The Genealogy Cruise of a lifetime will be here before we know it. From October 25-November 1, 2008 join me and a lot of other excellent, fun, intelligent, caring, and sometimes downright hilarious speakers and registrants. This is a generous group of speakers who welcome your questions and conversation. Why a June 1st deadline when […]
How much extra money do you want in your wallet to spend in the Exhibit Hall at the NGS Conference this May 14-17? If you register online today, tomorrow or on Monday, March 31st, you will save $35.00 off the conference cost after that date. You can also mail your registration if it is postmarked […]
Today’s electronic world of history, archives, and genealogy offers us many ways to learn about new offerings, finding aids, accessions, classes, indexes, and other things helpful in our family history searches. When is the last time you checked an ancestral state’s historical society or state archives website? (or of a county historical , genealogical society, […]
Want to learn more about your Irish ancestry? Eileen O’Duill, a professional genealogist based in Ireland, has some comments at Ancestry’s 24-7 Family History Circle. The 2006 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Boston had many lectures on Irish research. For downloads of 60 Irish related lectures, visit here. These lectures can be downloaded as […]
I may be a mutt as far as my ancestral origins, but the Irish far outweighs the others. My Irish blood is on on my maternal side. I know that some of my Irish lines may turn out to have some English — but I need that trip to Ireland to work on that. My […]
I received this reminder from the Minnesota Genealogical Society. MGS meetings are always enlightening. “The Minnesota Genealogical Society Spring Conference will be held March 29, 2008 at the Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minnesota. The conference offers educational seminars and exhibits to help family historians and genealogists expand their research skills.Registration begins at […]
Reuters News Service reported today that the NBC television network has purchased the U.S. rights to the “Who Do You Think You Are?” series that has been a hit on BBC for the last four years. The BBC version involved tracing the family trees of celebrities and the ratings were fantastic. In the U.S., the […]
Club as in golf. What does that have to do with genealogy? When it involves my nephew, Tim! I have two amazing nephews and an amazing niece. All are accomplished adults now and as I sit and talk with them, I have those memories of them as little kids running around. Tim was just named […]
In the 1950s I used to visit my late aunt’s in-laws. Jeannie’s husband, Jerry, lost his life during the Korean War. His parents, the Muellers, lived in Buckman, Minnesota. The joys of old fashioned living included the outhouse and the water pump. I thought pumping the water was exciting. As we drove to Buckman from […]
I knew it was coming soon — but when the call came that told me about the passing of a friend, Chuck Knuthson, it still hit hard. Chuck passed on last Wednesday, February 27th, in Roseville, California after a tough struggle with colon cancer that had spread. Those of you who met or worked with […]