I’m going to participate in this week’s Sunday’s Obituary theme. This is the obituary for my great-great grandmother, Emma Jane (FIRMENICH) CORRIGAN in from April 28, 1941. I’m not sure exactly which newspaper since I found the article in my grandmother’s collection and she didn’t note it. If I had to guess, it’s probably from [...]
[Continue reading…]Speaking of Czech Research
20 October 2011 By
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 [...]
[Continue reading…]Czech’ing Out the Records
19 October 2011 By
I hit up FamilySearch this weekend to do some miscellaneous research. I happened to see their collection of records for the Czech Republic (or Czechoslovakia) and since my wife’s great-grandmother, Anna (HUIZEL) COLLINS, was born there, I thought I’d browse them. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything useful. Though, while looking through their wiki pages on the [...]
[Continue reading…]SNGF: GeneaMeme
18 October 2011 By
Sometimes I’m late to these, but her is Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for this week. He had completed The Ancestors’ GeneaMeme from Geniaus. According to the instructions, the list should be annotated in the following manner: Things you have already done or found: bold face type Things you would like to do or find: [...]
[Continue reading…]Tombstone Tuesday: Kearns-Moran
11 October 2011 By
The headstone of my wife’s 3rd-great-grandmother Margaret KEARNS from her father’s maternal side. Born in 1822 in Ohio, she first married Nelson ENYART (sometimes spelled ENGART) in 1841. There is mystery surrounding what happened to Nelson, but in 1875 she ended up marrying Robert MORAN, who is actually my wife’s 3rd-great-grandfather from her father’s paternal side. [...]
[Continue reading…]Permanent Record
2 October 2011 By
A few weeks back, I ran across a link on BoingBoing to an article on Slate.com. I saw that it mentioned old documents and since I’m a sucker for old documents, I gave it a read. If you’re also a fan of old documents, especially more interesting ones, than you’ll love this series of articles [...]
[Continue reading…]SNGF: Matrilineal Line
1 October 2011 By
It’s time for another one of Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun posts. List your matrilineal line – your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you! Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which [...]
[Continue reading…]The Tech-Savvy Genealogist
1 October 2011 By
Geniaus created The Tech-Savvy Genealogist Meme, I borrowed it from Genea-Musings. This one is more up my alley since I’ve been involved in technology since I was a little boy. The list should be annotated in the following manner: Things you have already done or found: bold face type Things you would like to do [...]
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