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Michael John Neill's genealogy website. Things that cross my path, general research suggestions, and whatever else ...with a little bit of attitude. I don't post "news" just to post it, never post a press release (edited or otherwise), don't feign excitement, and pretty much say what I think.

28 March 2008

Computer Genealogy Workshop-Carthage, IL 26 April 2008

Carl Sandburg College in Carthage, Illinois, will be sponsoring a genealogy workshop on April 26 on "Free Genealogy Online." The w...

27 March 2008

Links for Princeton

Sometimes it can be difficult navigating the Ancestry.com site, so I've posted here links to the databases I'll be discussing at the...

Famous Person A is Related to Famous Person B

While I love genealogy, I am to the point where I could not care any less who a politician is related to. Many news organizations cannot ev...

26 March 2008

2010 Census Computer Troubles

CNN is reporting serious difficulties with the PDAs being used for the 2010 Census. As long as they have a handwriting requirement and archi...

18 March 2008

Newspapers at Footnote.com

Footnote.com has added more newspapers from Chicago during the 1870-1877 era. The Chicago Tribune is the paper currently being added. User...

17 March 2008

3rd Annual Salt Lake City Research Trip

Our early bird registration deadline for our trip has passed (March 15), but we still have openings for registratants on our trip to Salt La...

Footnote.com workshop in St. Charles, MO 12 April 2008

There is still room in my workshop on using Footnote.com on 12 April 2008 at the community college in St. Peters, Missouri (suburban St. Lou...

14 March 2008

Uploading Your Own Content to Footnote

I've been playing around with uploading my own content to Footnote.com . The marriage license for Asa Landon and Mrs. Mary Sargent from...

13 March 2008

Partial Pedigree Online

I have posted part of my children's pedigree charts online. As I viewed the charts, I realized that there are blanks where I do have inf...

Making Connections at Footnote

I've been playing around with Footnote.com and am especially impressed with the connecting and networking capabilities this site offers...

Playing with Family Tree Maker's websearch

I have been playing with the websearch on Family Tree Maker 2008. The websearch is best used for locating new clues or easily capturing thin...

12 March 2008

Merging on Family Tree Maker

I've been playing with Family Tree Maker. I do like the ability to "merge" sources from Ancestry.com into my Family Tree Make...

Asa Landon marries Mrs.Mary Sargent 1849

A search of the Illinois State Marriage Index indicated Asa Landon married Mrs. Mary Sargent in Winnebago County, Illinois in 1849. This c...

New York Vital Records Index Lookups

I've been reading Dick Hillebrand's blog about obtaining copies of vital records in New York. Yesterday he posted an update to inf...

11 March 2008

Genealogy Computing Week 2008 and 2009

Thanks to all who attended our 10th annual week of computer genealogy classes at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois. We had attend...

Postcard from Johann Ufkes

My cousin has sent me three more letters written by my great-great-grandparents. This time a penny postcard is included that was written by ...

10 March 2008

Accessing New York State Vital Records

Upstate New York Genealogy Blog has posted an entry on " Accessing New York State Vital Records ," with some commentary about the ...

09 March 2008

5 April 2008 Omaha, Nebraska

I'll be presenting at the Greater Omaha's Annual Conference on 5 April 2008 in Omaha, Nebraska. Topics are: Researching the Entire F...

DS on Nancy Reagan's 1954 Voter's Registration List

Nancy Regan's 1954 Voter's Registration entry for Los Angeles County, California indicates she is registered as a "DS." Th...

07 March 2008

Map Links

There are the map links from our discussion in our Family Tree Maker session today. Hargrett Rare Maps Library http://www.libs.uga.edu/darch...

04 March 2008

Civil War Pension Card Question

A participant in our workshop today on Footnote.com noticed the following Civil War pension index card. I'm curious about the referenc...

03 March 2008

Still room in Genealogy Computing Week 2008

We have started our tenth annual week of genealogy computer related classes at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois. We still have o...

25 February 2008

The Baby was Thick and Fat--Clues in 1880s Letters to Nebraska

Regular blog readers know that I recently was given digital copies of letters written by my ancestor, Lina Ufkes. Juliana Smith over at Ance...

22 February 2008

Links for DuPage Conference

I'll be speaking at the DuPage County Illinois Genealogy Conference this Saturday and thought this would be a good place to post some li...

19 February 2008

More on Searching the Family Histories at BYU

Full text searches of all the family histories at the Family History Archive at Brigham Young University can also be conducted (in addition ...

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