My Heritage Site

I have a burning desire to discover all I can about my heritage. I want to know more than ancestors' names and dates of birth, marriage, and death. I'm striving to create a complete history of the lives of my forebears. This blog will become part of My Heritage Site, and will serve many purposes: a research journal, a forum for long lost cousins to find me and communicate, and an enjoyable way for me to see my progress in my long long search to find the stories of my ancestors.

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Name:Katherine "Gerry" Billings Palmer
Location:Edgewater, Maryland

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

The new site is up

Well, it's not exactly new, but it's cleaned up and better organized.

Tonight, I worked on cleaning up my family tree for publishing as a gedcom. It needs more work, but it's much improved, so I privatized information on living relatives and uploaded the latest tree. I need to start on the Palmer tree next.

I came across a couple of good research aids today. The first is the "Historic Directories" website [http://www.historicaldirectories.org] This was a quick tidbit in my Cornish Gen-list, and it was a really pleasant surprise. There are hundreds of trade directories from the 19th and early 20th century online. There's a good search engine and I easily found some ancestors.

I was especially excited to find my great-great-great-grandmother Catherine Rickard Billing. She was 76 years old and listed in a directory for St. Breward, Cornwall, where she was a "beer retailer." In earlier census records, she and her husband (St. John Billing) were listed as innkeepers.


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