2012 Family Reunion Hawkins-Smith-Pattillo
The committee of the Hawkins, Smith, Patillo reunion writes to inform you of the upcoming family reunion for August 3rd, 4th, 5th 2012. Registration package will be mailed at a later date, along with other information.
It will be held at the Austin Convention Hotel & Spa at 305 Malvern Ave. Hot Springs Arkansas 71901. Room Rates are $92.00 per night Single, Double, Triple, Quad Occupancy. $170.00 One -Bedroom Suite & $255.00 Two -Bedroom Suite. Reservation Phone # 877-623-6697 & mention HSP Family Reunion.
The Registration prices are listed for ages 0-3 Free, 4-11 $55.00, and 12-UP $85.00, this includes t-shirts. The cutoff date will be June 15, 2012 and there will be a late fee if not received by cutoff date. Payment in the form of Money orders & cashier checks ONLY (No Personal Check). Our meal time are scheduled for Friday 7pm-9pm, Saturday 7am-9am, Saturday 7pm-9pm.
Registration can be sent to Randy & Gloria Harris or contact Chairperson Tanya Matlock.
For the most up-to-date information on shows, attractions, activities, tours and more in the Hot Springs area, visit
http://www.hotsprings.com/.
We thank you & look forward to seeing you in 2012.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tuesday's Tip: Ohio Obituary Index
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| Ohio Obituary Index |
If you are researching persons who died in Ohio, than the Ohio Obituary Index will be a great resource for you. The Index covers more than 2, 100, 000 obituaries, and death & Marriage notices from Ohio, starting in the 1810s to present day!
The cost depends on the library holding the original obituary, but run as low as $1.00 and they will even scan and email you a copy.
To learn more about this index and locations covered, visit the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday: Mack Henry Smith
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| Headstone of Mack H. Smith at Sunrise Memorial Cemetery, Vallejo, California; Taken by Author 14 Nov 2011 |
Mack Henry Smith was my great grandfather. He was born in Tulip, Dallas County, Arkansas on May 6th; the year of birth has been listed as anytime from 1885 up to 1888. He died on 29 May 1964 in Richmond, Contra Costa County, California. He was buried in Sunrise Memorial Cemetery in Vallejo, California.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Sunday's Obituary: Bobbie Leora (Brandon) Sloane
Obituary Notice for
BOBBIE SLOANE
CARTHAGE-- Funeral services for Bobbie Leora Brandon Sloane, 80, of Carthage, who died November 29, 1997, at her home, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Carthage Church of God in Christ with Elder Frank Phillips Sr. officiating. Burial will be in Bethel Cemetery at Carthage by Brown-Williams Funeral Home of Fordyce.
She was born on March 1, 1917, at Carthage, a daughter of the late George Brandon and Ella Brandon.
She was a member of Carthage Church of God in Christ, where she was a deaconess, YPWW teacher and the treasurer of Bible Books.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Sloane.
Survivors include three sons, a daughter; a brother; three sisters; a stepdaughter; 18 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
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PINE BLUFF COMMERICAL MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1997
Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas
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Headstone for Bobbie Brandon Sloane at
Bethel Cemetery, Carthage, Dallas County, Arkansas- Taken on 20 Sept 2002 |
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| Double headstone with her husband Henry "Duke" Sloane |
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday: L. C. Smith
Sunrise Memorial Cemetery
Vallejo, California
LC Smith in his Army uniform
He served in the US Army during World War II.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Genealogical Goals for 2012
Here are my Genealogical Goals for 2012:
POST: I would like to create at least five posts on these blog per week.
I will try for more, but my goal is at least one. I think by using some of the Geneabloggers daily prompts will help.
ORGANIZATION: I have so many photos and unanswered emails on my computer, in my office, on my laptop and not to mention all the files and papers in my home office. I hope to be able to get things under-controlled and organized and placed in archival safe storage boxes and containers.
I am going to follow DearMYRTLE's Organization Monthly Checklists to help me find direction and have a solid plan. These forms can be found here. I am hoping that DearMyrtle continues these checklists, since she stopped in May.
