Helping the present understand the past
In January I posted about some of my previous-year accomplishments and current-year goals for my genealogy. I decided to do a mid-year check-in to see where I’m at on meeting my goals for this year. Here’s the list I began the year with: Continue the research I’ve begun on D1′s family and start collecting proof…
Ancestors If you could see your Ancestors all standing in a row Would you be proud of them or not – or don’t you really know? Some strange discoveries are made in climbing family trees And some of them, you know, do not particularly please. If you could see your Ancestors all standing in…
With the time off from work I had around Christmas time I devoted some time to beginning work on D1’s genealogy. I had no idea what I would find or if it would be difficult to find information on his family but I was prepared for some quality time on different genealogy sites in search…
After a taking a brief hiatus from blogging for the holiday season I decided a good first post for 2014 would be a review of accomplishments for 2013 and a list of goals for 2014. I was very excited to get back into working on my genealogy in 2013 after several years of not working…
It’s another Monday and time for another post. Today, we’re continuing our recent discussion on census records, today we’re looking at the 1900 census. The 1900 census was enumerated beginning 1 June 1900. Let’s look at the actual census record to see what information can be extracted from this census. Using my great-grandpa Edward’s census…