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…
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…
It’s Tuesday and that means another edition of Tombstone Tuesday! Today we’re still wandering thru Anselm Lutheran Cemetery. Among the many family members residing in Anselm Cemetery is my second great-grandmother, Marie Louise Henrietta (Froemke) Altman (a.k.a. Altmann). Headstone of Marie Louis Henrietta (Froemke) Altman (a.k.a. Altmann) Anselm Lutheran Cemetery in Anselm, Ransom, North Dakota…
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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…