Do you ever find yourself looking for a picture of an individual in a group and not finding it? Or, do you struggle to find a digital image of a document that someone witnessed? I know I struggle with this issue. That's why Tony Proctor's presentation regarding indexing off file names during last Monday's session …
Month: January 2019
#NotatRootsTech
Mark your calendar for February 27th thru March 2nd and join me #NotAtRootsTech! This will be my third year of #NotAtRootsTech and I can't wait. Having been away from genealogy for several years, I was unaware of RootsTech when I returned to my genealogy. During my first year of retirement, I somehow learned about the …
My Library Adventure
Do you include libraries and archives in your genealogy toolbox? For me, the use of a library or archive has always been part of my genealogy journey. Perhaps that is because I earned my Masters' in Library Science about the same time I started my genealogical journey. Even though my emphasis was in school librarianship, …
Two Degrees
Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music):1) Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with two degrees of separation? That means "you knew an ancestor, who knew another ancestor." When was that second ancestor born? My first thought was that I knew …
Moved
I have moved my blog to Blogger. Please join me at Heartland Genealogy Recent posts include: Revelation Moving Day Part 3 Jump Break Moving Day Part 2 Thank you to everyone who has followed this blog!
Revelation
Have you ever tripped over a county line? I mean, have you ever not considered a family in the neighboring county just because they are in the neighboring county? Well, I have -- for over thirty years. As I've written about before, I have two James Crawford families living in Preble County, Ohio. One is …
Moving Day
When working on your genealogy, have you ever used a piece of software or web site that didn't quite do what you expected. Then, when you go searching for an alternative find that the alternative is relatively expensive and you want to preserve your precious genealogy funds for something else. Well, that's the position I …
Tax Man Cometh
It's tax season again. I'm betting that unless one has a child applying for a college scholarship, most people haven't started their taxes yet. I know I haven't. I'd rather be spending my time researching. So why was I buried in tax information yesterday? Well, I was going back thru some old research in pre …
Marriage Bond Mystery
Do you have documents in your genealogy files with incomplete citations. Congratulations if your answer was no! Unfortunately, I have documents with partial citations. One set of those documents is four marriage bonds involving Crawford family members from Kentucky in the 1790s. Mary Crawford consent to marry James Sellers given by Rebekah Crawford on 19 …
Perspective
Does your genealogy have a brick wall FAN club that involves several branches of the surname along with lots of same name issues? Well, the parents of my ancestor, James Crawford (1772-1854) has such a FAN club. While working with some other researchers from the FAN club, but unfortunately not my line, I created a …