Posts Tagged ‘genealogy’
Photos from Peter & Kayla’s wedding last weekend
Monday, December 26th, 200510 years of GEN-NYS-L mailing list
Sunday, December 4th, 2005Makes you feel old when the mailing list you started
has been around a decade.
Genealogy in New York State (Gen-NYS-L) is still going strong, but most of the action
seems to have moved off to various websites now that the internet is more accessible.
Just sent this birthday note to the list:
Today is the 10th Birthday of this mailing list!Below is part of the first message I sent through to
the mailing list. It was initially hosted on my $2000
Pentium 386/33 with 4M of memory and 120M disk running
a very early version of the free, open source operating
system Linux and connected to the internet over a 56kb
dialup, usually in the evenings after work.
———-
Marc Nozell (nozell@wildcat.MV.COM)
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:41:40 -0500Hi, I'm the gen-nys-l mailing list owner.
At the request of Jerry Dafoe <jcdafoe @ix.netcom.com>, I've created
the GEN-NYS-L mailing list for the discussion of genealogical research
in New York State.———-
Since then it moved to RootsWeb.com in 1996 and has had over
27,721 messages distributed to subscribers. Thanks to RootsWeb.com
for supporting and allowing it be so productive.As of this evening, there are 423 subscribers to GEN-NYS-L and
208 subscribers to GEN-NYS-D.Congratulations everyone!
-marc
GEN-NYS list admin–
Marc Nozell (marc@nozell.com) http://www.nozell.com/blog/
138th Annual Bull Family Picnic
Saturday, August 20th, 2005
Bull Stone House (1722), Campbell Hall NY
Originally uploaded by marcn.
Today was the 138th picnic for the William Bull and Sarah Wells family at
the family homestead in Campbell Hall, NY.
Check out all the photos I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/790281/
Or if you too attended, join Flickr.com,
join this group, “138thBullPicnic” and contribute some of your own photos.
Be sure to check out the Bull Genealogy Wiki I set up also.
Steadily working on the Turkey Hill Rd Graveyard
Saturday, August 13th, 2005
im000623
Originally uploaded by marcn.
The last couple of weekends have been busy, but Griffin and I found some time today to continue documenting the Turkey Hill Graveyard.
We are about 1/4 of the way through with 94 photos and with the school year rapidly approaching, this looks like a multi-year project.
Bull Surname Genealogy
Thursday, July 14th, 2005The 138th Annual William Bull & Sarah Wells picnic is coming up in the next few weeks and I’ve been exchanging email with some distant cousins about ways to improve participation with the Bull Association and contribute genealogy info.
If you have any photos or scans of images having to do with the Bull picnic or any of the Bull descendants, please get a free flickr.com account and join the groups below. Once you have joined those groups, you’ll be able to add your photos to the following groups:
Additionally, there is now a Bull Surname Genealogy wiki for contributing genealogical information. Of course from the wiki you can display and link to images you have uploaded to flickr.com
Memorial for Reuben Cummings (Merrimack, NH)
Monday, July 4th, 2005
Memorial for Reuben Cummings — Merrimack’s only Revolutionary War Casualty (im000419)
Originally uploaded by marcn.
In Memoriam
Reuben Cummings
June 25, 1761 September 13, 1776
Merrimack’s Only Casualty of the American Revolutionary War
At age 14, enlisted as Minute Man
Fought at Battle of Bunker Hill june 17, 1775
Promoted to Drummer July 20, 1776
At age 15, he died and was buried
in the area of Ft. Ticonderoga
–
In Merrimack’s Turkey Hill Graveyard
Lat: 42.85776
Lon: -71.52103
Geotagging gravesite: Matthew Thornton (1714-1803) New Hampshire graveyard sign
Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Matthew Thornton (1714-1803) New Hampshire graveyard sign
Originally uploaded by marcn.
Geotagging is a way to tag your photos with a latitude/longitude on flickr.com and have them mapped using Google Maps.
geobloggers.com just does that.
Basically you add the tags “geotagged“, “geo:lat=xx.xxxx” and “geo:lon=xx.xxxx” to a photo and optionally (but I’ve not see it work otherwise) put a link to geobloggers.com in the photo description.
When you click on the link, it will show that photo on a zoomable google map.
This afternoon Griffin and I took some photos around Matthew Thornton’s gravesite. Drill down can you can see the relative location of all the gravestones. Don’t know who Matthew Thornton was?
I’m trying to convince Spencer and Griffin geotagging a cemetery closer to the house would make
a great summer project — using digital camera, GPS, using the PC, helping genealogists, and of course, the possibility of fame — hopefully will be enough to get them interested.
Northern New York Historical Newspapers
Sunday, May 1st, 2005A number of newspapers in northern New York state have digitized their archives —
Digitization 101: Northern New York Historical Newspapers — this could be a goldmine for genealogists researching in that area.
Now if only Orange County, NY newspapers were digitized I’d be in heaven.
1848 letter from Capt John Bright to brother
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004Last week I bought an old letter on [Ebay](http://www.ebay.com) from Capt John Bright of Cambridge, MA to his brother in 1848.
[Last year other strangers pointed me](http://nozell.com/blog/index.php?s=gideon+taylor&submit=Search) to an Ebay auction for a [Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1857](http://www.nozell.com/genealogy/gideon-taylor-sarah-burr-family-bible/), I was alerted to the auction by some stranger who suggested that it may be related to my wife’s BRIGHT line.
Seemed like a good deal at $15.
Here are some smaller versions of the scans I made tonight. Drop me some email if you want a copy of each of the 9M files.
The seller was nice enough to include a photo copy of some background info from “U.S. Naval Institute” by Carl C. Cutter (1961), pg 484 has a line from the “Queens of the Western Ocean”, Center line, Ripley Center & Co, 73 South St., Mobile Agents est 1824. (In Boston? NYC?)
Year Vessel Tons Masters
1824 Bg. Susquehanna 207 J. Bright
The column with the “Bg.” is untitled, but the other entries are “Sp.”, “Sch.”, and “Bk.” Some type of ship type? (eg. Schooner)
register1-dot.ll — new report for Lifelines genealogy program
Friday, May 14th, 2004This week I whipped up a new report, register1-dot.ll, to use with Lifelines. It creates a directed graph of escendants from a particular individual. You then use ‘dot’ from the AT&T graphviz toolset to create a GIF, PostScript or other file.
Here is a graph from my immigrant ancestor Anthony Vincent Nozell.
I’ve removed the names of all living persons, but you get the idea.
“Descendant graph of Anthony Vincent Nozell (click for fullsize, it *is* legible)”
It is based on the existing register1.ll and register-tex.ll reports
and there is plenty of room for improvement.