Helping the present understand the past
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday. In today’s spotlight is Begin with “Craft” a wonderful blog about Valerie’s genealogy journey. Valerie’s post on Expanding My Research Comfort Zone: Visiting A County Courthouse really caught my attention. I haven’t had the opportunity to do any research in a county courthouse so I was very interested…
It’s Thursday and time for another edition of Around the Town Thursday. In the spotlight today is a historic building that’s very near and dear to my heart: Corinthian Hall. South facade (front) of Corinthian Hall Porte cochere with bronze and wire glass canopy Many local residents might know this building as the Kansas…
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Census records. Every genealogist uses them at one point or another. They’re a great source of information as long as you keep in mind the possibility for errors to be found within the census records. The United States has taken a federal census every 10 years since 1790. The first census enumeration contained a limited…
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday! Today we’re looking at the blog Ancestral Breezes. Jen’s blog focuses on telling the stories of her past, her family and throwing in some education for good measure. And she does a good job at all of it. Her post on My first look at the Digital Public…
Welcome to another edition of Around the Town Thursday! I’m very excited for today’s post, for two reasons: first and foremost, it’s a winery. If that’s not enough there’s the second reason, it’s a winery in a church building. Oh but it gets better! The old church Pirtle Winery resides in is a Lutheran Evangelical…