Nancy Hendrickson's Ancestor News
Does anyone know how to draw the correct pedigree chart? This was the question I recently saw posted on the Internet and here’s the answer. First, a pedigree chart is a graphical representation of direct ancestors from generation to generation. This mean it will show a person’s direct line (grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc), but not [...]
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I’m sure you’ve seen several ads for Genealogy Bank lately. They’re one of the companies digitizing historic newspapers. According to their site, GenealogyBank’s newspaper archive features over 300 years of fully-searchable historical newspapers printed in small towns and big cities throughout the U.S. (click image to enlarge) I recently signed-up for a year’s subscription, hoping to [...]
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An old issue of the Civil War magazine, North & South, featured a cover story about the 1862 battle of Lone Jack, Missouri—the little town my ancestors moved to in the 1830s. In addition to providing details of the battle itself, the article included photos, eyewitness testimony, and a nifty graphic showing the layout of [...]
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Early American settlers traveled on coastal roads or rivers. The first real highway connected the southern and northern colonies, and hop-scotched the coastal cities of Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk and north to Boston. Photo taken near Bethania, North Carolina Later roads spread out like fingers from the coast, like the Great Valley Road into the Carolinas [...]
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One of my favorite genealogy research tools is something that can produce amazing results – – haunting used bookstores online. That’s where I’ve found incredible family tales that add flesh and blood to the names. The story I like best, hands down, is the one about how an ancestor shot a stove instead of a [...]
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