I have published SAMUEL MCKEE AND HIS FAMILY, an account of the Samuel McKee
who died in Fayette County, KY, in 1813, and of his children and their
descendants. Samuel's grand-daughters Patsy McKee Ardery and Elizabeth
McKee Hamilton settled in Decatur County, as did his grand-son Archibald
McKee. Both daughters were widowed in the 1840s, and Archibald died in the
1850s. Patsy lived in Decatur County for the rest of her life, but
Elizabeth Hamilton and Archibald McKee's widow moved with their children to
Iowa in the 1850s.
If any who read this list are interested in the book, please contact me for
a copy of the publication announcement/order form.
David R. Hoffman
PO Box 247
Harrisburg, PA 17108
traugott(a)epix.net
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From: "John Ballard" <john.ballard(a)anu.edu.au>
To: <INDECATU-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:48 AM
Subject: [INDECATU] new English website
Trace your family fortunes with Church of England's latest web
development - New web portal brings together a powerful range of sources
to help
family historians
The Church of England has today launched a new area on its website to
assist the thousands of people currently trying to trace the branches of
their family tree. See -
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/librariesandarchives/familyhistory/
index.html
The move reflects the huge popularity of research into family history:
when the 1901 Census was placed online in 2002 it soon became one of the
most visited sites on the web, and more than 829,000 people have visited
The National Archive's Family Records Centres in London and Kew in the
last three years. The Church's dedicated web area brings together links
to a range of sources for tracing family histories - including the
Lambeth Palace Library - and provides contact points for archives and
repositories up and down the land.
For many years, the Church has been a natural point of information for
those seeking information on their family history because of its wealth
of written records of baptisms, weddings and funerals, as well as
details of the placement of clergy across the country. "These Anglican
records can be a great source for those embarking on tracing their
family tree," says Declan Kelly, Director of Libraries and Archives for
the Church of England.
"Local clergy are often approached by people seeking access to the
church's registers, but in many instances the records that they are
after have been moved elsewhere. We hope that the new guidance will
enable people to visit a single point for information on how the Church
of England can help them research their ancestors' past lives," adds
Declan.
The Church of England's new pages explain that prior to 1837 there was
no central registration of births, marriages and deaths in England, and
therefore parish registers are the main source of information for
establishing the facts of such events during this period. These
registers, along with 'Bishops transcripts' which can help fill in the
gaps, are usually held in local or county record offices, but parish
registers are sometimes still held by local parish churches. The pages
point researchers to sources that can help identify where these records
may now be held.
After 1837, when centralised records began to be kept, the Church still
maintained records of births, marriages and funerals, and the pages
sketch out how researchers might go about exploring this history.
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