Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

INVERNESS, Scotland — Some of the world’s greatest battlefields are overgrown, their secrets and stories lost to the passage of time. Others are full of monuments that literally obscure the past. Then there is Culloden, the brutal conflict Scotland will never forget.

The barren windswept moor is virtually as it was in 1746 when the British government army confronted the Highland clans in the last major battle to be fought on British soil. for more click here

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HALIFAX — For nearly six decades, Albert Layton of Berwick, N.S., had only ever seen one photograph of his grandfather, Frank Forsdike, and never knew much about the soldier except that he’d gone missing during the First World War.

But after years of unanswered questions, a chance visit to a website in November led Layton, 59, to a tangible piece of his grandfather’s history: three unclaimed war medals, which will be formally presented to Layton’s mother Saturday. for more click here

Felipe Hilburn always felt there was something a little unequal about the way he was reconstructing his family tree - nearly all the branches were on his side.

“I’ve got tons of cousins and brothers and aunts and uncles. But on her side,” he said, looking across the table at his wife, Janie, “she only had her mom and two sisters and a few nieces.” for more click here

VICTORIA — Eswyn Ellinor came home on wartime leave to her parent’s village in the south of England.

It was February, 1943. The Second World War raged into what would be its fourth year. Eswyn was just 19, three years of business college in her head, the navy blue uniform of the Women’s Royal Naval Service making her a Wren. for more click here

Source Information:
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls.
About 1880 United States Federal Census
This database is an index to 50 million individuals enumerated in the 1880 United States Federal Census. Census takers recorded many details including each person’s name, address, occupation, relationship to the head of household, race, sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth, parents’ place of birth. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1880 Federal Census. for more click here

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