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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 →
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 →
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 →
In the last blog post "Lester G Hansen - Ludington, Michigan", I said I would look into how the various trees, that have Hansen's on them, are connected. I created a folder to hold the various loose folders that I had to review; Hans I, James, and John Jorgen Heilsen Hansen and I used this... Continue Reading →
Here is another example of how finding one small newspaper item will lead to many other family items in the newspaper. I saw a small item in a Ludington newspaper which told of the death of Lester, and so I went looking for his obit. I found it. I took screen prints of the two... Continue Reading →
If you are like most genealogists, you have more than one tree for your family. And since you are a true genealogist you help other people with their trees, so you have their trees in your collection of family trees you've created. If you view your profile page on Ancestry you might see a list... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: From the FaceBook page we got this today (18Mar2020) Erich Martin "Relatives of both families have contacted me! I'm so happy to be able to get these pics and other things back to where they belong! Thanks everyone for all your help!" UPDATE: March 19, 2020 Erich Martin “I am in contact with a... Continue Reading →
Don't you just hate seeing those tiny newspaper items on the family tree? I don't mean tiny as few words. I mean tiny as not cropped to fit the screen. I do not hate them because you cannot read them, because you can read them, if you click on them a couple of time, the... Continue Reading →
In Ancestry dot com you will sometimes get some Source boxes on a profile page but there are no Facts to go along with the Source. This may occur when you bring in a Source for a relative of the profile person such as in this case where Mary (the mother) is mentioned in two... Continue Reading →
Before you continue I want you to know that you will be shown examples of how you should transcribe an obituary, how to label your files of items that you collect and finally how to document an information file for the tree. So this is not just a blog post about the O'Connell family, it... Continue Reading →
On 21 Jun 1914 in Oswego, New York a boat crossing a canal capsized and twelve (12) people were drowned. The twelve (12) victims came from seven different families: Adams, Crane, Dainer, Mogg, Schultz, Tibbets and Welsh. I first saw the story in The Ludington Daily newspaper and thought it was an important family tree... Continue Reading →
Plus "HOW TO" assign the home person to a tree Ancestry dot com "How To" Slide 1 of 12 1. Start of Lesson 1a. Diane has a tree and wants to know how to identify the relationship between the various people on the branches; people far away from the home person. Since it is her tree,... Continue Reading →
A tragic story in the newspaper can lead to helping others with their family trees. As readers of my blog know I review old newspaper to find obituaries, anniversaries, wedding and other interesting stories that I can build a family tree around and that I can share with the family of the person or persons... Continue Reading →
I saw this photo in a 1958 newspaper and thought I would do some research on his family. In my research I found a card catalog that I had never seen before: Associated Press Card Index to AP Stories So now I have one more place to look for old interesting newspaper stories. ================ Alberto... Continue Reading →
Once again I found one (1) obituary and with that one obit, I was able to create a tree that has 164 people on it. The obituary I found in the The Free Lance-Star was for "Mrs. Martha E Jett" who died in Stafford County, Virginia on June 11, 1950. There was only one (1)... Continue Reading →
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