Helping the present understand the past
I started my Around the Town Thursday posts with the intention of highlighting all the wonderful things to see and do in Kansas City. I knew eventually I’d like to expand from just the Kansas City area but I honestly didn’t expect it to be this soon. Having been sent to Langley, BC (Canada) for…
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Welcome to Tombstone Tuesday! Today we’re looking at the tombstone of my paternal first cousin, twice removed, Elsa Sophia Altman located in Anselm Lutheran Cemetery. Tombstone of Elsa S. Altman Anselm Lutheran Cemetery, Anselm Ransom, North Dakota Elsa Sophia was the ninth of seventeen children of Robert Altman and Albertina Amelie (Lange) Altman. She had…
Growing up I can remember my grandparents spending hours sitting in front of the microfilm or microfiche readers at the Family History Center in Independence. I would watch them scroll from page to page. Occasionally they would even write something down. For the longest time I wondered what they were doing sitting in front of…
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday. Today we’re looking at AK’s Genealogy Research. Annette’s blog was created for the same reason most of the amateur blogs were created – to document her research and progress. And that’s why I love these blogs. Blogs like AK’s Genealogy Research show the ups and downs and successes…
TGIF and welcome to another edition of Follow Friday. Today we’re looking at A Patient Genealogist. Devon’s writing reads like she’s simply conversing with another person. Her post on Is this German Scan Readable for Translation? caught my interest right away. Of course, there were several other posts of hers that interested me as well,…