There are many genealogy lessons on You Tube. Below are some of those lessons. ============================= Crista Cowan ------------ Ancestry.com You Tube lessons ============================================== Some Genealogy Records Have No Names =============================================== What Do I Enter Into My Family Tree? Resolving Conflicting Evidence =============================================== Back to the Basics: Genealogy 101 ============================================ Common Mistakes in Genealogy ============================================ Common... Continue Reading →
Judd Cantrell Jr – 1927 Story – South Carolina
I saw a story in the 1927 "Herald-Journal" newspaper and thought I would put it on a tree so others could see the story. I created a tree called "Judd Cantrell Jr. hit by car 1927 SC - Family Tree". I then looked for and found other family trees that had Judd on their branches.... Continue Reading →
Slaves in New Jersey – 1882
Chronicling America Nov 1882 Slaves in New Jersey Biography of two people who were born in slavery in New Jersey, as they told it to the newspaper reporter. See below for Link to full article. Thank You. Jose from Clarkston, Michigan original newspaper link: Sacramento daily record-union. (Sacramento [Calif.]), 20 Nov. 1882. Chronicling America: Historic... Continue Reading →
Wrong Information? Thomas G Mason 1822-1914
Newspaper accounts may be wrong. Just like the web a newspaper may have the wrong information and you should verify and confirm what you read. Here is an example. This 1914 newspaper obituary says that "Mason's family came over from England after 1822, settled in Michigan and founded the town of Mason". The... Continue Reading →
Google News Archive – Info on line
Google News Archive information has been featured in many web sites; here are just a few. Google Shuts Down Ambitious Newspaper Scanning Project Dead Google News Archive Searching of Historical Newspapers Browse Hundreds of Old Newspapers in the Google News Newspaper Archive SearchReSearch Search Tips for Google News Archive ... Continue Reading →
Westport Landing
Small items in old newspapers can often give you important information for your genealogy work. For instance this 1901 Boston Evening Transcript item: Family records from Missouri may have birth or death place as Westport Landing and if you don't know your history you would not know that this was the early Kansas... Continue Reading →
Help – Update 21 Jan 2015
UPDATE: 21 Jan 2015 - I received this message from Jennifer, "here is a link to the diary. I confirmed with my great aunt, it is her fathers." https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7CgHkWFDZ4JMm80UUJxODJEOHM/view Yesterday, 28 Dec 2014 I got the following e-mail from my cousin in California. "Help Need to find family of Martin Rosenberg 338 Georgia... Continue Reading →
Tom Mooney Retires
Retirement - ...Tom Mooney started working as a genealogist and archivist for Cherokee Heritage Center on December 6, 1976... Link to web page: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/14/genealogist-who-spent-his-life-building-cherokee-archive-retires-158216
Larry Allen 1908-1975
Some lives are more exciting than others. Consider Larry Allen, Associated Press correspondent. Thank You. Jose from Clarkston, Michigan Link to newspaper: St. Petersburg Times - May 14, 1975 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VkFSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d3kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5989%2C4241863 Link to web page: http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/allen_l.htm Link to tree: Larry Allen reporter - Obit 1975 Family Tree Owner: josemunoz2546 http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/75755600/family
Ida Viola Hugerford – victim
In my last two postings; (Tangled up in the branches and Paul J. Hungerford, father or son?), I talked about the Hungerford family tree. Here is the initial newspaper story that caught my eye and prompted me to create a family tree for Ida Viola Hungerford. [Fredericksburg, Virginia newspaper] I then found another... Continue Reading →
Helen Campbell Gillette Obit 1907
Have you ever wondered how to create a tree or branch from just a few clues? Here are the steps I took to complete a branch for Helen Campbell Gillette. (Links to items are at the bottom of this posting) I found an obituary for Helen Campbell Gillette. I started a tree for her. I... Continue Reading →
Alice Packer Mitchell – Obit 1910
From one obituary that I found in a 1910 newspaper I was able to create a tree and using that tree I was able to find twelve (12) other obituaries. [Note: all links can be only be used by those who have Ancesty.com accounts.] Alice Packer Mitchell - Obit 1910 - Family Tree Name... Continue Reading →
Middle Names
When you are building your family tree, look at people’s middle names for clues. I am working on a tree that has a son by the name Arthur Rial Childs 1852-1935. I started the tree with one small 1875 obituary which had the woman’s name Mrs. Elathere Niles age 96. I found that name... Continue Reading →
Look for more
If you find a death notice for a person on your tree don’t stop looking for more. Newspapers from different locations or the same newspaper may have more information than what you found. I was working on the Pauline F Johnson Obit tree and found this notice. I looked for more. And looked for more... Continue Reading →
Pilgrims and Thanksgiving II
I can now report another successful pilgrim connection. I've connected Ames Elijah Alden to John and Priscilla Alden; 1997 to 1599. The Back Story: While working on the David Alden Family tree I looked for other Alden's in the Google News Archives and found in The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 31, 1936 the Obit for... Continue Reading →
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