07 Aug 2020 – Update to the Table Table of Posts (324) that are on this Blog with description of their content Blog Index update Aug 07 2020 31 Jul 2020 – Update to the Table 22 Jul 2020 – Update to this blog post text. Sep 2018 – Update to the Blog Post Log… Continue reading Index of Blog Posts
My son
Link to memorial page for Juan Jose: https://juanjosemunoztodd.wordpress.com/ Born: 06 Aug 1984 – Died: 12 Apr 2015 Juan Jose Munoz, age 30 born: 06 August 1984, in Lansing, Michigan died: 12 April 2015, in Pueblo, Colorado, at Colorado State University father: Jose Antonio Munoz mother: Lorraine Omega Todd I wanted to provide a web site for Juan… Continue reading My son
How To Work with Google News Archive
Step by step lesson on how to work with the huge Google News Archive collection.
How To Fix long location names and link information to a web page.
1. Whenever you come across a long location name on a person birth or death date make sure it is the correct information. Many times, the records that populate that information comes from old records that have the old town, city, or state name. To correct that long place name and to still have the… Continue reading How To Fix long location names and link information to a web page.
Report the error to Ancestry
Genealogy – Report the problem so that the index gets fixed. I am working on a tree for a lady in Texas and came across a 1880 census that didn’t make sense (no pun intended). First of all the translation for the guys name was all wrongso I put in an update saying that the… Continue reading Report the error to Ancestry
City Directory – Pennsylvania – McAleer
City Directory can show you where your family lived and what their occupation was, so learn how to use the City Directories. Here is a short slide presentation looking for the McAleer family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during the 1890’s, I am using the Ancestry dot com collection of City Directories. Here is what the YEAR… Continue reading City Directory – Pennsylvania – McAleer
Maine Newspaper collection in Google News Archive
Here are the newspapers that were published in Maine – Sample: Alphabetical order State, Town name and Newspaper name Correction 16Mar2014 Maine -20 Maine – Bangor Maine – Biddeford Maine – Biddeford – in French Maine – Biddeford Bangor Daily News8,359 issuesNov 28, 1908 – Dec 31, 2008 Nov 28,1980 not… Continue reading Maine Newspaper collection in Google News Archive
Father John Francis Kenny –
03 Feb 1921 – 07 Sep 2006 Father John Francis Kenny, born: 03 Feb., 1921in Wichita, Kansas died: 07 Sept. 2006in Lakewood, Washington Father Kenny was ordained to the Catholic Priesthood on Dec. 21, 1946and served in the Wichita Dioceseand the Army until his retirement from Madigan Hospital at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He… Continue reading Father John Francis Kenny –
Canada – Saskatchewan – Newspapers in Google News Archive Collection
Below is a list of the newspapers from Saskatchewan, Canada that can be found in the Google News Archive Collection. The Leader-Post15,637 issuesMay 1, 1930 – Jan 31, 1987 The Morning Leader6,246 issuesOct 21, 1901 – Apr 30, 1930 The Qu’Appelle Progress767 issuesNov 27, 1885 – Dec 27, 1900 The Qu’Appelle Vidette499 issuesOct 23, 1884… Continue reading Canada – Saskatchewan – Newspapers in Google News Archive Collection
UK deed July 1650 – Bostwick
Items in old newspapers may give excellent data such as names and dates that will help you enhance your family tree, to levels you would have taken many years to acquire. Here is an example where someone (Arthur Bostwick) gives an old deed to the state library and the deed has names and dates that… Continue reading UK deed July 1650 – Bostwick
School Interrupted 1918
A small item in the old newspaper can give you insight into the life of your ancestor. Here is an item in a November 1918 school newspaper, that tells us that Claire Kilgore will not be coming back to school because her father has died. This small item gives information that might not be known… Continue reading School Interrupted 1918
Volcano Drama in New Zealand
Some times I come across an item that is so well written and has a captivating story that I must presented as is; a re-post. This is such a story. It is about the December 9th 2019 volcano eruption that occurred in New Zealand. It reminded me of what happened in the 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake… Continue reading Volcano Drama in New Zealand
Albany, Georgia – obituaries – April 1999
Genealogy30 names in two pages of newspaper: Allen, Baisden, Birchett, Bishop, Bridges, Brown, Butler, Cloud, Craig, Davis, Fowler, Griffin, Harper, Higgs, Johnson, Jones, Lewis, Melix, Meyer, Morris, Phillips, Rich, Seaver, Smith, Solomon, Span, Tillery, Wehlitz, Wilcher, Williams Location, Newspaper name, Date and Link, followed by full name and age of person and a screen print… Continue reading Albany, Georgia – obituaries – April 1999
One obit yields a dozen – Kirkpatrick Kirk – Michigan
Don’t you just hate it when the newspaper item says Mrs. instead of the woman’s first name? I know I’ve posted about this before but this post is different because it took me a long time to find Mrs Charles Beattie first name. Normally I can find the woman’s name within the obituary or on… Continue reading One obit yields a dozen – Kirkpatrick Kirk – Michigan
Brick wall – VanPaemel wed DeGrande – Belgium/Michigan
It was a foggy, cold, windy night and out of the inky blackness appeared this sultry mysterious woman, wearing a silk cyan face mask. She came right up to me and stopped a safe 6 feet from me and in a seductive voice whispered, “Are you a genealogist?” I looked right into those piercing jet… Continue reading Brick wall – VanPaemel wed DeGrande – Belgium/Michigan
City Directory – How To – make a text file – 1938 – Indiana
When you find your ancestor’s name in a City Directory make sure you capture all the people with the last name and not just your relative. For instance the family name: “DeCloedt” on this 1938, City Directory, from Mishawaka, Indiana. As you can see above there are many people with the same last name “DeCloedt”… Continue reading City Directory – How To – make a text file – 1938 – Indiana
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Who is Mrs Elmer Hile? – Michigan – 1927
Don’t you just hate it when the newspaper item has the woman’s name as Mrs., and not her given name? I ran into that problem while working on a Sep 1927 news story on the Ludingtion, Michigan newspaper. Here is the story I saw. The News Item: Notice that here we have the full item… Continue reading Who is Mrs Elmer Hile? – Michigan – 1927