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Researching Poetry, Quotes, and Songs
One of my grandfather’s was a teacher and in his early, romantic years, he fancied himself a poet. Unfortunately, while we have a lot of his handwritten poetry from the 1930s, most of them were not his own. Grandfather copied … Continue reading
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Canada Begins Its 2006 Census by Allowing Online Filing
The 2006 Census is on in Canada, and Canadian citizens can fill in their Census report online to make the process easier. To file your census report online, you still need the printed questionnaire form as there is an “Internet … Continue reading
History Channel’s Desperate Crossing – The Untold Story of the Mayflower
Everton Publisher’s Genealogy Blog reports that “The Untold Story of the Mayflower” will be shown on the History Channel in November 2006. From the History Channel press release: It’s a story familiar to most of us from school. And in … Continue reading
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Free Books Online for the Genealogist and Family History Researcher – Limited Time Offer
Everton Publishers’ Genealogy Blog reports that Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library are sponsoring the World eBook Fair. Project Gutenberg, with the cooperation of many other eBook publishers, is currently sponsoring a month-long eBook Fair. They have made available about … Continue reading
Which You is Writing Your Memoirs?
The Lifewriter’s Digest offers “Who is Writing Your Memoirs”, an interesting twist on thinking about writing your memoirs and autobiography. The same internal debate occurs as you writing your memoirs. You have many parts vying for authorship of your memoir, … Continue reading
New England Genealogy Societies Conference Begins August 30, 2006
The Federation of Genealogical Societies and New England Historic Genealogical Society Conference August 30 – September 2, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts The Federation of Genealogical Societies and New England Historic Genealogical Society Conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts, from August … Continue reading
The Lies Our Ancestors Told Us
In an interesting newspaper editorial, Sarri Gilman in the The Herald talked about the lies her grandparents told her: It is disappointing when beliefs we hold close to our hearts turn out to be not worthy of our aspirations. Sometimes … Continue reading
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Suggestions for Prompting the Memory for Storytelling and Memoirs
Personal Narrative Collection suggestions is a fabulous list of prompts for inspiring recollections of your past. This is an excellent tool for those writing their memoirs or autobiographies, to help children tell stories of their life, and for anyone writing … Continue reading
Researching the Bureau of Land Management Land Office Records
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has a site for researching US federal land records called the The Official Federal Land Records Site. On the Federal Land Records site, you can search for image access on more than 2 million … Continue reading
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Finding the Reward in Copying Other People’s Work Across Time
As mentioned recently, I’ve been working on transcribing the journal, written pages, and notes found in the many papers of the Knapp side of my family, and I’ve run into some problems finding credits for the work they have written, … Continue reading
