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Comments (8)Coin book I have from 2008 called "The Official Red Book a Guide Book of United States Coins" by R.S. Yeoman 61st ed. Says your coin is a "half eagle" page 247 gives values. if it has no mint, it is less value than if it has "cc" so look for 2 small cc's, there were also "o" & "s" mint marks along with none. The coin should have a lady liberty head on front with date under it. Back side should have an Eagle with "FIVE D"under the feet &arrows he's holding & United States of America in capitals going around rest of edge. The motto is above the eagle's head. so that is what a real 1 should look like. The highest value in 2008 book was for unused 1 so yours has been handled & maybe damaged but gold has gone up so much. Their MS-60 is 2nd rating & was $275. 1,528,120 were made but I think from what I've read that "half eagles" are well liked by collectors. If you take it somewhere also have pics of both sides & pic of you with it on & duplicates in your car, don't go alone either. My son took a dime made into jewelry to get new little loop at top & left it for the repair & jeweler gave him a receipt but when he came back jeweler acted like he had no idea what this receipt was about & said he didn't have it & didn't know what he was talking about even tho it said lady liberty repair. My DH had made 1 for each of us. So you will get ripped off if you aren't careful. Oh, man in San Francisco makes jewelry from money & said it was not against the law to make jewelry but I think you have to have a license or something now. Mine was made many yrs ago & if it is lovely it is not defacing it. Good Luck!...See MoreTile experts, please help
Comments (44)The insurer suggested another company, one that the adjuster said was "next up on the list for referral." Apparently, contractors pay to be on a referral list. The insurer would only suggest one company and not several to select from. We went with the company that was hired by the insurer to do the clean up because we thought this company (it is a large one) would have less of a tie to the insurer and would more likely listen to the homeowner. We tried to do a due diligence for the company, talking with 3-4 previous fire damage customers and my sister looked at one or two homes of these customers. The referrals were all quite positive and the homes looked great. However, the work done in those home and for those customers was not by the same project manager who was assigned to this project. The project manager for my sister's house has not done a good job and several of his subs have been bad. In addition to this tile problem, there are other problems. The shingles on the roof are bubbling up and new flashing was only put around part of the chimney. The backsplash in the master bathroom has a 1 inch gap between the backsplash and the wall that he proposes to cover with quarter round. The casings of three doorways in a hallway are all of different heights. I think you get the picture....See MoreOpinions on this Buffet: GW Find
Comments (34)drybean, the more I see of the piece, I think you would be foolish not to keep it, especially for that price. Men can be convinced - cry if you have to!!! The piece that I bought sounds like Dorothy9's. It definately is a buffet and the top slides open to increase the size of serving area. It appealed to me because I am always looking for flat areas for display of my little pretties. Just a thought if you are torn between painting and staining - because my piece "slides" I was concerned that the paint would be compromised every time I opened it. I have decided to leave that top molding (for lack of a better term) to stay stained and I will paint the bottom of the piece. Without a doubt, I really think you need to use your powers to convince hubby. Maybe give him a day to rest before you hit him with "oh by the way". Good luck....See MoreHeads Up about the 23andMe Meltdown
Comments (10)maire, I still keep my tree at ancestry but I also have the software. I use Macavo for the search. Whatever comes up there I google using the title Macavo used. That works almost every time. Most of their stuff is out of copyright books and old newspapers. Google has a bazillion old history books and newspapers. Sometimes you have to get real creative with search terms. familysearch sometimes is a gold mine. Sometimes not. I subscribed to findmypast when they ran a $49 special a month or so ago. It hasn't proven as helpful as I had hoped. I read a lot of blogs and those people seem to know where to look for stuff so I follow any link they talk about. Individual states sometimes have good historical societies and/or the state itself sometimes has good genealogy information. Ethnic sites might have what you need. My ggrandmother who died in the hospital at Castle Garden was in the German Genealogy Group web site http://www.germangenealogygroup.com/records-search/deaths.php It takes a lot of practice, trial and error and just plain luck to find stuff, especially for free. I did send for the death certificate and paid for that but often the information is indexed on the web site. The death of my great grandmother in S.D. was indexed on their web site. I did send for it. Sometimes it's as little a a couple bucks and sometimes $25 for a mailed copy. If the index is good enough proof, don't buy the copy. But I do like to read the information on the original. Even originals have mistakes though. One place I don't think gets enough scrutiny is the original page of the census. Don't just read the index. Open the original page and read everything all the way across the page. Compare it with all the census you can find for that person. Be aware that the people in the census might have told the census taker anything. Some didn't think the government needed to know anything and answered accordingly. And sometimes the neighbors or whoever was at home answered the questions and might not have known where the people had been born so keep that in mind. I've found people I wasn't even looking for by reading the page before and the page after, too. Some historical societies and GENweb states have a limited amount of census on their site. the ancestry message boards and any other message board might connect you with someone who can help. I have the same problem as you. Either there isn't anyone else out there looking for our ancestors or they aren't looking the same places I'm looking. Finding them is a bit like pulling hen's teeth. In the long run, I've found better "cousins" by looking at the trees that my documents have been linked to. At least that way I know they are in my family. Or MIGHT be in my family. I found one a couple of days ago that uses all my ancestors for their person but that person never was in that family. They've assigned her to the wrong family. I don't know how much work they did, apparently not enough or they would have discovered there was no link. But otherwise, I have connected with cousins by following my own documents to other trees....See Morerob333 (zone 7b)
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