Here is a blog post that has some very good tips. I hope my readers enjoy it. http://blog.devonnoellee.com/2017/07/5-steps-to-creating-cover-for-your-self.html I reviewed her blog page and found some more posts which might be of interest to my genealogy readers. http://blog.devonnoellee.com/2017/07/finally-accessing-original-german.html http://blog.devonnoellee.com/2017/06/WhichNameToUse.html
Category: Blogs
Margot Note – Write your life story
Many years ago, I wrote a text book and taught a course on “How to Write your Life’s Story”. This web site blog that I found has the same focus, helping you write your life story. I hope you enjoy it and you get a new inspiration to finally write your life story. http://www.margotnote.com/blog/2017/7/10/personalhistoryquestions
Index of Blog Posts
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
Slide show on my Blog
When you want to have a slide show on your blog do the following. Bring in your photos as a group or select a group of photos and you will get this panel: Click on Layout and you get these choices. Click on “Link To” and you get these choices. I selected slideshow… Continue reading Slide show on my Blog
Follow Blogs
On the following blog, Diane has a list of blogs she follows. You might want to take a look at them. http://www.michiganfamilytrails.com/p/blog-page_4.html Blogs I Follow Reading the work of other bloggers is not only enjoyable, it’s also educational. I take time 2-3 times a week to read what other bloggers are writing about. I always… Continue reading Follow Blogs
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 Google News Archive – Info on line
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
It’s funny how you find things just when you need them but weren’t really looking for them. I just helped out a friend who needed some help and then I went into an old blog of mine and found this. I had not been in that particular blog for over six years yet today of… Continue reading Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
The Mitchell and Patzke families
Family trees show “the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” of a family’s history. Some families have more than their share of the “Bad and Ugly” and can seem to be reliving the life of the bible story “Job”. The Mitchell and Patzke families of Oregon and Washington are connected not only by marriage but… Continue reading The Mitchell and Patzke families
Spooky – SAR
It’s Halloween so I should not be surprised about how spooky the following story seems. I have not been reading other people’s blogs lately but today I read one about immigration documents. That posting lead me to write a piece about records which contain additional information about a person. In my piece I mentioned that… Continue reading Spooky – SAR
Records, Forms and Applications
Where can I find information about a family member if I don’t have any family records available? Family records such as birth, baptism, marriage and death are very important records to have but they are not the only records that contain valuable information about the family member. Today I read a piece from the author… Continue reading Records, Forms and Applications
Link to another page
Have you ever wanted to link a posting to another one of your posts? I wrote about Emma Wickersham and then did a follow up posting on her. I made reference to the first post but I wanted to link to it. I know HTML so I could code the link into my posting but… Continue reading Link to another page
1959 Yellowstone earthquake – Revisited August 2019
Update 10 Aug 2019: see below, at end. Also updated the Provost entry on 30 Aug 2019, per the request of Jackie of California. On January 1, 2013 I posted a little story about the newspaper article concerning the 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake. (1) In preparing that blog posting I created a little tree for the… Continue reading 1959 Yellowstone earthquake – Revisited August 2019
NUMBERED AMONG THE DEAD
While helping Luanne; writer of The Family Kalamazoo (A genealogical site devoted to the history of the DeKorn and Zuidweg families of Kalamazoo); to find newspaper items about the Spanish American War; I came across an interesting item in the 1898 “Wolverine Citizen” a Flint newspaper. The item titled “NUMBERED AMONG THE DEAD”, Lieut. Ablino… Continue reading NUMBERED AMONG THE DEAD
Count the words
Have you ever had to submit a written document which required a certain number of words to be written? In school we were always given assignments such as “write two hundred words on Lincoln” or “write a five hundred word paper on the Reformation”. I remember writing the assignments and spending half the time just… Continue reading Count the words
Coosa River Project
William Patrick Lay & Alabama Power Company A story that I find in an old newspaper will often lead to another more interesting story. That is the case with the William Patrick Lay item that I found in a 1968 Gadsden, Alabama newspaper. I found this item when I was looking at the Gadsden Times… Continue reading Coosa River Project
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