Helping the present understand the past
A friend and I were talking the other day and she mentioned she might be interested in learning more about her family’s genealogy. She asked me, “How would I get started?” I gave her the same answer I’d heard every genealogist and genealogy class instructor give: “You start with yourself.” “Well what does that mean?”…
Friday, hooray! Let’s take a look at today’s edition of Follow Friday. A Sense of Family is the blog I’ve chosen to spotlight today. Shelly’s posts are easy and interesting reads. She’s highlighted her family, conferences she’s attended, genealogical writing and tips and tricks that she uses. Her post on Finding Daughters by Searching on…
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…