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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Family Tree – Elbert “Bert” Bynum
On the last blog post Newspapers and Their Dates – Alabama, I talked about the dates on old newspaper and how on some scanned newspapers there are more than one issue under a… Continue reading
Newspapers and their dates – Alabama
While working with the Google News Archive collection you will have to be careful to pay attention to the date that appears on the scan title and the date that appears on actual… Continue reading
Hansen Family Trees
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… Continue reading
Lester G Hansen – Ludington Michigan
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… Continue reading
1890 census… Aargh! – Barnard McCleary
Don’t you just hate it when your ancestor comes to the USA in 1860 at age 32 and the only records you can find are the Federal census for 1870, 1880 and 1900… Continue reading
How To Create a MS Word Table for Your Family Tree List
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… Continue reading
How to transfer a list of all your trees to a table – in 4 easy steps
Capturing a small news item in an old newspaper can sometimes lead to a new blog post. I found the following small item about a 25th anniversary and tried to find some… Continue reading