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Christine on Genealogy Time Travellers (U.K. & World Wide) FaceBook group page asked the following: "HELP NEEDED! Can anyone do a 'mirror' reading of this page please and tell us what it says. I can see some words like Register, London and the date 1749." Below are steps Christine can take to do what she... Continue Reading →
Lisa, one of the members in the FaceBook group; "Otsego County, New York, History and Genealogy", asked for help with her tree. I created a tree on Ancestry dot com to help find records through hints. I was able to find obits on the Hanlon family FindAGrave memorial pages and in order to keep track... Continue Reading →
I replied to a FB query with a detailed explanation and thought it would be a good "How To" blog post for my readers. Here is a mini lesson on what to look for on census pages. I had posted on the FB group page "Unravelling Your Roots" a screen print of this 1930 census... Continue Reading →
I posted the following on FaceBook and got many comments on the topic; both pro and con, so I thought I would share it with a different audience. For my genealogy friends - Tags on trees - I came across an interesting tag on a family tree and I thought others might like to see... Continue Reading →
As my readers know from past blog posts, I encourage genealogist to continue looking for newspaper items, even when nothing comes up in a search. I have found many items about the particular family members in the local newspaper once I found the initial item but I never realized how many items I had accumulated... Continue Reading →
I wanted to post this on my blog, so that it could get a larger audience. On the FaceBook group web page; Pantsuit Nation, Carla wrote the following: Carla Vernon shared a link. 14 Aug 2017 Mendota, MN "George Carlin once said: "I like it when a flower, or a little tuft of grass grows... Continue Reading →
A FaceBook user asked me if one can do a search on the Google News Archive Collection. I put together two screen prints for demo. and wrote the following "How To". Once you are on a newspaper page, you can do a search in the box shown on the photo screen of page. I typed... Continue Reading →
I was working on Face Book adding links to some genealogy group pages when I had an idea. Why not post the links to the German newspaper, I have on my Google News Archive Enhanced collection. I remember marking some newspapers as being published in German but I didn't know exactly in which states they... Continue Reading →
I saw this link on a Michigan FaceBook genealogy group page and thought others would like to see it. https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/Pages/Michigan-Digital-Newspaper-Portal.aspx I will have to so some work on this and include only the free web sites. Maybe this will be my next project. Thank You.
For my genealogy friends -- on a FaceBook closed genealogy group page, a member asked a question about "Ancestry dot com search results". She complained that she is not getting what she needs when she does a search; she gets "too many far off" results. Her question hit a HOT button because there are 60+... Continue Reading →
Here is what the FaceBook Genealogy group pages can do for YOU. Besides posts of old photos and posts of people asking for help with a brick wall, a FaceBook group page can provide the many additional sets of eyes, to help answer your questions. In the example below you will see 16+ people replied... Continue Reading →
Here is a re-post of an excellent article by Emily Bingham. "How each county in Michigan got its name" http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/02/how_each_county_in_michigan_go.html I hope this give you new information to help you understand the history of the state of Michigan. Thank You. Jose from Clarkston, Michigan
Once again someone has written a better blog piece than what I could have given you, so here is Amy Johnson Crow blog piece: http://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/2017/01/04/truth-ancestrys-hints/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare
FaceBook Groups can be a big help when you come up against a brick wall on your family history or tree. I found a small item in a 1942 newspaper which had very little information but it had a nice photo of the person, and his story was sad. I thought I would try to... Continue Reading →
Helen Louise Blue Bowen - FB query - Aug 2016 - Indiana In my last posting “Process I” I told you I would give you the full detailed step by step process I used to find the death date for Helen Louise Blue Bowen. What follows is a complete step by step process with details... Continue Reading →
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