Speer – Spear Descendants In America – 2011

This link is for my most recent uploaded database, hosted by RootsWeb.com: <http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=berryhill2011&id=I893 It is as COMPLETE as I have at present. If you find errors, have additional information or family photos you would to share with me — email me. As my schedule allows I will add photos I have found that relate to [...]

Link Follow-Up: Mary Tom Speer

The Yahoo Geocities is LONG-GONE; but many of the websites once found there, have been ‘mirrored’ (saved) to another site as an archived page. Thus there is still information available about Mary Tom Speer at this address: http://www.reocities.com/heartland/bluffs/2986/marytom.htm – the page may not have the original formatting of the Geocities version — but all the [...]

Hot Day

7 July 2010 One very hot day. Dave and I delivered groceries to Mom; then headed back home. Stopped at a few thrift/antique stores along the way. Since getting in the AC, and starting to cool off, have been reading messages, and adding/correcting more items on my websites (somewhat set in havoc by my previous [...]

Death of a computer…a new beginning

(Take two…) Attempted this post just but a few minutes ago — stepped away from the keyboard — came back the automatic Windows 7 update had re-started my computer. [growl!] I lost all the text I had written (now have settings a bit different, to prevent this problem from occurring again) — I hate having [...]

Genealogy Mailing Lists and Groups – Very Useful!

Genealogy Mailing Lists When subscribing, please make sure that the subscribe command is the only text in the body of the message unless the list description states otherwise. In general, you must be a subscriber to post to these mailing lists and posting instructions will be contained in the Welcome message you receive when you [...]

Gwendolen Mary Speir (1870-1934)

RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: My relatives all over the world # ID: I25885# Name: Gwendolen Mary SPEIR# Given Name: Gwendolen Mary# Surname: Speir# Sex: F# Birth: 29 Aug 1870# Death: 2 Dec 1934# _UID: D37DBAD98C154FF2AD4876FF1D35E159BB10 HintsAncestry Hints for Gwendolen Mary SPEIR 3 possible matches found on Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Father: Robert Thomas Napier SPEIRMother: Emily GIFFORD b: [...]

Anniston Star: Second mound report released

Anniston Star – Second mound report released slideshowOXFORD — A University of Alabama archaeologist has released a report stating a pile of stones in Oxford was created by natural forces and not American Indians centuries ago — a report written two months after he signed another report stating the opposite. Robert Clouse, director of the [...]

Facebook: Movement to Preserve Native American Sacred Sites and Culture in Alabama

Facebook | Movement to Preserve Native American Sacred Sites and Culture in Alabama <—click for further details—< Basic Info Name: Movement to Preserve Native American Sacred Sites and Culture in AlabamaCategory: Common Interest – Current EventsDescription: Alabama Needs YOUR HELP: Protect Sacred Prehistoric Sites The people and culture of Alabama need your help. Alabama has [...]

Movement for Protection of Mounds and Cultural Heritage in Alabama

Folks: I choose my causes carefully — this is one I feel is important. Please, read the note below and let me know what you think. We need input on this issue. —– From FB Page: “Movement for Protection of Mounds and Cultural Heritage in Alabama” “Hi everyone, Based on the suggestion of Rainey Welch [...]

Cashing in on history: Moundville brings money to west Alabama, but price is too high for Oxford

Anniston Star – Cashing in on history Moundville brings money to west Alabama but price is too high for Oxford Centuries ago, American Indians settled in an area near Tuscaloosa, where they built towering mounds and a thriving cultural center. Today the area is known as the Moundville Archaeological Park and it too is thriving [...]