24 April 2008

1898 German Directory

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The actual title is Handels- und Gewerbe-Adressbuch der Provinz Hannover, des Grossherzogthums Oldenburg und des Freistaats Bremen, 1898 an...
23 April 2008

Trientje Eilts Post calligraphy

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This is part of the inscription in a book that Trientje Eilts Post (1808-1877) made for her daughter Annebken Hinrichs. The book was given t...
22 April 2008

Still Room on 3rd annual Salt Lake City Family History Research Trip

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We still have a few openings on our 3rd annual genealogical research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. We stay at ...

Annual Ft. Wayne, Indiana Genealogy Library Trip-May 2008

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There is still room in our annual Family History Research Trip to the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, beginning on May 28...
17 April 2008

Droin Collection At Ancestry.com

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Ancestry.com recently released the Droin Collection on their website. The indexing is not yet complete, but the project is quite impressive...
16 April 2008

Getting Ready for OGS

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I'll be making two presentations at the OGS Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday 19 April . Regular site visitors or readers of ...
14 April 2008

The Census Taker Cometh

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The Census Taker Cometh (originally published at Ancestry.com in 2004) It is June 3, 1860. Anna Gufferman, who is twelve years old, sees a s...
07 April 2008

Footnote workshop in St. Charles 12 April-openings

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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...

Omaha workshop attendees--land record handout

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The handout from Saturday's session on land records at the Greater Omaha Genealogical Society's annual conference had some page layo...
05 April 2008

Links and Information from Omaha Workshop

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Witter's German-English Primer LDS Research Guides the "G" section Main Family Hisory Site http://www.familysearch.org/ Maili...
03 April 2008

A Rose by any other name...

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An attendee in a workshop came up to me during a break and asked why I had listed my great-grandmother by her name of Fannie in my genealogi...

European Quick Links

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Every so often, I discover something that I put on my website for a lecture or a conference and immediately forget about. I hate to rattle o...
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02 April 2008

More Can You Read it?

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This one (twice on the same page) comes from a court document in 1904 in Hancock County, Illinois. This individual probably learned to write...
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Can You Read it? One more from the same guy

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This is from the same person as the previous post . Just to give a comparison.

Can You Read it?

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It has been a while since we have posted one of these. This comes from an 1870 era set of estate papers in Illinois. The writer was a German...

Suggestion for GenealogyBank

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I like using Genealogy Bank , but I do have a few suggestions: 1) I would like to be able to view more than five hits on one page. 2) I woul...

Using Genealogy for Passwords

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Most of have too many passwords. Sometimes we even are forced to change passwords periodically and unable to "reuse" passwords for...

Are You Looking in Surrounding Counties?

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I stumbled upon it to be honest. The Hannibal (Missouri) Public Library has digital images of many county and city directories on their web...
01 April 2008

Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1957

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It appears as if the Missouri State Archives has completed the digitization of most of the 1910-1957 death certificates for the state. The i...

Using Footnote.com in St. Charles, Missouri 12 April 2008

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We are reposting this as some former registrants were left off our snail mail list: There is still room in my workshop on using Footnote.com...

Colonel Febucker in Virginia--Who is he?

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This screenshot is the entire page from a Footnote.com image I have been working on for Samuel Rhodes . The reduced size shows the whole pa...

OCR searches in Footnote

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The newspapers at Footnote.com are searchable using OCR technology. The nice thing about the Footnote.com search results is that the high...

Getting Ready for Omaha--5 April 2008

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On 5 April 2008, I'll be presenting four lectures in Omaha, Nebraska, for the Greater Omaha Genealogical Society. I'm looking forwar...
28 March 2008

Computer Genealogy Workshop-Carthage, IL 26 April 2008

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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

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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...