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I would like to help and give some advise on genealogy. I have been doing this now for 6 yrs. I have learned that people helping people makes this hobby what it is today. I've also learned that this hobby becomes a passion as you become more involved. Its your family history that should be passed on to future generations. Who are your relations of the past. Its something to think about.
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Please always remember this.
Don't lose sight of the fact that although there may be only ONE of you and you may have only had 2 parents and 4 grandparents, you had 8 great grandparents, 16 gg grandparents, 32 ggg grandparents, 64 gggg grandparents 128 ggggg grandparents etc.
Never ASSUME. Document everything. Keep a careful record of every search you make even if you find nothing. It will save you from searching the same records again at a later stage.
If you can't prove it leave it out of your family tree--many of us do not verify GET THE PROOF.
Never ASSUME. Document everything. Keep a careful record of every search you make even if you find nothing. It will save you from searching the same records again at a later stage.
If you can't prove it leave it out of your family tree--many of us do not verify GET THE PROOF.
about 1 month ago
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Beating Your Head on Brick Walls
Somewhere "out there" is the message I was working. I was previewing it, hit backspace and whoosh it was gone never to be seen again.......
I have been doing genealogy for 8 or 9 years. Long enough to hit some impenatrable brick walls. One my ggg grandparents in western NY state. I have their name, and the maiden name of the ggg grandmother, the names of my gg grandfather and his brother, where they were born and the birthdate but I can find nothing further back. The other brick wall is the names of the parents of another g grandfather who was born in IL.
I live in Wyoming so the distance to travel is quite far and I do not have the time so I rely on the internet, the local library and the local LDS church. Thanks to those resources I have found some great info. Just not the answers to the brick walls.
I had never heard of the familysearch magazine so will go on line and see about it. Any avenue to follow.
.......if there are mistakes in typing this I apologize but I am staying away from that preview button.LoL
I have been doing genealogy for 8 or 9 years. Long enough to hit some impenatrable brick walls. One my ggg grandparents in western NY state. I have their name, and the maiden name of the ggg grandmother, the names of my gg grandfather and his brother, where they were born and the birthdate but I can find nothing further back. The other brick wall is the names of the parents of another g grandfather who was born in IL.
I live in Wyoming so the distance to travel is quite far and I do not have the time so I rely on the internet, the local library and the local LDS church. Thanks to those resources I have found some great info. Just not the answers to the brick walls.
I had never heard of the familysearch magazine so will go on line and see about it. Any avenue to follow.
.......if there are mistakes in typing this I apologize but I am staying away from that preview button.LoL
New to the Group
I've been doing genealogy for about 15 years or so. While I don't have as much time to devote to searching these days, I did make some wonderful discoveries last year that I thought I'd share. My Grandfather on my Mom's side was raised in an orphanage. Before he passed, he told one of my Aunts that his Mother was institutionalized and his Father was a drunk - and that he met him when he was in his early 20's. I got his parent's names from his SSN application years ago and did find his Mother in an institution in the 1920 Census Records. Years went by and I found nothing more. Last year I found Obituraries for both his Mother and Father. I also found several newspaper articles mentioning his Father as an alcholic. His Father's obit mentioned a brother. I've since found two other brothers. But the best find was an actual picture of my Great Grandmother that was taken shortly after she was institutionalized. Lots of other official records have been obtained. Kind of exciting to make these discoveries.
Fantastic Find
My brother was looking for some very important papers he needed regarding his coming retirement. One box he started looking through was stuff he had forgotten about. He found three latters written by different members of our family. All were dated in the 40's written by two aunts to our father who was in the US Navy at the time. Also a year book dated 1925/26 from our dads high school days was found with some neat pictures of dad and classmates. The school is The Wasatch Academy in Mount Pleasant, Utah. Man "O" Man what a find. Now -- back to reseaching with new info at hand. Be safe and remember to have fun climbing your family tree, Mike
What the heck does it mean?
