Amy Dunn, a professional genealogist from Owensboro, Kentucky, posted a link to a news article about this on a discussion list for members of the Association of Professional Genealogists. A number of Fayette County, Kentucky records have surfaced. It’s one of those things that reminds us to never give up, never say we have looked […]
Last weekend we celebrated at my daughter’s in northern Minnesota. All four of the grandchildren, two of my three children and a son-in-law were together. We had a great weekend. I now have a heated cushion for my car, jewelry to wear and am supplied with wipes for hands and glassed for quite awhile. Yes, […]
The state archives in North Carolina has has completed the posting of 23,483 digital images of newspapers online at its website. They are keyword searchable! These cover a time frame from 1751 into the 1890s. The North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project website states: “In 2009, the North Carolina State Archives completed a project to digitize […]
Christmas EveUntil the early 1970s Christmas Eve was always celebrated with my Dad’s side of the family. Grandma Toots was last with us for Christmas 1965 and Grandpa Stuart didn’t pass away until 1974. We spent the early years at Grandma and Grandpa’s at 2019 Princeton in St. Paul.Then we began with one year at […]
Today’s Washington Post carries an article, “Still Going Steady” about a high school class of 1959 that includes 18 couples who are still married to each other. That’s a neat thing for future genealogists. It’s a heartwarming article for the holiday season. In October, 200 members of the Washington-Lee High School 1959 class met for […]
I watched a fascinating hour long show on CNBC tonight about Google. The show was titled “Inside the Mind of Google.” Google wasn’t created until 1998. In some ways it seems like Google has been around forever. The next times the show will run are on December 24th at 4 and 8 p.m. ET and […]
The 2010 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference is being held in Knoxville, Tennessee from 18-21 August, 2010. Who attends these conferences? People from all over the United States, Canada, and even from other countries. Among those who attend are genealogists just starting to research their families to those working on family history for decades. You […]
Today’s Washington Post carries a sobering story about a search for identity by children whose fathers have turned out to be German soldiers. As the Post says “Historians estimate that more than 800,000 children were born to German soldiers enforcing the four-year Nazi occupation of Europe, about 200,000 in France alone.” For one of the […]
Back on October 30th, I reported on the the Sequoia Genealogical Society’s collection of 7,000 books that was not going to be included in the new Tulare, California library building. Click here to read that posting. Last evening, the Tulare City Council stated support for housing the collection in the new library building. It will […]
My mother always sent Christmas cards and I loved those that arrived at our house when I was growing up. I loved to look at the return addresses and see where people lived. Very few people included a letter telling about their year and the family. Now when I receive one of those from a […]