{"id":72,"date":"2008-07-27T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2023-05-12T14:17:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:17:18","slug":"its-great-day-for-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/its-great-day-for-genealogy.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s a great day for genealogy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a great day for genealogy! And, it’s a particularly good day for me too!<\/strong><\/span>
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Today marks exactly 43 years since I started working in genealogy. <\/strong><\/span>
Wow, it’s been fun. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was 26 July 1965 – in Stamford, CT – George B. Everton, Sr. (1904-1996)<\/a> and his wife Ellen (Nielsen) Everton (1902-1987)<\/a> were conducting a genealogy workshop at the Ferguson Library. I worked at the “Ferguson” and was listening to their presentation from the hall – standing in the doorway – when he announced that they were going to give out a few door prizes – “to the youngest and oldest person” attending the lecture. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

He said, “the youngest person is easy …. it’s him” – pointing to me. I was shocked – but was pleased to receive a 10-generation family tree chart. And, as they say – the rest was history. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When I started to fill in that chart the family knew a few generations – now we have records on over 70,000 ancestors and cousins in the family computer and I now have “cousins” from all parts of the world. <\/span><\/strong>
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It has been fun. Over the past 43 years I have taught workshops and given presentations in 37 States & was a keynote speaker at the first genealogy conference in China. I have written over 20 books and many, many articles that were published in national, state and local – genealogy, library and archival journals.<\/span><\/strong>
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And the capstone has been the opportunity to be the “Father” of GenealogyBank<\/a> – and to watch it grow into an essential core genealogy online service – with over 3,500 newspapers you just won’t find anywhere else – easy access to more than 1 billion of our ancestors & cousins. <\/span><\/strong>
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It’s a great day for genealogy and a great day for me too!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a great day for genealogy! And, it’s a particularly good day for me too!Today marks exactly 43 years since I started working in genealogy. Wow, it’s been fun. It was 26 July 1965 – in Stamford, CT – George B. Everton, Sr. (1904-1996) and his wife Ellen (Nielsen) Everton (1902-1987) were conducting a genealogy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[2605,5,870,469,521,868,1129,1656,1762,863,12,1661,867,4873,2191,1829,2490,1734,1874,869,27,5426,5457],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestors","tag-books","tag-carter-drive","tag-china","tag-ct","tag-edith-nettleton","tag-family","tag-family-tree","tag-father","tag-ferguson-library","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-guilford-free-library","tag-hall","tag-history","tag-in","tag-journals","tag-me","tag-ms","tag-nettleton-historical-room","tag-newspapers","tag-records","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85337,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/85337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}