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 Topic: ResearchThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
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Origin of the modern English family name
Posted by: CStoner on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 07:59 PM
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British Surnames: First-names, Localities, Occupations, Nicknames
by John Kennedy
British surnames became fixed in the period between 1250 and 1450. The broad range of ethnic and linguistic roots for British surnames reflects the history of Britain as an oft-invaded land. These roots include, but are not limited to, Old English, Middle English, Old French, Old Norse, Irish, Gaelic, Celtic, Pictish, Welsh, Gaulish, Germanic, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Please note that by "British" we mean only 'inhabitant of the British Isles,' not citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We have grouped English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish surnames together mainly because they overlap so often.
Throughout the British Isles, there are only four types of native surnames:
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CARTE-DE-VISITE photography
Posted by: CStoner on Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 02:03 AM
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After viewing the photos that Sharon posted, I was curious about this old photography technique. Here is a description of Carte-de-visite in case you are interested:
Cartes-de-visite were small visiting card portraits (usually measuring 4 1/2 x 2 1/2") introduced by a Parisian photographer, Andre Disdéri, who in late 1854 patented a way of taking a number of photographs on one plate (usually eight), thus greatly reducing production costs. (He was not actually the first to produce them; this honour belongs to an otherwise obscure photographer called Dodero, from Marseilles).
Different types of cameras were devised. Some had a mechanism which rotated the photographic plate, others had multiple lenses which could be uncovered singly or all together.
The carte-de-visite did not catch on until one day in May 1859 Napoleon III, on his way to Italy with his army, halted his troops and went into Disdéri's studio in Paris, to have his photograph taken. From this welcome publicity Disdéri's fame began, and two years later he was said to be earning nearly £50,000 a year from one studio alone. **
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Randolph Columbus Doom branch in Texas
Posted by: BStoner on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:05 PM
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----ORIGINAL POST BY Lizajane ON SEP 8th----
I stumbled onto your site and forum today after finding the missing link from my family to Jacob Doom. Have read with great interest the many postings and replies. Here is my connection to all of you: Jacob and Abigail had a son, John born 1785 in Bardstown, Nelson Co., KY, who married Mary "Polly" Kelly, b. @1789 in SC, on 25 Feb 1810 in Caldwell Co., KY. They had five children that I know: Isaac, Randolph, Henry, Jacob and Jesse. Randolph was born 7 Jan 1811 in Caldwell Co., KY.
He migrated to Texas in time for the War for Independence from Mexico and served as paymaster in the Army of the Republic of TX in Henry Hubbe's company. Upon entering Texas he listed "violinist" as his occupation and stated that he had read law in KY. He was at the Battle of San Jacinto, which ended the war. He is said to have played "Come to the Bower" on his violin for Sam Houston. The violin now belongs to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, though my own son is a professional violinist. The Colonel (which was more honorary than earned title) was first married to Nancy Ward. They had James, Sarah Ann Elizabeth, Mary Frances and Helen. Nancy died in Austin, Travis Co., TX the year Mary Frances was born. (One year later on 15 Aug 1847 he married Altazera Williams Everitt, widow of Stephen Everitt. They had David, Jennie and Nancy Elizabeth.) Sarah Ann Elizabeth Doom was born 25 Feb. 1843 and wed Thomas W. Causey, born 17 Mar 1824 in MS, on 13 May 1858 in Jasper Co., TX. By that time Col. Doom had served variously in the Republic's Legislature and after Texas was admitted to the U.S., in the state legislature. He also served for a time as Customs Agent for Sabine Pass, appointed by Republic President Sam Houston. He was a plantation owner and attorney in Jasper Co. He was elected County Judge 3 times. He died in December 1881 in Jasper. His daughter "Eliza" and Thomas had seven children, Mary "Mollie", Phillip (a violinist), Nancy "Nannie", Arch B., Helen, Nellie and Frances "Fannie" Causey. Note the naming of children for beloved Doom relatives and also Causeys. Arch B. Causey was born Dec 1869 in Jasper Co., TX and married May Kellie, dtr of Capt Edward Irwin Kellie and Mattie S. Brown, in @1893 in Jasper. She was born 30 Jan 1873 in Jasper. Their eight children included Leon Bertram, Lexie May, Edgar, Thomas, Gladys, Ruth, Irma, and Archie. Leon was born 27 Sep 1895 and married Grace Musgrove of Merryville, LA in @1825. She was born 14 Jan 1904. Their children were LB, Jr. and my mother Bety Jo, born 10 Nov 1930. Eliza Doom Causey died 16 Jan 1939.
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Know Your Sources (or Caveat Datum)
Posted by: BStoner on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 05:59 PM
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by Sharon Lowe McDonnell
I have been researching my family roots for about five years now. I’m not sure what prompted me to start, but I think that computers had a lot to do with it. I would love to be able to visit cemeteries, libraries, and places where public records for my ancestors reside, but I don’t have that kind of time or money. Now I understand why for so many years the genealogist in a family was usually someone who was retired. The advent of PCs in most homes, along with Internet access and affordable, easy-to-use database programs to store and organize records changed all that for a lot of people.PCs and genealogical software are a boon to research. You can access files in a Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, Utah or join a listserv devoted to a surname that you are researching any time of the day or night, any day of the year, all in the comfort of your home. You can exchange information by email and even share your entire family database with the world by uploading a GEDCOM file to LDS.org or worldancestry.com. But this convenience doesn’t come without some caveats. The data you get on the Internet may not be reliable. There may be inaccuracies and omissions in the files sent to the Mormon or ancestry sites. These sites will publish GEDCOMs from anyone and they don’t verify or enforce rules for citation of sources for the data. Not only that, there have been cases of pranksters planting misinformation which is then propagated by other researchers much the way a computer virus is spread. The first lesson then is that you should check citations where available and don’t assume everything you read on the Web is gospel—even on a religious site like LDS.org!
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