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Located in Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia, 2006

Hall Family Cemetary
Archibald 1835-1916
Amanda 1838-1894
Richard 1921-1923
Rosie 1880-98
Jane 1913

Lady Day is the Feast of the Annunciation in the Christian calendar. It falls on the 25th of March and today is often referred to as “Lady’s Day”.

The Christian day should be important to genealogists as it is one of the four traditional Irish and English quarter days. Even more important, in England, Lady Day was New Year’s Day on the Julian Calendar. The logic of using Lady Day as the beginning day of the year is that it counts the years A.D. from the moment of the conception of Jesus, the Incarnation, rather than from His birth. Incarnation was reckoned to have occurred on 25 March 0 B.C..

Beginning in 1752, England moved to the Gregorian Calendar, making 1 January the first day of the new year. And, as they say, “the rest is history”; a confused history of dates in genealogical records for the mid 1700s.

Ancestry.com

• US Census Records; birth, death and marriage records; US Immigration Collection
• Go to: www.ancestry.com

Heritage Quest

• Major electronic source for census data, family records and local histories
• Go to: http://heritagequest.com/

DAR Library Online

• DAR’s renowned research library. Includes online catalog, GRC National Index and descriptions of special collections and services
• Go to: http://www.dar.org/library/

Family Search: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Family history Library System
• Go to: www.familysearch.org

USGENWEB

• Organized lists of genealogical sites by county and state.
• Go to: www.usgenweb.com

U.S. Death Index Database

• Obituaries, cemeteries and the Social Security Death Index
• Go to: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/deathrecords.html

Dead Fred

• Searchable database containing thousands of identified photographs
• Go to: www.deadfred.com

National Archives & Records Administration

• Go to: www.archives.gov

Library of Congress        

• Go to: www.loc.gov

Cyndi’s List

• A categorized and cross-referenced index to genealogical research sites
• Go to: www.cyndislist.com

Kentucky death records are now searchable on line: http://kyvitals.com/vis/search/search.php.

Kentucy researchers have been in the forefront of Internet genealogy almost since the beginning. KYGenWeb has a web site for every county in the state of Kentucky with much helpful information.