Along the organization line, I am hoping to get a new desktop computer, so I can digitalize all my photos and documents on one system. I am also hoping to buy a flip-pal scanner to take with me on my genealogical travels.
LEARNING & GROWTH: I am planning to continue to attend GeneaWebinars and online Family History Classes. Hopefully I can attended some in-person classes and conferences, but we will see.
GENEALOGICAL: I need to plan some in-person visits to some of my family members, so I can get additional family histories and maybe new family photos of our ancestors.
My sister and I want to visit my Grandmother in the next month, so I am planning my list of questions and unlabeled photos to bring.
I am also planning to attend a Family Reunion this summer in Hot Springs, Arkansas (I will post a separate entry about this reunion in the near future). This will be a great way to meet more cousins and maybe find out more about my Family History and label photos.
POST: I would like to create at least five posts on these blog per week.
I will try for more, but my goal is at least one. I think by using some of the Geneabloggers daily prompts will help.
ORGANIZATION: I have so many photos and unanswered emails on my computer, in my office, on my laptop and not to mention all the files and papers in my home office. I hope to be able to get things under-controlled and organized and placed in archival safe storage boxes and containers.
I am going to follow DearMYRTLE's Organization Monthly Checklists to help me find direction and have a solid plan. These forms can be found here. I am hoping that DearMyrtle continues these checklists, since she stopped in May.
Along the organization line, I am hoping to get a new desktop computer, so I can digitalize all my photos and documents on one system. I am also hoping to buy a flip-pal scanner to take with me on my genealogical travels.
LEARNING & GROWTH: I am planning to continue to attend GeneaWebinars and online Family History Classes. Hopefully I can attended some in-person classes and conferences, but we will see.
GENEALOGICAL: I need to plan some in-person visits to some of my family members, so I can get additional family histories and maybe new family photos of our ancestors.
My sister and I want to visit my Grandmother in the next month, so I am planning my list of questions and unlabeled photos to bring.
I am also planning to attend a Family Reunion this summer in Hot Springs, Arkansas (I will post a separate entry about this reunion in the near future). This will be a great way to meet more cousins and maybe find out more about my Family History and label photos.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Getting to Know my Maternal Ancestors
My page from 23andme.com can be found here.
Get to know Jamila's maternal ancestors.
Jamila's Ancestral Map
Jamila is part of a maternal line that scientists have labeled haplogroup H. The map below shows where people of haplogroup H lived around 500 years ago, before modern transportation allowed people to easily move from continent to continent.
H originated in the Near East and then expanded after the peak of the Ice Age into Europe, where it is the most prevalent haplogroup today. It is present in about half of the Scandinavian population and is also common along the continent's Atlantic coast.
Quick Facts
Haplogroup: H
Age: more than 40,000 years
Region: Europe, Near East, Central Asia
Populations: Basques, Scandinavians
Highlight: Mitochondrial DNA extracted from the remains of St. Luke belonged to haplogroup H.
Jamila's Ancestral History
Marie Antoinette belonged to haplogroup H.
Introduction
Haplogroup H dominates in Europe, reaching peak concentrations along the Atlantic coast. It is also common in many parts of the Near East and Caucusus Mountains, where the haplogroup can reach levels of 50% in some populations. H originated about 40,000 years ago in the Near East, where favorable climate conditions allowed it to flourish. About 10,000 years later it spread westward all the way to the Atlantic coast and east into central Asia as far as the Altay Mountains.
About 21,000 years ago an intensification of Ice Age conditions blanketed much of Eurasia with mile-thick glaciers and squeezed people into a handful of ice-free refuges in Iberia, Italy, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Several branches of haplogroup H arose during that time, and after the glaciers began receding about 15,000 years ago most of them played a prominent role in the repopulation of the continent.
H1 and H3 expanded dramatically from the Iberian Peninsula, along the Atlantic coast and into central and northern Europe. Other branches, such as H5a and H13a1, expanded from the Near East into southern Europe. After a 1,000-year return to Ice Age conditions about 12,000 years ago, yet another migration carried haplogroup H4 from the Near East northward into Russia and eastern Europe.
