Helping the present understand the past
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Challenge Accepted! I’m a member of several different genealogy groups on FaceBook. You might not normally think of FaceBook for genealogy but it’s a great platform for communicating with other genealogists! While browsing the posts of the Genealogy Bloggers group, I ran across a post from one of the members…
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…
Continuing our recent discussion on census records, today we’re looking at the 1910 census. The 1910 census was enumerated beginning 15 April 1910. 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 listing, let’s look at what can be discovered about his…