Information, tips, and other interesting finds on this personal journey
Go into your brain and pick out a surname that would be awesome to try to research. Something that would return 8 million results every time you searched for it. If you guessed the surname LAST, you win. Searching for anything on that surname was never fun. I would get every version of "last … [Read more...]
While doing genealogy research, I end up going to Wikipedia a lot to do many things from finding locations of cities in Europe to finding which county a city is in. It takes a few steps to browse to Wikipedia, then to the English version, and then try to find my entry. Google Chrome and Mozilla … [Read more...]
My wife, Darcy, made me aware of Pinterest. She does a lot of work with the web and is always finding these new, interesting sites. Pinterest is best described by a story about it on the MySanAntonio website: [Pinterest is] a "virtual pinboard." Creative types often use actual pinboards or … [Read more...]
Up until this weekend I had never done any Czech research. I knew my wife's great-grandmother was born somewhere in Bohemia, which is in the Czech Republic, but we didn't dig much deeper. As you may, or may not have, read in my last post, I sort of fell into researching my wife's Czech line last … [Read more...]
I've been a customer of Netflix for many years now. Back when I first signed up, it was only DVDs by mail. Now you get instantly streaming shows and movies into your living room through a PC or an XBox or a Wii console and it's glorious. I've run across a bunch of different history and genealogy … [Read more...]
My wife, over at "Tales From the Nursery" posted a great article on some of the things Facebook may do to your blog posts. Two interesting things about Facebook has come to my attention: Facebook hates busy bloggers and keeps trying to hide us from our fans. It’s nothing person, but it’s … [Read more...]
I've been on a roll this week finding information in unexpected places. Earlier it was the cemetery website and newspaper archives. Tonight, I went to the FamilySearch website to see what records they may have on Goczałki or Gottschalk, the area of Poland that I'm targeting in my latest … [Read more...]
After running out of gas on trying to find more online records about my great-great-grandfather, Frank Zalewski, and his brother, Jacob, I decided to work the other way. I've read about people making awesome discoveries by connecting with distant cousins and finding out that they have some amazing … [Read more...]
April 2, 2012
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