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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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.… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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