I love to read news stories, obituaries, and press releases that mention words such as archives, indexes, genealogy, genealogical . . . you get the idea. I will continue to pass along such articles when I come across them. A long-time friend died this week. Patrick Chandler, along with his late wife, Dorothy, was a […]
Leland Meitzler asked me to post this press release for my readers. New Online Edition of Everton’s Genealogical Helper will debut July 1! Subscribe today for only $10.00! LOGAN, Utah, June 12, 2008. Genealogy Online, Inc., publisher of Everton’s Genealogical Helper, today, announced the publication of the Genealogical Helper in an Online Edition. The Online […]
A colleague from Massachusetts, Christine Sweet-Hart, posted an amazing link on a professional genealogists’ discussion list. That link is to Curious Expeditions and the pictures of libraries and books is literally thrilling. I have only been to six of those libraries. Christine warned that viewing this site would make us grab our passport and run […]
On one of the news services I subscribe to, I ran across an interesting article “South Africa: Genealogy Project to Connect Family History.” Click on this article title for the whole story. It comes from BuaNews (Tshwane) and states that “KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sibusiso Ndebele is to officially launch the Family Tree Project aimed at facilitating […]
It was dark and dreary here today and I hope that didn’t ruin any of the Memorial Day Celebrations. This morning I spoke with my Dad and said he was my favorite veteran. Dad served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He was in the 1103rd Army Air Forces Base Unit.He was […]
This afternoon, I was doing some research in the digitized books at Google Books. I found some thing about my German family I hadn’t come across before. I knew that my step-Great Great Great Grandfather Gottfried Rohr and my Great Great Granduncle Frederick Fischer ran a tailoring establishment/clothing store in Watertown, Wisconsin. What I found […]
Technology. It adds so much to our lives, including the weight of the things we take along with us. I am writing this as I sit at a research table on the second floor of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In the last 12 months I have been here three times. […]
April showers bring May flowers. The flowers should be amazing this year. The rain in the central third of the U.S. has been beyond believable. I left home to drive to St. Louis to speak at the St. Louis Genealogical Society Conference this Saturday. What did I leave behind in Minnesota? My residence in Zimmerman […]
So many interesting people to talk with So many interesting people to just watch Teaching genealogists in a relaxed setting and then sitting around talking genealogy at lunch (even better watching the people who hear the word genealogy and want to join the group — but, it’s too late, you have to be a part […]