Hi Everyone,

Hope you all are having a great weekend so far....

I haven't blogged in a while but i am always working on my family tree.....

In my neverending quest to find new family tree information....

I decided to use the google search engine and do some searches on my  family names.

I usually put the name in quotes(before and after the name) and their known location.

For example, i googled my great-grandfather's name: "Elias Sindle", New Jersey.

Sometimes you get information and alot of the time, you get nothing that relates to what you

 are looking for.

I was lucky the last time i tried this. I accidentally spelled the Sindle name as Sindel.

With this error, i found an article in the New York Times dated 1877 on my great-grandfather,

Elias Sindle. What a find.....

Once in a while, you luck out.

Nance

I recently took a trip to a nearby cemetery called the Canfield-Doremus Cemetery(the old Cedar Grove Cemetery).in Northern New Jersey.  It is a relatively small cemetery and not affiliated with any religious group.This is a one acre plot that was on a farm  that belonged Thomas Doremus. It was used for 70 years as a burial ground. Other land was later added.

It has some burials going back to the 1700's. Some of the older stones were made of red

sandstone and i found some profound inscriptions on them.

The photo above caught my attention: It states

IN
MEMORY OF
JOHN W. WHITE
WHO DIED. 9.TH APRIL. 1841
AGED. 52 YEARS.
Behold. me here. as. you. pass by
As you. are now. so once was I.
But as I am so. you must be.
Prepare for ???

Picture of the stone for Margaret-Caroline Delany

Another read

SACRED
to the Memory
of ROZIL DAVIS who
died September 10th,
1804, in the 40th Year of
his age.

to mortals and sure hope I bid a dieu
And no more the riling sun will view
ready remember thou must die
and like me go into eternity

Canfield Cemetery

I did find a branch of my family also-Sindles

FAMILY OF
GEORGE SINDLE
1821 -
and
SOPHIA, 1823 - 1895.
MARGARET ANN 1846-1885
?ESTER 1848-1874
RACHAEL 1850-1876
ELIZABETH 1853-1874
WILLIAM H 1855-1887
REBECCA 1857-1883
MARY 1863-1895
?HARLES 1865-1884
SINDLE

A very interesting day. I love reading the inscriptions on the old stones. They are always very

touching.

Nan 

Hope everyone had a great weekend.....

Below is a list of Genealogy lookup and information sites

I hope they are helpful.

http://www.rootsweb.com

http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgenweb/

http://www.lambertcastle.org/

http://www.familysearch.org/

 http://www.familysearch.org

http://rocklandgenealogy.org/

Nance

I recently visted some old cemeteries in New Jersey. I will try to post some pictures soon.

I found a lot of the old sandstone headstones with inscriptions that had a sentiment below the names and dates on the stone. They were very moving. I recorded some of the messages and took some pictures.

Hi Everyone,

I had an idea and wanted to get your thoughts.

What if we each listed a Genealogy related website that has helped us in our

family tree research.

If each person just listed one site that you have used that

was helpful, we could all benefit from it.. You never know. I have tried a site

recommended by a friend and found new information that helped me.

So here goes, i'll start.

http://www.findagrave.com/

This is great for finding graves of ancestors......

Hope to see many listings.

NANCE

Hi Everyone,

Here is a great free site for Genealogy. I have one set up there.

You can build a tree and put in pictures. You can go in and get all sorts of reports

free of charge, re: charts, relationships,descendants, a picture family tree. etc.

Great site.....

http://tribalpages.com/

Enjoy and let me know what you think....

Love, Nan