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Pennington Family Genealogical Information - Material - Events
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Pennington Research AssociationPennington Family Genealogical Information - Material - Events
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We have collected several resources to help you with your genealogical research. Select from the list on the left or from the list below.
HistoryThe History of the Pennington Research Association - Part 1. A great article written by Marvin Jones, Honorary PRA Member. Part 1 discusses publications. The History of the Pennington Research Association - Part 2. A great article written by Marvin Jones, Honorary PRA Member. Part 2 discusses Family Groups. Names, Religions and Migration of the Penningtons. A very interesting article written by Robert E. Sloan. The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741 - 1799. Nine (9) documents were found containing the Pennington name. This is a short article about Larcena Ann Pennington and how she survived the attack. Larcena Ann Pennington was born on June 10, 1837 in TN. She died on March 31, 1913 in Tucson, Pima Co., AZ. She was buried in Tucson, Pima Co., AZ, Evergreen Cemetery. Larcena Ann Pennington belongs to Family Group 22. Larcena
was the one who was captured by the Apaches in
Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains, south
of Tucson, repeatedly speared, knocked in the
head, thrown over a cliff and left for dead. However,
she survived 16 days alone in the mountains,
severely injured, most of her clothes taken by the
Apaches, only what wild food she might find, but
made her way back to the camp from which she was
abducted. She
recovered and lived to a ripe old age. He ordeal
is well-recorded in the Arizona Historical Society
in Tucson. It
took place about March, 1860. Larcena
had one child by Page, born 6 months after he was
killed, and had two children by William Fisher Scott.
She was married to John
Hemstead Page on December 24, 1859.
John
Hemstead Page died in March 1861. John Page
was ambushed by Apaches while on his way to old
Camp Grant with a load of lumber. He was
buried where he fell, at the top of the hill
beyond Saminego's ranch, on the old road; and all
that Mrs. page ever saw of him was his
handkerchief, his purse, and a lock of his hair. Larcena
Ann Pennington and John Hemstead Page had one child,
Mary Page, born in September 1861 in
AZ. She was married to William
Fisher Scott.
William
Fisher Scott was born on July 27, 1870 in
Tucson, Pima Co., AZ.
The complete story of Larcena Ann Pennington is told in the book titled "With Their Own Blood - A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers" by Virginia Culin Roberts, copyright 1992. The book can still be purchased through its' publisher, Texas Christian University Press. A copy of "With Their Own Blood - A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers" by Virginia Culin Roberts, will be donated this year by Omer C. and Ida L. Pennington to the PRA's Archive and Library at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Digital Books You Can Search and DownloadDigital Books Available Through Microsoft & Google SearchI want to share something very exciting with you - digitized books. These projects are not new, but how these projects benefit the genealogy community is becoming more evident. I spent several hours last night exploring both of these projects and downloaded several books that were of interest to my research. I was blown away at the books available. Many of them are available for you to download, free, while others can be purchased and/or it will list a library where you can check them out. When you click on the book title, it will take you to the actual page in the book and show you (highlighted) on the page/s where the name is located. In the Google search site, you can even use a search box on the page to search within the book for a more complete search. I found books dating back to the 1700's and published in England and America. I found a couple of books with details of Gamel de Penitone and his descendants as well as the story behind Muncaster Castle. There were images of the Coat of Arms as well. Enjoy! Gene Pennington (Group 7) Chairman Research Director Pennington Research Association, Inc. www.PenningtonResearch.org==================================================================================== Dick Eastman's blog at --> http://blog.eogn.com/ just posted this important message.Microsoft Books to Challenge Google Books Microsoft has launched an online library in a move to compete against Google's controversial project to digitize the world's books. Consumers benefit any time when two industry giants meet in head-to-head competition. In this case, genealogists will benefit as they have even more free genealogy and local history books to search. Microsoft launched a U.S. test version of Live Search Books a few weeks ago. The new service already has tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books, including works held by the British library and major universities in the United States and Canada. I checked Live Search Books and found several hundred genealogy books are already available, although not nearly as many as are available at Google Books. The several pages from the Microsoft site that I displayed on my computer all seemed to be crystal-clear and easily readable. I was also able to download and save entire books as PDF files. The search page on Microsoft's Live Search Books is simple and uncluttered. However, the search results are not nearly as accurate as that of Google Books. A search on "Eastman genealogy" (no quotes) on Google produces a long list of genealogy books that contain the name "Eastman" somewhere within the pages of each book. The same search on Microsoft's Live Search Books seems to produce a list of books with either word alone. In other words, it finds many genealogy books that do not contain the word "Eastman" as well as many books that do mention that name but do not have the word "genealogy" anywhere between the covers. Even with this limitation, Live Search Books is a good service for genealogists. Keep in mind that its limited search capabilities may limit its effectiveness for anyone searching for surnames that are also common English words, such as Green, Black, or Town. Microsoft has book-scanning partnerships with New York Public Library, the American Museum of Veterinary Medicine, the University of California system, and the University of Toronto, according to Microsoft project director Cliff Guren. Live Search Books "was created with copyright laws in mind," according to Guren. "It is focused on scanning and indexing out-of-copyright books or books where we have the express written consent of the copyright holder to scan them." You can search and read genealogy and local history books right now on Microsoft's Live Search Books at http://books.live.com.=================================================================================== You can do the same thing on Google's website at --> www.google.com . Go to their website and then click on "More" then click on "Books". Enter "Pennington genealogy" (no quotes) in the search box. Or you can just enter "Pennington" (no quotes) to see a long, long, long list of books in which Pennington appears.StandardsStandards for research and for queries. SourcesWhat are sources and which type of sources of proof are acceptable? HeraldryThis page contains articles about heraldry and graphic files of the Pennington Research Association's Coat of Arms that are based on the official one used by the PRA for you to use. Click here to visit our heraldry page. PresentationsPresentations given at PRA Annual Reunion/Meetings.
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