http://www.deadfred.com/blog Unearthing Relevant News, Advice and Updates for the Living Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:33:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just added today - underneath the photos on the detailed results pages is an icon for sharing on facebook. Make sure you are logged in to your facebook account, then just click on the icon and you'll be prompted to write a message (if you want) and publish your ancestor's ... http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/11/04/share-your-ancestors-on-facebook/ I want to share a wonderful interview about  DeadFred recently conducted by Lisa Louise Cooke  . Lisa is the producer and host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, an audio and video genealogy show   In addition, Lisa hosts the monthly Family Tree Magazine Podcast and videocasts for Family History Expos.   She is a ... http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/11/02/genealogy-gems-lisa-louise-cooke/   "Is there anyone who hasn't had a bad hair day or obsessed about the right hairdo for a special event? Probably not, and this obsession is far from a modern phenomenon. Using the clues explained in this book, you can learn a surprising amount about your ancestors by studying their ... http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/10/20/hairstyles-1840-1900-maureen-taylor/ This new page (also in the menu at right) displays all of the (public) possible reunions that have happened on the site in the past 30 days (from the date the page is viewed). You can click on the photo to see the full record. http://www.deadfred.com/blog/reunions/ http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/07/13/new-past-30-days-reunions-page/ In case you missed it, there is now a permanent page in our blog which will show you the list of surnames added in the past 30 days (from whatever day you view the list): http://www.deadfred.com/blog/whats-new/ Here is the list as of today: Acton Alpaugh Ames Apel Athinson Balfour Bauer Bauer Tafel Bemelman Benson Bingham Blackburn Blum Boatright Bohy Brewer Brickes Brockrodgge Brown Calger Campbell Cavagnaro Chafin Clark Coffman Collins Combs Creighton Crowell Dawe Deperow Dodd Donahue Draper Dubois Dubrish Dunlop Duvall Echelberry Ertle Evans Eveland Fessenden Fleming Fuller Gibson Gillen Goodwin Grace Gregg Gregger Gribble Halifax Hall Hamilton Harmon Hasselhuhn Hecht Henry Hetzner Higgins Hinote Holcombe Holland Holmes Hopper Horton Hudson Hunt Hutchinson Jenkinson Jennings Keinath Kelly Keys Klinefelter Klingler Knoke Koler Krise Kuoke Lageson Lamoreaux Laroche Lawrie Ledbetter Lefever Lenz Lewis Liddy Loesel Longden Loyd Lupher Maddrell Mansell Masterson Mcbride Mccammon Mccoy Mckeough Mclean Mcmurtrey Mehl Mershon Montague Morell Mossner Mounts Munn North O’neill Pacetty Parrish Petersen Phillips Price Priester Purdey Renneker Robinson Roedel Rorah Rumrill Schafsnitz Scheele Schnell Schultz Schwab Shuman Smith Sowle Spencer Stockwell Story Streichard Striebich Strother Taylor Theobald Topsfield Turner Tyrrell Vaughan Venjohn Vertrees Vinton Weaton Weber Weeks Wehrfritz West White White-curry Whitehead Witbeck Wolf Woodworth http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/07/13/whats-new-in-the-database-2/ If your a vintage photo collector here's a great site for buying vintage photos , if your not in the market to buy you can still browse and enjoy history through photos . Bill Bohn has done a nice job with his website . Its worth a visit. Bill say's ... http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/07/12/old-photographic-the-online-vintage-photography-magazine/ Find us in the section "10 Best Web Sites to See Dead People". We LOVE Family Tree Magazine! http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/06/18/deadfredcom-does-it-again/ Allen Anderson Ballard Barber Barnhart Barrington Bayer Bekemeier Benson Biglow Blum Bond Boone Bott Brandon Brewer Bruce Calger Calleja Childress-hudgens Clark Cole Cox Curnutt Devault Dill Drake Driskill Dropp Dubell Dziadulewicz Eddleman Engelbracht Essex Fassett Fernald Foster Franklin Gallagher Given Gresham Grove Hall Harris Harrison Hilborn Hoover Hover/hoover Howe Hunt Hurd Jackson Johnson Jones Julian Julien Kellet Kleinknight Klinefelter Klingler Leidel Lillie Lindsey Litz Loucks Masterson Mattison Mcmurtrey Mershon Morris Mullen Naftzger O'donnell O'neill Okun Orth Padden Parker Patton Pedrotti Pettit Platt Poole Porterfield Powell Price Proctor Robinson Rogers Roloson Rorah Sage Schafsnitz Schnell Schultz Scoggin Severson Skitarelich Sletten Smallwood Smith Sparks Speagh Stevens Stevens-decloss Stinson Thomas Underdunk Vaughan Via Walls Walters Whitehouse Willbrand Wilson Winterstein Winton Wright Yarborough Ziegler http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/06/18/surnames-added-in-the-past-30-days-2/ There are many people I admire in the genealogy world . One of my favorite is Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak . Megan help give DeadFred.com a step up in our early development and has supported us ever since. But thats a small story compared to the vast effect she has had on the ... http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/06/16/honoring-our-ancestors-megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/ Hello Fred Followers! Just wanted to let you know that while trying to remove about 10 THOUSAND spam submissions to our "Friends of Fred" membership form, I inadvertently removed some valid logins for Dead Fred users. If you were one of the unlucky ones, I sincerely apologize. All emails have been restored ... http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2009/05/27/ooops-im-sorry/