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Here are the latest articles on Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter for demmm@hulling-equipment.ru.

DNA Reveals Story of Dad's Disappearance
Atlas of the Cumberland Pioneer Settlements - 1779 - 1804
Video Interview: Ian Tester of FindMyPast.com and the 1911 Census
St George's Cathedral Records are now Online
New Web Site: Manchester Family History Research
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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - 5 new articles

DNA Reveals Story of Dad's Disappearance

John Smithers of Raleigh, NC had spent more than six decades looking for clues about the father who abandoned him, his sister and their mother when he was just a baby. At 82, he had about given up on ever learning what happened to James William Smithers. He had long suspected his father got in trouble with the law and fled abroad. Decades ago, it was easy enough to disappear, and Smithers' father had seemingly vanished into thin air.

On the other side of the world, Lucinda Gray had always...

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Atlas of the Cumberland Pioneer Settlements - 1779 - 1804

I received a message from newsletter reader Paula Snyder that caught ny interest:

I attended an MTGS meeting yesterday where Jack Masters, Doug Drake and Bill Puryear presented information on their book to be published this summer. It is a fantastic piece of work and includes 1500 North Carolina land grants in 11 middle Tennessee counties. They have just begun taking pre-publication orders.

The website describing their work is www.cumberlandpioneers.com.

I think you will be as excited

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Video Interview: Ian Tester of FindMyPast.com and the 1911 Census

I recently had a chance to talk with Ian Tester about the 1911 census recently released in England and Wales. More than 16 million images have been scanned in and can be accessed on www.1911census.co.uk.

I must say that Ian was dressed in a rather unusual manner, wearing a cap and gown. In this video, he explains why he was dressed that way.

Roots Television's camera crew kindly recorded our conversation and has now made it available at ...

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St George's Cathedral Records are now Online

The following announcement was written by 24.com:

Ancestry24.co.za, South Africa's premier genealogy and ancestral website, has partnered with the Anglican Church in making the marriage and baptism records of St George's Cathedral in Cape Town accessible online. St George's is the oldest cathedral in southern Africa and is the mother church of the Anglican diocese of Cape Town.

A total of 3,633 marriage records, dating from the first available St Georges records in 1825 and

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New Web Site: Manchester Family History Research

Gerard Lodge has created a new web site that looks great. Gerard writes, "There is a lot of free information on this site for people with ancestors in Greater Manchester and Lancashire, UK. Amongst many, many pieces of information it contains the prison record entries of the Manchester Martyrs and their associates who were involved in the storming of the police van in 1867."

The home page of the new site states:

This is not your ordinary run of the mill family history or genealogy

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