South Carolina Genealogy

You may have noticed that we had a 24-36 hour vanishing act. From the information I saw there was an emergency hardware replacement on our server that hosts southcarolinagenealogy.org I think this may have been the longest outage I’ve seen with our host. (Wouldn’t have enjoyed being in the server room for all of that…) Anyway, things seem to be back up and running at this point pretty well. Soon, I will be looking at a major wordpress upgrade here, but hopefully there won’t be much outward changing as I do that.

Thanks for stopping by and may you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Here is the listing of the most common baby names in 1910:

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Here is the listing of most popular baby names from 1930:

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Here are the most popular baby names from 1950:

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Here’s the listing of popular baby names from 1970:

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Here’s the list of Popular Baby Names from the year 1990:

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This is the first in a series of posts listing popular baby names. I’m alternating posts between here and my North Carolina Genealogy site. I intend to mostly cover census years, but I wanted to start with a more current list for a baseline.

2007 – popular baby names:

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So, if you’re not already thinking about Christmas gifts for your family, you probably will be soon. So, how can you work your genealogy research into gifts for the family? Let’s face it you spend many, many hours each year with your research, maybe there’s a good way you can package and give some of that to other members of your family. After all, I suspect they’re part of the reason you’re spending all this time researching, so you can tell them about their ancestors. Well, here’s an idea… cafepress.com let’s you put pictures on all sorts of products, coffee mugs, shirts, etc. One good idea might be a family picture from many years ago on a coffee cup… but there might be some better gift ideas if you dig through their site. In order to do that, you will need to sign up for an account, upload your photo(s) and choose the products you want to place it on.

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As you may have noticed I’m adding RSS feeds for the county Forums to each County page as posts accumulate there.

So, I’ve added the feed today to the Spartanburg County Genealogy page. There now should be forum feeds on 25 pages including a feed for the statewide forum and an aggregate feed for the entire forum. So…. that means we’ve now got 23 o the counties setup with a forum feed on the page which marks the halfway point!

Update 11/11–
Greenville County Genealogy now has the forum feed (and apparently I had left out forum links there originally – that’s now corrected.

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You might be interested in this history of United States Presidential Elections posted at my North Carolina Genealogy site yesterday.

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