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The different types of marriage records that might be available for your ancestors, and the amount and kind of information they contain, will vary depending on location and time period, as well as sometimes the parties’ religion. In some localities, a marriage license may include the most details, while in a different locality and time period ..

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I have developers come to me occasionally mystified by this error messages like this: ERROR 1055 (42000): ‘<tablename>.<columnname>’ isn’t in GROUP BY What does that mean, exactly, and why is the query getting kicked back? To illustrate, let’s say we have a tabe, geodata, which has this data for all US cities–the table has just ..

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  On May 16, 1918 Congress passed an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917,  This Amendment is known to history as The Espionage Act of 1918.  Here is the text:   Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with ..

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This will tell you, sorted with most usage at top. for file in /proc/*/status ; do awk ‘/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 ” ” $3}END{ print “”}’ $file; done | sort -k 2 -n..

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MEN Adam – Adamh Aeneas/Angus – Aonghas Albert – Ailbeart Alexander/Alick/Sandy – Alasdair Allan/Alwyn/Aulay – Ailean or Amhlaidh Alpin(e) – Ailpean Alick/Alexander/Sandy – Alasdair Andrew – [Gille]Aindreas/Anndra Angus/Aeneas – Aonghas Archibald/Celistinus – Gille-Easbuig/Gillespic Archie – Eairdsidh Arthur – Art/Artair Ay/Hugh/Hugo/Odo/Otto/Eugene/Eugenius – Aodh or Uisdean or Eoghan Bartholomew – Parlan Benjamin – Bean Bernard – Bearnard ..

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aka Setting up DBeaver for use with Redshift. Step by step  Setting up DBeaver for use with Redshift is not the most intuitive thing you’ll ever do. A common misconception is that since Redshift is (sorta) built on Postgres, then a Postgres driver is the correct choice. Alas, nope. Here is a quick how-to for setting up DBeaver correctly as possible for Redshift. Here’s the standard DBeaver opening screen Right-click on your Redshift connection and choose “Edit Connection (F4)” That will present you with ..

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The authors argue that the basic length of both generations and turnings—about twenty years—derives from longstanding socially and biologically determined phases of life.[who?] This is the reason it has remained relatively constant over centuries.[80] Some have argued that rapid increases in technology in recent decades are shortening the length of a generation.[81] According to Strauss ..

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This is a step-by-step tutorial to install Python and Jupyter Notebook to Windows 10 (64 bit). Python 3.3 or greater, or Python 2.7 is required to install the Jupyter Notebook. Download Python 3.7.4 from “https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-374/” url 2. Choose and select “x86–64 executable installer” for Windows 10–64 bit computer 3. Select location to save the executable ..

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Near the town of Tunnel Springs in southwest Alabama is a feature normally reserved for more mountainous areas: a railroad tunnel, abandoned for years, and relatively easy to find. The tunnel is located up the abandoned line past the north end of what is now the Alabama Railroad. Wikipedia gives us the date of construction ..

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These are online, self-guided ways for developers wishing to gain more RDBMS understanding (or have a refresher course) in the two most ubiquitous platforms — MySQL and PostgreSQL.  I add and remove from this list from time to time as material becomes outdated or better bits are found. Disclaimer:  I didn’t have a hand in ..

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Below  is the transcript of an article in the Montgomery Advertiser of 28 March 1911 reporting the major cyclone (tornado) that swept through Monroe County the previous evening.  This is the cyclone that killed my great grandfather Stephen Talmadge Byrd and injured Eugenia Mae, leaving her widowed with four children — Lottie Mae (7), Ollie ..

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Colwell-P-Byrd-History-and-Genealogy-of-the-Byrd-Family.pdf 168 pages, originally published by Duke University Press, and digitized by The Internet Archive in 2015.  Concentrates primarily on the span between 1700-1907 and the Accomack County, Virg..

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The men of Company G of the 36 Alabama Volunteers of the CSA were from Monroe County, Alabama. Of those men, our ancestor, Isaac Byrd, is named among the muster rolls. He was a farmer when he enlisted on 17 March 1862, and only 17 years old. He wasn’t the only Byrd in the county ..

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Gotta put it somewhere. Byrds who served: CSA Byrd, A. [Allen] He died Oct 12, 1862. He enlisted Apr-1862 Marengo County AL as a private in Company E, 43rd Alabama Infantry. Byrd, Alexander C. He was born Jan 7, 1842, died after 1921. He enlisted 1862 as a private in Company F, 1st Alabama Regiment. ..

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Overview Penelope Jane DuBose b. ca. 1791 m. abt. 1805 Stephen Stuckey s/o Edmund and Edith Howell Stuckey. They received from her parents Peter and Laney Witherington Dubose a “plantation.” In 1825 when Penelope returned from caring for her grandmother (don’t know who this could be since all 4 of her grandparents died before the ..

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Cat Mash among state’s funny town names The Tuscaloosa News – Sep 28, 1991 CAT MASH — Little did a moonshiner know 40 years ago that he would wind up in state folklore as the person who named a small southwest Alabama town after a poor, unfortunate cat. Nor did a 19th century Indian know ..

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All quiet On the southern front. Town name Of the world’s five remaining old-growth longleaf pine forests, one is within the city limits of Flomaton, Alabama. Although Flomaton is located on the Florida-Alabama border and is a real, live, existing town that appears on all the maps, its identity as a Border-Name Place eluded me ..

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