Haplogroup H achieved an even wider distribution later one with the spread of agriculture and the rise of organized military campaigns. It is now found throughout Europe and at lower levels in Asia, reaching as far south as Arabia and eastward to the western fringes of Siberia.
Royal Lines
Because it is so common in the general European population, haplogroup H also appears quite frequently in the continent's royal houses. Marie Antoinette, an Austrian Hapsburg who married into the French royal family, inherited the haplogroup from her maternal ancestors. So did Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, whose recorded genealogy traces his female line to Bavaria.
In the Spittoon...
Scientists recently discovered that famed 16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus traced his maternal lineage to Haplogroup H. Check out the Spittoon to learn more about this discovery.
Recent research indicates Haplogroup H made its way into the deserts of northern Africa via the Strait of Gibraltar. Find out how H crossed the Pillars of Hercules at the Spittoon.
What is a Haplogroup?
Haplogroup is the term scientists use to describe individual branches, or closely related groups of branches, on the genetic family tree of all humans. All members of a haplogroup trace their ancestry back to a single individual.
Get to know Jamila's maternal ancestors.
Jamila's Ancestral Map
Jamila is part of a maternal line that scientists have labeled haplogroup H. The map below shows where people of haplogroup H lived around 500 years ago, before modern transportation allowed people to easily move from continent to continent.
H originated in the Near East and then expanded after the peak of the Ice Age into Europe, where it is the most prevalent haplogroup today. It is present in about half of the Scandinavian population and is also common along the continent's Atlantic coast.
Quick Facts
Haplogroup: H
Age: more than 40,000 years
Region: Europe, Near East, Central Asia
Populations: Basques, Scandinavians
Highlight: Mitochondrial DNA extracted from the remains of St. Luke belonged to haplogroup H.
Jamila's Ancestral History
Marie Antoinette belonged to haplogroup H.
Introduction
Haplogroup H dominates in Europe, reaching peak concentrations along the Atlantic coast. It is also common in many parts of the Near East and Caucusus Mountains, where the haplogroup can reach levels of 50% in some populations. H originated about 40,000 years ago in the Near East, where favorable climate conditions allowed it to flourish. About 10,000 years later it spread westward all the way to the Atlantic coast and east into central Asia as far as the Altay Mountains.
About 21,000 years ago an intensification of Ice Age conditions blanketed much of Eurasia with mile-thick glaciers and squeezed people into a handful of ice-free refuges in Iberia, Italy, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Several branches of haplogroup H arose during that time, and after the glaciers began receding about 15,000 years ago most of them played a prominent role in the repopulation of the continent.
H1 and H3 expanded dramatically from the Iberian Peninsula, along the Atlantic coast and into central and northern Europe. Other branches, such as H5a and H13a1, expanded from the Near East into southern Europe. After a 1,000-year return to Ice Age conditions about 12,000 years ago, yet another migration carried haplogroup H4 from the Near East northward into Russia and eastern Europe.
Haplogroup H achieved an even wider distribution later one with the spread of agriculture and the rise of organized military campaigns. It is now found throughout Europe and at lower levels in Asia, reaching as far south as Arabia and eastward to the western fringes of Siberia.
Royal Lines
Because it is so common in the general European population, haplogroup H also appears quite frequently in the continent's royal houses. Marie Antoinette, an Austrian Hapsburg who married into the French royal family, inherited the haplogroup from her maternal ancestors. So did Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, whose recorded genealogy traces his female line to Bavaria.
In the Spittoon...
Scientists recently discovered that famed 16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus traced his maternal lineage to Haplogroup H. Check out the Spittoon to learn more about this discovery.
Recent research indicates Haplogroup H made its way into the deserts of northern Africa via the Strait of Gibraltar. Find out how H crossed the Pillars of Hercules at the Spittoon.
What is a Haplogroup?
Haplogroup is the term scientists use to describe individual branches, or closely related groups of branches, on the genetic family tree of all humans. All members of a haplogroup trace their ancestry back to a single individual.
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