It is after 10 a.m. here and I have just spent the last three hours online. I know what Fairmont Ave. in Mountain View, California looks like recently. I was able to view other places in that area where I lived in 1968. Next I viewed pictures of my homes in St. Paul. The last […]
I think I need a featured spot on the Today show similar to the Where in the World is Matt Lauer? Somehow, I doubt that the show’s producers and the viewing audience would care where I am! This past Saturday I presented an all-day seminar for the Tennessee Genealogical Society in Germantown, Tennessee, a suburb […]
The National Archives of the United Kingdom has a new partnership with S&N Genealogy Supplies that gives researchers access to online images from non-parochial and non-conformist birth, marriages, and deaths from a variety of religious denominations covering 1567- into the 19th century. A basic search can be done at no cost, but to obtain extended […]
If you need to contact me, the updated mailing and email addresses are posted online in the directories at www.apgen.org and www.bcgcertification.org. I am actually living in Zimmerman, Minnesota, but my mailing address is in Elk River. I wonder what business and personal billing items such as credit card, membership, subscriptions, and utilities I have […]
Check out online finding aids and indexes for selected Archival Holdings at NARA’s Central Plains Region (Kansas City) http://www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/finding-aids Thanks to Evie Brissette, CG, a volunteer at this branch of NARA for suggesting that I include this in the blog. She also reminds us that via NARA’s website you may submit an email inquiry for […]
Earlier this week a friend sent an email that began with the words “where are you now?” I am actually in St. Paul for the next month. This coming week is federal jury duty. This is all while I am in the midst of meeting client work and writing deadlines. As if that is not […]
Another of those memories from my long-ago youth is learning part of the poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Listen my children and you shall hear . . . begins the lengthy poem that tells about the lantern signals and other warnings Paul Revere used to warn that the British […]
I spent the last week researching at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration regional branch in Kansas City. Friday afternoon was spent on Leavenworth Prison records. Some prisoners have extensive files with names, birthplace, offense, when sentenced, aliases, previous prison/jail stays, fingerprints, letters from and about the prisoner requesting parole or a different job […]
Special Note: Unfortunately, this cruise was cancelled in June by the travel agency. A Genealogy Cruise?Late this coming autumn Fly Away Travel is hosting this perfect type of vacation. From October 27-November 3, join me and others for this event. I was a part of another genealogy cruise a couple of years ago and the […]
That is really the title. Don’t bother checking the dictionary to see what “eclectica” means — I tossed around many ideas and liked this gramatically incorrect one. This blog will not be on just one topic related to history and genealogy. It will cover a variety of topics, thus it will be eclectic. I will […]