works, but never getting noticed, being loved none the less.

My mother was born on February 12, 1965. Both her parents were drunks. Often her mother left her and her younger brother home alone for nights at a time. When she would return intoxicated, they would be fed rotten food. Countless times they were removed to foster care. When they weren’t she was left to fend for herself and take care of her brother. Before the age of seventeen she was living on her own. She had graduated high school and immediately started her own business, working for companies such as Microsoft and NASA. However, things came about and opportunities were missed.

Later in my parents lives their paths crossed, they married and had a son. Before I was a year old they had divorced. Custody battles ensued, and a few years later I was at horrible odds with my mother. We would have furious quarrels, and physical fights. After I would leave, not seeing her for months. As I aged my dads dreams of the MLB were vicariously put upon my shoulders. I worked extremely hard, but never could live up to his expectations. We argued relentlessly until inexorably I quit, and our relationship was put under severe stress. It didn’t help that I was at a private Catholic school for eleven years, with few friends, and a step-mother and mother who when I saw I absolutely could not get along with. Into my early teens I could not possibly imagine how life could be good for me. The odds were stacked against me even before I was born. However, even with that, something inside me always said that I could be someone great. Freshmen year I took more control of my life. I left that adversity behind me; the adversity at school, the adversity with my parents, and the adversity of my past and ancestry. I left the game of baseball, and came to the sport of track. This changed my life. Through the dedication to that sport I learned to repair the relationships in my life, and be my best in everything. Because of that I now have near perfect grades, I’ve broken school records, and have a future that gets brighter everyday. Dreams once abstract and unattainable, are now just beyond one hurdle. One that I intend on clearing.

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The following is an idea of the records I will search. The aim in searching all these records is to not only expand your family tree but to get a good idea of what your ancestors lives were like, how they lived etc.
Births Deaths & Marriages – Civil Registration
Civil registration of Births Deaths and marriages was first introduced in England and Wales in 1837 and in Australia it was 1838. A great deal of information can be gained from these certificates and the information provided varies from country to country. This source is the foundation for family history research which can then be expanded through other records.

Census Records
The first National censuses were taken in England, Wales and Scotland in 1801. To begin with these census returns were only for statistical purposes. After 1841 further information about the persons age, birthplace, occupation and the family relationships was added. Unfortunately there are no national censuses for Australia at this time.

Parish Registers
Prior to civil registration parish registers that record baptisms, marriages and burials are the prime source of information. The earliest English parish registers date from 1538. I can access both English and Australian parish registers.

Military Records
I am able to research Australian service personnel from the Boer War onwards, however I specialise in World War One and World War Two servicemen. I am able to provide unit histories, war diaries, service records etc. In most cases I can tell you what battle a serviceman died in and provide information on this battle. I am also able to provide in nearly all cases their burial location and provide a photograph of their final resting place. I also have exclusive access to the grave registration cards for World War Two servicemen. These cards are not readily available to the public and contain vital information such as cause of death, original burial location etc.

Newspapers
I have access to hundreds of newspapers and have found these to be extremely beneficial. In many cases obituaries can be found in the older newspapers and quite often photographs and articles on marriages etc in later editions of the newspapers. I thoroughly search any relevant newspaper as I know from experience anything could be found.

Shipping and immigration
Immigration records are an important source of information. Within these records, passenger lists identify who within the family made the journey and from which country and in the case of the United Kingdom, which county they originated from. Approximately 1.5 million free migrants moved to Australia before 1900, with the majority coming from England. After 1945 approximately 6.5 million migrants from countries all over Europe made Australian their home. Quite often families returned home and this can also be traced.

Criminal Records – Convicts
Between 1788 and 1868 around 162,000 convicts were sent to Australia from the United Kingdom. Through records in Australia and the United Kingdom, information of their original crime, sentence and passage can be found. Often the records of the crime and the trial can provide far more personal information about the individual than can be found in many other sources.
Wills
Electoral Rolls

Photographs
Photographs are of course an invaluable asset to any family history. Where possible I will try and locate any photographs that relate to the family such as houses where they resided, schools, churches and burial locations. In the case of Australian servicemen I will also search for a photograph of the individual. If there is any particular photograph that you would like, than I will do my best to take it for you.

Relatives
If you are interested in tracing any relatives in Australia than I can help with that as well. I have had a high success rate in this and have been able to re-unite a considerable amount of families.

Documents that will be included (if available):
Photocopies of Baptisms, Marriages and Death entries from original Parish Registers
Birth, marriage and death certificates
Photocopies of Census returns showing past family members
Photographs – where possible
Photocopies of Australian personnel service records, battalion histories and war diaries.
Photocopies of Newspaper articles

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