Here in the first reply are some genealogy terms and abbreviations you may see while doing your research:
101 Sites on the Web
Hi Folks,
I recieved my copy of the Family Tree Magazine (Sept 2008 issue) three days ago and I'm going to do something I don't normally do and thats recommend a product. If you go to a news stand or store this weekend I would like to suggest that you pick-up this issue of the mag. If for anything just one article "101 Best Web Sites" will justify the time and cost. Following is a sample of the artical. This was posted on the blog yesterday. The Family Tree Magazine has always been a good source for help and ideas regarding Genealogy and climbing the FAMILY TREE.
New Blog Series: 101 Best Web Sites Profiles
Posted by Diane
I’ll be highlighting two of our 101 Best Web Sites for genealogy (selected at random) each week right here. My math skills aren’t the greatest, but I figure at this rate, we’ll finish up in time to start next year’s list.
Let’s start with Documenting the American South, where the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill library publishes digitized texts, images and audio files.
We called this site one of the “Best for African-American Researchers” because of its strong African-American collections, including information on slavery, biographies and Southern black churches. But it covers a wide range of Southern history topics, including literature, North Carolinians in World War I, and southerners’ letters and other writings.
Next up: Family History Online, a fee-based site that lets you search records compiled by family history societies in England, Wales and Australia. The 67 million records now available include parish registers, memorial inscriptions, censuses, poor law documents and more. (See a breakdown by place under the Databases menu.)
You’ll need to register with the site to search the name index. You see limited results for free; the cost to view full record entries starts at 5 pounds (that's about $10).
The September 2008 Family Tree Magazine (which hits newsstands next week) has the full 101 Best Web Sites list, or click through to them all from FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
And you can visit our Forum to nominate your favorite family history site for honors in 2009.
Family Tree Magazine articles | Genealogy Web Sites
I recieved my copy of the Family Tree Magazine (Sept 2008 issue) three days ago and I'm going to do something I don't normally do and thats recommend a product. If you go to a news stand or store this weekend I would like to suggest that you pick-up this issue of the mag. If for anything just one article "101 Best Web Sites" will justify the time and cost. Following is a sample of the artical. This was posted on the blog yesterday. The Family Tree Magazine has always been a good source for help and ideas regarding Genealogy and climbing the FAMILY TREE.
New Blog Series: 101 Best Web Sites Profiles
Posted by Diane
I’ll be highlighting two of our 101 Best Web Sites for genealogy (selected at random) each week right here. My math skills aren’t the greatest, but I figure at this rate, we’ll finish up in time to start next year’s list.
Let’s start with Documenting the American South, where the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill library publishes digitized texts, images and audio files.
We called this site one of the “Best for African-American Researchers” because of its strong African-American collections, including information on slavery, biographies and Southern black churches. But it covers a wide range of Southern history topics, including literature, North Carolinians in World War I, and southerners’ letters and other writings.
Next up: Family History Online, a fee-based site that lets you search records compiled by family history societies in England, Wales and Australia. The 67 million records now available include parish registers, memorial inscriptions, censuses, poor law documents and more. (See a breakdown by place under the Databases menu.)
You’ll need to register with the site to search the name index. You see limited results for free; the cost to view full record entries starts at 5 pounds (that's about $10).
The September 2008 Family Tree Magazine (which hits newsstands next week) has the full 101 Best Web Sites list, or click through to them all from FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
And you can visit our Forum to nominate your favorite family history site for honors in 2009.
Family Tree Magazine articles | Genealogy Web Sites
Resources by State
Richard Eastman, who publishes Eastman's On-line Genealogy Newsletter, had a brief article today that linked me to a national site for state resources (see link). As Dick points out, most resources aren't on line yet, but this is a great place to learn what is available in an individual state's holdings. Hope it helps loosen a few bricks in your genealogical walls.
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Down but not out
Many of you do not know that about 3 weeks ago, I got bit my a DEER TICK.
