Hi, I was going through my inbox and found this, did a quick lookup and found: DC Wills1921-1950 by Provine Herdman, Jacob D.E. 1925 Box 829 margy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Firtell" <joyfir@sbcglobal.net> To: <washingtondc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [WashDC] DC Research >I have never done research in DC although I hope to make a trip sometime >this coming year. I lived in Bethesda and Rockville for a short period of >time but unfortunately was not doing genealogy at that time. My 2X >ggrandfather Benjamin F. Herdman (b. 1823 in Delaware) moved to DC in the >1870s. He lived there until his death in 1907. His wife and some children >are buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, the last family member Jacob D. Herdman >died in 1927. Have found death records, but no wills. Need to get back >there! > > Joy > Napa, CA > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WASHINGTONDC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I returned to the DC area in January and have had some research opportunities. (I've been concentrating more on finding a job, and had had to spend time on finding places to live.) I lived on Capitol Hill in '79-'80, but had not yet found out how to effectively do genealogical research -- and had almost no reliable information on any of more lines more than a few generations back. When I came back to the area in 1985, I was new to _real_ genealogical research, having attended a terrific how-to workshop in late '84 -- but had little info. Before I left in late 1987, I'd acquired some information and had been to the National Archives a few times to view census microfilm and to _try_ to get my lines further back. Within five years after I left DC, I had a sizeable amount of family info almost literally dumped in my lap and had bought my first computer and gone online from home. I had fourteen years in South Carolina to acquire more genealogical info and to do research. I can say now that Washington must be in my blood: a set of great-great-grandparents moved to DC in 1910 [I've tracked several years of their lives in city directories and The Historical Washington Post, having gotten some basic info off some family info I'd had for several years.]; some of this great-great-grandmother's ancestors had lived in the Washington area and Northern Virginia before the Civil War, and two of my dad's lines were in Northern Virginia/the northern Shenandoah area in the 1700s. Not only that -- it's very, very possible my parents are related to each other through their descent from the LOVE family in western Virginia in the 1700s. (I haven't gotten confirmation on this -- YET.) I admit to being disappointed that my mother's PAYNE line is not _the_ PAYNE line from old Northern Virginia history: her Paynes are descended from an ancestor who was born in New Jersey and settled in Winchester shortly before the Revolution. I am interested in Washington-area ethnic research as I wrote my History thesis on early Lebanese immigrants to South Carolina and would like to do something similar about the 19th century immigrants who left Ottoman Syria (Syria, Lebanon, parts of modern Jordan, Israel and Turkey) and settled in Northern Virginia and DC before 1950. Many of these immigrants were Catholic and Orthodox Christian. (I wasn't able to do any research in the Catholic diocesan archives in South Carolina because it's four hours each way from where I lived: here, I can just catch public transit to the Catholic diocesan archives in Arlington. Elizabeth Whitaker Elizabeth Whitaker On 4/25/07, mbousman <mbousman7@cox.net> wrote: > > Hi, > I was going through my inbox and found this, did a quick lookup and found: > > DC Wills1921-1950 by Provine > Herdman, Jacob D.E. 1925 Box 829 > > > margy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joy Firtell" <joyfir@sbcglobal.net> > To: <washingtondc@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:13 PM > Subject: Re: [WashDC] DC Research > > > >I have never done research in DC although I hope to make a trip sometime > >this coming year. I lived in Bethesda and Rockville for a short period > of > >time but unfortunately was not doing genealogy at that time. My 2X > >ggrandfather Benjamin F. Herdman (b. 1823 in Delaware) moved to DC in the > >1870s. He lived there until his death in 1907. His wife and some > children > >are buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, the last family member Jacob D. Herdman > >died in 1927. Have found death records, but no wills. Need to get back > >there! > > > > Joy > > Napa, CA > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > WASHINGTONDC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WASHINGTONDC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I am interested in an obituary that appeared in the Washington Post on January 9 of this year for Francis Vito Fabrizio. I know I could pay to get it from the Post's website but I'd rather not since there is no familial connection. I'm just interested since he worked with my Dad. Is there anyone who has access to the 2007 newspapers and could share the obit with me? Sue Dotson

See if this link works: http://www.legacy.com/WashingtonPost/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonI d=85908289 If not, I'll send you the obit in PDF format. Actually, I can send it to you anyway offline. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: washingtondc-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:washingtondc-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Sue Dotson Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:09 PM To: washingtondc@rootsweb.com Subject: [WashDC] Recent Obituary I am interested in an obituary that appeared in the Washington Post on January 9 of this year for Francis Vito Fabrizio. I know I could pay to get it from the Post's website but I'd rather not since there is no familial connection. I'm just interested since he worked with my Dad. Is there anyone who has access to the 2007 newspapers and could share the obit with me? Sue Dotson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WASHINGTONDC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message