Site Newsletter - August 2013

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Website Newsletter – August 2013

Welcome

to all viewers of our Family History Website. We welcome the researchers that continue to come to our website, as well as new researchers who have newly discovered our resources . We hope that all researchers will continue to enjoy reading the relevant newsletters, finding out about Reunions that are planned by family history planners everywhere, and searching for lost family members of your lineage that may be in our databases.

Twitter:

We are now sending out Tweets concerning different occurrences on our website. You can follow us at OnlineFamilyNetwork@ofnorg .

FAMILY HISTORY:

Under “Family History”, you will find the most recent Announcements, Newsletters,

Chronicles, Obituaries or Media Gallery information on the “Surnames” you are interested in. To view this information, click on the starting letter of the surname you are interested in and then select the segment you wish to view. For the June 2013 period, there were several new “Family Newsletters”. Also, under the letter “H”, then under

“The HUNT 14”, click on “

Media Gallery

” to see some of the pictures that were taken during the HUNT COUSINS REUNION held 7-9 June 2013, at Lake Tiah-

O’Khata in Louisville, Winston County, Mississippi.

FAMILY NEWSLETTERS:

We have added Family Newsletters during the month of June 2013. To read these newsletters on the website, click on “FAMILY HISTORY”, then click on the starting letter of the surname of interest to you, then click on the surname of interest to you (of those surnames that we currently have information on). Find the most recent

Announcements, Newsletters, Chronicles, Obituaries or Media Gallery information and click on the one that you want to read or view while on the website. Some of the new additions this month include:

The Weeks Mississippi Family Newsletter, February 1993,

The Oswalt Family Mississippi Newsletter, July 2013, and

The Ridgeway Family Newsletter, July 2013,

The Shaw Family Mississippi Newsletter, July 2013,

Please review the Newsletters on this website and consider generating and inputting your own Family Newsletter for others to see.

OUR COMMUNITY:

Letters from the Editor

In the spirit of providing information of interest to our many viewers, we have generated

Letters from the Editor

.” To read those Letters, go to the

Banner , at the top of any website page, then click on “ Our Community .” Once the drop-down menu appears, click on “

Letters from the Editor

.” A new page opens up with our Letters listed. Select the Letter you wish to read and that Letter opens up on a new page. After reading a

Letter, you can either repeat this process, or click on the back-arrow to return to the

Letters list. We hope that, in time, you will decide to upload your choice of material that would become a Letter from the Editor. Our most recent Letter from the Editor is:

Colonial Louisiana’s documents add to US history – Published 15 July 2013

Remember that under “Our Community” you can start or join a “FORUM.” You can use most any topic for discussion.

We are preparing to have “Groups” available for membership only. We will have more information available on this subject in the immediate future.

ONLINE FAMILY DATABASES/TREES:

During the month of July 2013, we added quite thirty-nine (39) new GEDCOM Family History

Files to our list of Family trees as follows:

Eli Milton HUNT – Georgia to Alabama,

William Daniel HUNT of Pennsylvania,

William & Elizabeth Best HUNT of Massachusetts,

Hunts of Gposfield, Essex, and the De Vere’s of Earls Colne,

The Hunt Family of Ontario, Canada, District of Algoma,

Joseph HUNT of “Wiltshire, England,

William Riley Ogden & Ruth Hunt of Arkansas,

Richard and Eleanor Linton Hunt Family,

William Hunt, Birmingham, England Family,

Hunt-Zimmerman,

Amesbury HUNT Line,

John TUMA (born 23 Sep 1848 in Bohemia) and wife Katherina SVOBODA (born 7 Nov 1852),

Richard SULLINS, who died circa 1771 in Halifax Co., VA,

Martin STUCKEY (born circa 1788 Cumberland Co., PA) & Rosana (KEIFER) STUDKEY (born circa

1784 in PA,

Ezekiel SPRINGER (born 1754 in Distruct 96 [now Union Co.], SC) and wife Rebecca COLLINS,

John SMYTHE, born 1756 in Goochland Co., VA,

Friederich SCHLEIFF/SLIFFE/SLIFE 1751 Germany,

David QUARLES, born 1755/65, South Carolina,

John PIPKIN, christened 14 Mar 1675 at Stanbridge, county Bedford, England,

Andrew J. PACE,

Johann Theobald MECHLIN & Anna Elizabeth LAUER,

Jesse E. MARGRAVE 1765 & Mary LAUGHLIN,

John Alexander JOHNS, born by 1770,

Randall JANNEY, I, (born circa 1526/30, Cheshire, England) and wife Alice WILKERSON,

Valentin e HOLLINGSWORTH & John CALVERT,

Felix G. HAWKINS,

George HARLAN(D) & Eloizabeth DUCK,

Wright HANKINS and his wife Arminta TALLANT,

James GROVER, christened at Chesham, England, on 8 November 1607,

James GASS 1734,

William EAVES, born circa 1638,

Michael DOMER, Sr., born in 1744 in Germany,

Samuel and Sarah (KEITH) COWAN,

William CARROLL, Sr., Granville, Co., NC,

Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH & John CALVERT,

Reuben BROCK, born circa 1724 in Ireland,

Henry BRAY,

Henry BORDEN (born 1370’s, England),

Renny BELUE Sr.

To search these files, go to GEDCOM Files and click on the Tree list, then click on all Trees or the

Family Tree of your choice. You can input your person of interest and click on Search to see if your person of interest is in any of these GEDCOM files. In the immediate future, we will continue to be adding more GEDCOM files for you to search.

Remember that you can upload your own GEDCOM File, or send us your GEDCOM genealogy database and we will upload it for you, and add it to the databases that currently exist on our website. Be assured there will be "No Charge" for people to Search your GEDCOM database (or well as the others we are hosting).

How would you like to build your own Family History database on our website, with the ability to make updates as you discover new material for addition to your website? This capability will soon be offered to the customers of our website.

DNA Results:

The Y-DNA Section of our website has been updated to present a better explanation of what DNA research is all about. On the website front page, click on Y-DNA to read more about DNA.

After your reading, if you would like to share your DNA results [ Y-DNA, MIDNA, or

Autosomal DNA ], you can forward that information to us and we will upload it into our website so that others can view what you have and possibly find a new relative.

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The OnlineFamilyNetwork Team

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