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The FIG Tree News
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 06:07 |
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The FIG Tree News is a newsletter for genealogy researchers of the Fenton family name from all over the world. The newsletter was started in February 1994, but was suspended in July of 2000 due to a busy life with two teenagers. Now that they have both graduated, I am hoping to be able to spend more time on the website (thus the new look website).
Due to this change in software it will allow us to be more flexible and allows users to have more input directly on the website. I believe this is a great step and no researcher can truely work only on their own. We all need help from someone at one time or another. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 02:32 |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 20 February 2009 02:18 |
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We have installed a new program (phpGEDView) that will allow you to edit, view and create reports for your family tree. It will also let you share and edit family tree infromation provided by other users. You will be able to view the files without logging in, but in order to create, edit and share the files you will have to register on this portion of the site again. Maybe, eventually, it will be tied into the main site and you will have the same log-in, but not yet. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 28 February 2009 19:08 |
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Fentons Of Ardpatrick, Ireland |
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Written by Kathy Ahroon
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Friday, 04 June 2010 03:30 |
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The Potato Famine Growing potatoes in Ireland became very popular because potatoes were handy to have around, especially during times of war. The edible underground tubers were likely to escape the notice of invading troops. The growing green tops could not be set afire as could fields of wheat or barley. Even if a potato field was trampled by soldiers, the tubers would be undamaged. Armies and outlaws were not likely to take the time to dig them up. After being dug up, the potatoes could be taken directly to the kitchen to be cooked and eaten without having to be ground at a mill first. They could be stored in a root cellar for months, to be eaten in leaner times. People with very little land could still grow lots of potatoes, which was not the case with grains. Potatoes thrived in Ireland’s very poor soil, and all that was needed to plant them was a spade. The potato blight has been around as long as there have been potatoes, and there is still no cure for it. Beginning in the year 1845, Ireland’s entire potato crop failed three years in a row, causing devastating starvation and social upheaval. The potato crop failed in America at the same time it failed in Ireland. In Ireland, however, the potato was the sole food crop on which the majority of the people depended upon for nourishment. In America, corn, oats, wheat, barley and other crops were grown in sufficient amounts so that Americans had other crops to feed them.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 06 June 2010 02:58 |
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Written by Les Fenton
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Friday, 24 July 2009 22:29 |
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I have had a few questions recently about not being to have access to the forums or the guestbook. Due to the many SPAMMERS out that are out there I must require registration for all users of the website. If I didn't have those restrictions, then there would be all sorts of posts concerning sexual related websites, pharmaceuticals, and many other things that I wouldn't want to see there. As it is, I still get a lot of accounts created for that purpose, but those accounts are quickly deleted.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:20 |
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Ruth Elveda Fenton-Herriford |
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Written by Les Fenton
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Sunday, 06 June 2010 03:10 |
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Ruth Elveda (Fenton) Herriford age 93, a long time resident of Scott Lake and Centralia, passed away Thursday, June 3, at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia. Her love for us and our love for her will remain in our hearts – she will be missed.
Ruth was born to William and Laura Fenton January 31, 1917 in Billings, Montana. She and her family left Montana when Ruth was 5 years old and moved to Centralia, WA for a time and then on to the Yakima area. While visiting her sister, Alice, in Centralia the summer of 1933 she met and married Orville Herriford. She and Orville were married for 66 years when Orville passed away Jan. 2000.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 06 June 2010 03:48 |
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