Today’s press release from Ireland stated that on July 8th I will receive a special birthday gift! Well, those aren’t the exact words of the press release. However, I know that it was scheduled for that day just for my birthday! As the press release stated: “National Library of Ireland Announces Launch Date for New […]
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 […]
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 […]
On St. Patrick’s Day, I am Irish. I am Irish all year round due to several ancestors from Ireland. All my Irish blood is from my Mom’s forebears. Her mother was 1/2 Irish and her father was totally Irish. Instead of having a party, I want to spend the evening with you. I am putting […]
I love statistics and tonight I had a thought about the genealogical organizations for which I am doing webinars or in-person presentations in the upcoming months. I checked and found that eight of the organizations are members of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. That’s an impressive number that understand the importance of having a strong […]
It’s a common theme. I am a guilty party, too. Not on all of these, but partially on some. Are you? Saying you have a brick wall because you have been looking everywhere online for info about a certain family member. It’s not a “brick wall” unless you have also been to every possible archive, […]
It’s time to think about summer. It can’t come fast enough for me. Summer means the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh. It’s a week of courses to help advance your family history knowledge, methodology, and circle of genealogy colleagues. I am coordinating the intermediate course again. It is offered during the second week of GRIP, […]