One of my favorite genealogy pursuits is haunting used bookstores online. That’s because I’ve found some incredible family tales in old books. The one I like best, hands down, is the one about how an ancestor shot a stove instead of a buffalo. You gotta love it. A few years ago, after doing some Moravian [...]
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I’ve talked to frustrated genealogists who couldn’t find a Website mentioned in magazine or back issue of a newsletter. As you know, Website addresses (URLs) can change at a minute’s notice. In some instances, site owners simply move their pages to a new host; in others, they may rename a page, or incorporate information into [...]
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Pam Journey, a genealogy friend of mine, is a whiz at organizing her records. Pam can look up any source citation on her genealogy software, then walk over to her massive collection of three-ring binders and turn straight to the original record. I should be so lucky. This year, in yet another attempt to organize [...]
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I have a beautiful Valentine sent to my grandmother from her younger sister, dating from around 1915-1920. Although the card is more than 80 years old, the color is still vivid and the “lace” paper in fairly good condition. When I got the card, I went onto the ‘Net to see if I could find [...]
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When my sister and I traveled through Nebraska, we stopped at the North Platte Valley Museumin Gering. The museum is a short distance from Scotts Bluff–a major landmark on the Oregon Trail. The museum itself, although small, was one of the best I’ve ever seen for displaying local history. The main building was filled with [...]
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Who hasn’t dreamed of visiting an ancestral village in Europe or Asia? I know I have. Wouldn’t it be fun to walk the streets your ancestor walked, or actually stand in a house they built? Thanks to a book I found on my Shore family line, I know the location of an ancestral home in [...]
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As much as I love Internet genealogy, I have fond memories of a trip to the Putnam County and Sullivan County, Missouri courthouses, looking for information on my Knox ancestors. Call me a digital traitor (!) but nothing can compare to on-site research, particularly in old courthouses. The amount of genealogical information sitting in county [...]
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