While working with some old newspapers I came across an obituary for a Tennie G Runner. I read the obit and thought it would be fun to try and find a family for her. I did a search on Ancestry dot com and got a hint for several family trees for Tennie and I brought... Continue Reading →
News Item Scans – Find an alternative
Genealogy - Scanned newspaper items - If you find a news item for your ancestor but it is a blurry copy in the particular newspaper collection, see if you can find a better quality one in some other collection. For example; I was given a hint for the Obit in the Ancestry Newspaper collection and... Continue Reading →
Dutch Genealogy Help
I came across the following blog that might be of interest to those of you who have Dutch ancestry - Dutch Genealogy - https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/?fbclid=IwAR2AiEiWX72tJlXL7omIQUiG3n7BePiRo0UBSJr1K9-hyiYH6wnQOIBA2ws I hope the blog posts will help you. Thanks
William H. Meers
Here is a brief history about the life of William H. Meers. I was looking at some old newspapers, when I came across a story about two men being traded in a prisoner exchange; one man was from USA and was in a Mexican jail and the other was a Mexican man who was in... Continue Reading →
How To Fix long location names and link information to a web page.
1. Whenever you come across a long location name on a person birth or death date make sure it is the correct information. Many times, the records that populate that information comes from old records that have the old town, city, or state name. To correct that long place name and to still have the... Continue Reading →
Report the error to Ancestry
Genealogy - Report the problem so that the index gets fixed. I am working on a tree for a lady in Texas and came across a 1880 census that didn't make sense (no pun intended). First of all the translation for the guys name was all wrongso I put in an update saying that the... Continue Reading →
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 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during the 1890's, I am using the Ancestry dot com collection of City Directories. Here is what the YEAR... Continue Reading →
Maine Newspaper collection in Google News Archive
Here are the newspapers that were published in Maine - Sample: Alphabetical order State, Town name and Newspaper name Correction 16Mar2014 Maine -20 Maine – BangorMaine - BiddefordMaine – Biddeford - in FrenchMaine - BiddefordBangor Daily News8,359 issuesNov 28, 1908 - Dec 31, 2008 Nov 28,1980 not 1908Biddeford Weekly Journal1,117 issuesMar 24, 1893 - Nov... Continue Reading →
Father John Francis Kenny –
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. 21, 1946and served in the Wichita Dioceseand the Army until his retirement from Madigan Hospital at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He... Continue Reading →
Canada – Saskatchewan – Newspapers in Google News Archive Collection
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 21, 1901 - Apr 30, 1930 The Qu'Appelle Progress767 issuesNov 27, 1885 - Dec 27, 1900 The Qu'Appelle Vidette499 issuesOct 23, 1884... Continue Reading →
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 an example where someone (Arthur Bostwick) gives an old deed to the state library and the deed has names and dates that... Continue Reading →
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 will not be coming back to school because her father has died. This small item gives information that might not be known... 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 the December 9th 2019 volcano eruption that occurred in New Zealand. It reminded me of what happened in the 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake... 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 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 →
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 safe 6 feet from me and in a seductive voice whispered, “Are you a genealogist?” I looked right into those piercing jet... Continue Reading →
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