Information, tips, and other interesting finds on this personal journey
After going out to dinner for our birthday (my wife & I) with my parents last night, we got to talking a bit about genealogy and some stories about my grandparents. It was mentioned that my maternal grandfather was in World War II. I was never sure on this subject since I've heard nothing about. … [Read more...]
You've been doing all of this work on your family tree in your software of choice like Rootsmagic or Family Tree Maker. You're in contact with some people via the Internet about different people and generations in your tree. You find it annoying that you need to type the information into emails and … [Read more...]
I've been doing some indexing for FamilySearch. Helping index old documents for other people to be able to freely search is a good thing to do. Plus, I like seeing all of the history of some of these places. Stop on over there and lend a hand. While indexing a bunch of New Hampshire Pre-1900 … [Read more...]
AnceStories has a nice post about Organizing Your Digital Photographs. I have a basic organization (translates to "I know where some things are") of my photos, so this will come in very handy. It also gives me some new ideas. It may also help down the line when I start adding more photos to the … [Read more...]
I am hoping to spend some time interviewing my living grandparents. Obviously, I guess, though I would love to be able to talk to my late Grandpa Zalewski again. I have tons and tons of factual data; dates, times, places, etc. What I don't have a lot of are stories and first-hand accounts. My … [Read more...]
Technology is important to me. Since I was a kid, I've always loved technology. When I got into the genealogy game, computers and the Internet were already cemented in our lives, but genealogy was just starting to use it. I was lucky to start my genealogy research when the Internet was around. I am … [Read more...]
I ran across a very cool history/genealogy website via The Genealogy Guys podcast called Footnote. They put together a very slick historical document archive system and they are working on scanning important historical documents into it. You're able to search through them, annotate them, and also … [Read more...]
Wow, it's been a week. It sure seemed to go quickly. I didn't get to much family research in the last week, but I did visit my local library and checked out some of their genealogy items. The first book I checked out was "Your Guide to Cemetery Research" by Sharon Debartolo Carmack. It was one of … [Read more...]
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