Genealogy can be fun and educational | Learn how to use old newspapers to build a family tree | Enhanced Google News Archive List |
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 →
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 this 1938, City Directory, from Mishawaka, Indiana. As you can see above there are many people with the same last name "DeCloedt"... 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 →
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 single date. On one of the blog post screen prints I circles a name on the obit page, Mr Bynum: After I... 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 newspaper. The following case will show you what to look for. I was doing some genealogy research and came across a Newspaper... 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 →
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 census. We can also find a death index; an INDEX that gives so little information for his death that it is almost... 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 →
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 family tree owner that might like the information for their tree. I found many family trees for the Tyring family and sent... Continue Reading →
Here is a lesson on How To copy records from Family Search on to a computer. Update 22 Apr 2020: Thanks to Cathy Meder-Dempsey of Genealogy Bloggers I learned a new way of copying the text record from Family Search which copies text and source info. I had been highlighting the text and then pasting it but now... Continue Reading →
Missouri 34 Alphabetical order State, Town name and Newspaper name Update 07July 2013 Correction of 1808 – that year is really 1898 Missouri - 34 Missouri - Canton Missouri – Cape Girardeau Missouri – Cape Girardeau Missouri – Cape Girardeau Press-News Journal 82 issues Apr 6, 2006 - Apr 16, 2009... Continue Reading →
UPDATED: April 11, 2020 This is not a genealogy blog post, but it is an important post that should be viewed by a wider audience. In this blog post you will find a collection of videos, all showing how to make Face Masks and Headbands. Each video has its own take on how to make... 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 →
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