Yes, cousin Dave is correct. He reminded me in a comment on my earlier post that it wasn’t an umlaut. The “ö ” in Lindström, Minnesota is not really an umlaut. It actually has no name. It’s a special letter. The media headlines needed something to call it. Maybe drafting a German term to fill […]
It’s always smart to pre-register for a genealogy event and even smarter to do so when the early-bird discount is still in effect. Thus, I am reminding you to register no later than April 30th for the 2015 Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) Jamboree. Jamboree is always a fantastic event attended by people from all […]
It’s only three months till Debbie Mieszala, Josh Taylor, and I will be standing in front of a roomful of genealogists that will be learning more intermediate level genealogy. This is the 4th year I have coordinated this Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) course. Not quite at the intermediate level yet? We will guide […]
A collection now digitized and on Ancestry.com may prevent me from cleaning house on Monday. I had heard these records held by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) were in the process of being digitized. I regularly check the “New Records” section on my main Ancestry page and shouldn’t have done so right now […]
Umlaut: a mark placed over the top of a vowel to indicate a specific pronunciation. I see the use of umlauts in my Swedish and German research. Minnesota Department of Transportation sign rules meant the lack of the umlaut over the “o” for a sign in the town of Lindström, Minnesota. This caused a furor […]
What are you doing on April 25th? If you are in the area of Rochester, New York, why not join me and the Rochester Genealogical Society for a day-long event. I will be presenting four lectures: Developing Successful Research Habits The WPA Era: What It Created for Genealogists Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Research New York […]
Ancestry Academy has launched! I am privileged to be among the first instructors for Ancestry Academy. Choose from 15 courses to enhance your genealogical education. This is just the beginning for this new venture of Ancestry.com. These courses enable you to learn at your own pace. The sessions may be started, stopped, reviewed, and then […]
During the February 2015 FGS and RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Julian Szucs from Ancestry.com interviewed me. Julie and I have been friends and colleagues for many years. The interview is free on YouTube at http://goo.gl/qc9WYd
I am challenging myself to discover these and other links. The historical societies, libraries, and archives I mention in this series also have fantastic in-house resources for researchers. St. Cloud Times [Stearns County and area] www.griver.org/sctimes-index Obituaries index 01/02/1928 through 12/31/2013 News index 01/03/1928 through 12/31/2008 Pennington County Cemetery and obituary index [no date parameters […]
Yesterday morning one of my sisters wanted to know what nationalities we had in our background. Her two oldest grandchildren really wanted to know if they were Irish for St. Patrick’s Day. No question about that heritage as I mentioned in yesterday’s post. My maternal grandmother was 1/2 Irish. Her father was the son of […]