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At 12:30 P.M. PST, I will be live. I'd love to have you join me.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Valentine's Day Podcast
Hi Everyone!
Today on my podcast, since it is Valentine's Day, we spent some time talking about love and marriage. I shared a couple of stories from my own genealogy, highlighting the kinds of things we can learn as we research our families. One story stems from a picture of James Orson and Minnie Mae (Harper) Brownell taken on their wedding day. It's so fun to know that Minnie was standing on a box! You can read more about them HERE.
This week, February 13th through the 19th, MyHeritage is offering the opportunity to search marriage records FREE! Registration may be required, but there is no charge. Take a look. You never know what you might discover. You should be able to get to their collection HERE
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Podcast!
Thursday, September 8, 2022
What About Cemetery Websites?
There can be great value in locating our relatives, or relatives of our relatives, in the various cemetery sites available to us. One of the most popular sites is Find a Grave. Here is a little info to get you started.
“Find a Grave's mission is to help people from all over
the world work together to find, record and present final disposition
information as a virtual cemetery experience.” (Find a Grave)
Powered by volunteers, Find a Grave was Initially created in
1995 by Jim Tipton who liked to locate graves of famous people. It has grown to
include people from all walks of life and is an amazing source of information
about some of them. Find a Grave became a subsidiary of Ancestry® in 2013. A
quick look at the collections available through Ancestry® yields a total of nearly
220 million memorials! This site is free, easy to use, offers iOS and Android
apps, memorial search, cemetery search, and other options. It is absolutely
worth becoming familiar with Find a Grave. You never know what you might find
to assist you in furthering the information about your family.
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Sunday, May 23, 2021
Try and Try and Try Again
Recently, I had the opportunity to work for several hours on one project, seeking specific information. I searched through collection after collection, and all over the internet, only to be let down. It was frustrating, and I kept believing I would find what I was looking for in the next set of records.
Each day, on my phone, I get a 'quote of the day.' Just the other day, the quote was this one attributed to Thomas Edison. It read,
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
It occurred to me how fully this applies to genealogical research. We search and search and search and search, sometimes with what feels like no success. But, if we look at it the way Thomas Edison apparently viewed his work, we would see that we have been successful; successful in eliminating resources, giving us the ability to move forward with what we don't know toward what we can know. No wonder we jump for joy (or cry out!) when we finally hit the jackpot with even one piece of new information for our ancestor!
I very much appreciate being reminded of this. Now, to carry on...
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