Needless to say YES---LYMES > I have been on the medication and very down but I am glad to say I am getting strenght and vigor back and hope to be my old self soon.
Needless to say YES---LYMES > I have been on the medication and very down but I am glad to say I am getting strenght and vigor back and hope to be my old self soon.
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET....
I bet most of you like me as a boy, heard about skeletons in the closet, and wondered whose bones were in there. I never could find any. Not in our house, or at grandmas house, or even at aunties house. As I grew into a youngman, I did know there was trouble plenty in my families history, and there seemed to be no answers because everyone was apparently hiding something. After many of my elders were passed, and I myself had become older, and mostly when my wife was killed on 24 June 2006, I began to be determined to build our families combined histories for our children and children's children........I subscribed to Ancestry.com for a year and began the journey of family history discovery; it was a long and often exciting, yet also often depressing trip through historical documents. Often scant and vague and misleading, occasionally rich in before unknown to me specifics of who I am and who I am related to.
I was finally able to see the truth of who my fathers side of the family was, making connections clear back to the beginning of the Revolutionary War. That was cool, and I now know for certain my family has been American from our historical beginning. But also along the way, I found obstacle after obstacle connecting pieces together on my mothers side whom I had thought I knew the most about. Instead I only discovered lie after lie, and deception at every turn. It really hurt to learn after connnecting document after document, that the real reason I never got to know my maternal grandfather is because he was a philanderer and molested his own daughter, my own mother in childhood. So finally all the questions of why she had such a problematic life, and was not a good wife to my father, was revealed at last. She had no more control of her adult life then the man in the moon. So sad she died a bag lady in a phone booth on Hollywood Blvd. She seems never to have known where to belong..........Of her six children that lived to adult hood, only two of us have our heads on fairly straight now. Of a dozen grandchildren, only five seem to be free of alcoholism or drug abuse. So far as I know, of twelve grt.grandchildren none are broken by abuse of our times and culture. The far flung effects of child abuse carry on sometimes for generations I have reluctanly learned the hard way and hard truth. Are these truths of family history neccessary to understand our forebears and or the problems of being humans?????I don't really know, and I am not sure I wish to tell the young ones. So I am hiding SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET............
I was finally able to see the truth of who my fathers side of the family was, making connections clear back to the beginning of the Revolutionary War. That was cool, and I now know for certain my family has been American from our historical beginning. But also along the way, I found obstacle after obstacle connecting pieces together on my mothers side whom I had thought I knew the most about. Instead I only discovered lie after lie, and deception at every turn. It really hurt to learn after connnecting document after document, that the real reason I never got to know my maternal grandfather is because he was a philanderer and molested his own daughter, my own mother in childhood. So finally all the questions of why she had such a problematic life, and was not a good wife to my father, was revealed at last. She had no more control of her adult life then the man in the moon. So sad she died a bag lady in a phone booth on Hollywood Blvd. She seems never to have known where to belong..........Of her six children that lived to adult hood, only two of us have our heads on fairly straight now. Of a dozen grandchildren, only five seem to be free of alcoholism or drug abuse. So far as I know, of twelve grt.grandchildren none are broken by abuse of our times and culture. The far flung effects of child abuse carry on sometimes for generations I have reluctanly learned the hard way and hard truth. Are these truths of family history neccessary to understand our forebears and or the problems of being humans?????I don't really know, and I am not sure I wish to tell the young ones. So I am hiding SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET............
Who I would Eat Lunch With
In Germany they were Koenigs. In America, they became Kings. They were evidently a strong bunch. There is a 1811 Bible entry that has my ancestor Esther, walking across a river with her husband. Tied on her back was her son (my great-great-great grandfather), and on her shoulders a bushel of cornflour on each side. She was 'big like a man and pretty as a flower'. I would love to meet her.
Just a thought
If you had a chance to invite someone in your family tree to dinner who would you invite and what would you like to talk about? What ???'s would you ask? Let all of us know what helped in this decision and why.
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