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GeneaSearch: Find Your Female Ancestors
GeneaSearch has an interesting feature and search tool called Find Your Female Ancestors. Female ancestors are often hard to find. Because of name changes and lost marriage records, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to find our female ancestors’ … Continue reading
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Watching Climate Change Through Family Photo Albums
Nature News reports how “Family Albums Highlight Climate Change”, showcasing the pictures of the facts we already know. Climate researchers and ecologists are usually known for using complex computer simulations to study environmental change. But Boston University researchers are using … Continue reading
Desktop Publishing Your Family History Book or Album
About.com’s Desktop Publishing section has a series of articles about using Desktop Publishing to publish your family history book, including examining software, building narratives, making charts, displaying and arranging photographs and other documents, and getting your family history book published. … Continue reading
Wilber West (1827-c1900) and Wife, Comfort Caroline Wells (1830-c1890)
From the Memoirs of Lenawee County, Michigan: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Lenawee County by Richard Illenden Bonner (born 1838), I found the following on pages … Continue reading
MemoryArchive: Preserving Our Memories Online
MemoryArchive is an interesting wiki, a form of Wikipedia for memories. Calling itself “the encyclopedia of memories”, it currently features over 600 memoirs about a variety of events, people, places, things, years, recovery, life in general. There are memoirs and … Continue reading
University of Wisconsin at Green Bay Area Research Center
The University of Wisconsin at Green Bay Area Research Center, known as the ARC, was incredibly helpful to us during our stay in Green Bay, researching our Anderson and Knapp family tree. The ARC has very limited public access hours. … Continue reading
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How Long Between Immigration and Naturalization in the US?
According to the Federal Naturalization Act of 1802, three years of residency were required before someone could file for a Declaration of Intent to become a citizen of the United States. The Federal Naturalization Act of 1824 reduced the time … Continue reading
Memorial Inscriptions, Parish, and Church Records Help Trace Family Roots
“Why are memorial inscriptions (MIs) important and what can they tell us that other records can’t?”, by 50Connect.co.uk, is an interesting look at parish registers and church records that can help you trace your family’s roots. For family historians, MIs … Continue reading
They Wanted to Get Here in the Worst Way
In my research, I found a copy of a July 1972 article in the Milwaukee Journal called “They Wanted to Get here in the Worst Way – and Did” by Brian Dunning. I thought it might help me understand what … Continue reading
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Primary versus Secondary Sources: Research Until You Think It’s Right
Dana Huff writes about “Primary Sources Versus Secondary Sources” in an interesting educational post. If you have been researching your family history, you may have run into the classic pitfall. Primary sources can be expensive to obtain and difficult to … Continue reading
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