Helping the present understand the past
TGIF and welcome to another edition of Follow Friday. Today I’m highlighting Ancestry Sisters‘ blog. Here’s a quick disclaimer: Ancestry Sisters is a professional genealogist’s blog. I have not received any compensation from Ancestry Sisters for this post. My Follow Friday posts are as unbiased as I can possibly make them and my criteria for…
After having traveled to Hutchinson, Kansas to see some great sights, we’re back in Kansas City for this edition of Around the Town Thursday. Today we’re stopping in at Christy’s Tasty Queen, a great little hole-in-the-wall restaurant located in Kansas City, Kansas. Christy’s Tasty Queen in Kansas City, Kansas I grew up in the Turner…
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I’ve mentioned before that I like to frequent estate sales. There are always interesting items to be found and as I wander through the sales I often wonder what the person who owned the items being sold was like. I’ve brought D1 and most-wonderful-mother-in-law to “the dark side” with me and they have begun going…
Today we’re continuing to talk about vital records. Last week we talked about birth certificates and some of the information you can find on them. This week we’re going to talk about marriage records. If you’ve been married you know how obtaining a marriage license works. You fill out an application, get the license, the…
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday! Today I’m highlighting Ancestry Search, a family history blog written by Kathleen. I admit, this one I started reading purely because the first post I saw was Kathleen’s post on Researching in the Kansas State Census. Anyone who knows me fairly well knows I love living in Kansas….