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Author Archives: Billie Tekel Elias
Heraldry and Coats of Arms can aid your genealogy search
John Lehman found my blog and asked me to share his expertise on Coats of Arms and Heraldry with you. Since I knew little about the subject, my curiosity was piqued. John’s Coat of Arms database website has encyclopedic information … Continue reading
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Tagged COA, coat of arms, heraldry, heraldry database, John Lehman
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Organizing your genealogy documents & family tree
I constantly come across scraps of paper on which I scribbled notes — Irv’s Social Security number, the cemetery where Fern is buried, Goldie’s husband married her sister after she died — either something I discovered online or something a … Continue reading
mtDNA as a tool in genealogical research
Back in 2008, my cousin was way ahead of the curve. He was a participant in National Geographic’s Genographic Project before the rest of us were aware of what a haplogroup was. He was so excited to get his results … Continue reading
Dogs have family trees, too
I’ve been busy writing a book about the zany life of my late mother (stay tuned!) In her papers I found a great deal of information about our dogs, and realized pedigreed dogs have family trees, too. Every time an … Continue reading
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Archdiocese of New York (no Brooklyn! no Queens!)
Prior to 1808 when it was formed, the New York Archdiocese was part of Maryland. Go figure! Today, however, records are usually found locally. According to their website, while there is no central filing system in the Archdiocese of New … Continue reading
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Tagged Archdiocese, archives, baptism, BMD, church, confirmation, holy communion, manhattan, marriage record, New York, parish
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American Brilliant Cut Glass
When someone in your family dies, dealing with the emotions is one thing. Dealing with the “stuff” they leave behind is quite another. My mother left so much that I actually have material for a full-blown book. Stay tuned….. Mother … Continue reading
Aboard the Yankee (now in Red Hook)
Once in a while, we bloggers come across someone else’s blog which interests us. Such was the case with me and fellow New Yorker, Keith Muchowski, an academic librarian at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) in Brooklyn. Muchowski … Continue reading
Birth certificate of a royal
If you have royalty in your bloodline, this is what you’re liable to see on birth documents:
Antwerp – New York on the Red Star Line
Between 1873 and 1934, 2.6 million people left the port of Antwerp, Belgium on Red Star Line ships, bound for Canada, Philadelphia and New York. (1 million of them were Jewish, including Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Irving Berlin and my … Continue reading
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Tagged Eugeen Van Mieghem, famous people, immigration, Lower East Side, museums, oceanliners, Red Star Line, shtetl
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