Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night Again - Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!! Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1) We all need, and usually enjoy, a little help from our genealogy friends. This week's challenge is to share a time when a genea-friend helped …
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Timelines
Have you used timelines in your genealogy research? If so, did you create them by hand or let your genealogy software do the work for you. I have to admit that I rarely use timelines. Intead, I just look at a persons profile, which RootsMagic 9 arranges like an individual timeline. If I wanted a …
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 Ships Sunk Sotoyoma - YT-9 - Harbor Tug Boat Oglala - CM-4 - Minelayer West Virginia - BB48 - Battleship California -BB44 - Battleship Arizona - BB-39 - Battleship Oklahoma - BB-37 - Battleship Utah - AG-16 - Dreadnaught Battleship The Courier Tribune11 Dec 1941page 1 Home Boys in Sea War Zone …
Purple Hearts
Virgil Brown While it isn't surprising that there was more than one Virgil Brown serving during World War II, I ws surprised to find two men of this name serving from Sabetha, Kansas. The Virgil Brown who received the Purple Heart started his military career in the State Guard. Courier Tribune16 March 1942page 5 State …
Friday Finds
Do you have documents in your genealogy files that do not have any sourcing information attached? Unfortunately, I have to admit to that transgression. Today's Friday Find is such a document from my WELLS folder for Kansas. This is a list of descendants of Ozias Wells and Mary Kennedy conentrating on Thurston Wells' line. DESCENDENT'S …
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):1) This week, let's write about "My memories of the decade of my choice." Choose …
Saturday Tidbits
1940 Draft - Serial Number Order Continued from Nov. 18 “The wheel is spinning in the United States for some 17 million young men. It started when Congress decreed that they should register for possible military service. Then came the registration; then the spin which gave each man in the county a serial number. Tuesday …
yDNA R1b-01A
Have you purchased a yDNA test for yourself or a male relative? Have the results helped you with that branch of your tree? I am currently managing three BigY tests for my CRAWFORD line and still have a brick wall! I am fortunate that a lot of Crawford family members have not only tested but …
AI
Whether we realize it or not, we have likely used AI technology, even in our genealogy research. Now, thanks to ChatGPT 3.5 and the experimentation of other genealogists, one can turn a timeline into a biography. Randy Seaver used a RootsMagic report to demonstrate this in his post, Writing an AI Narrative Report in ChatGPT …