Tag: genealogy
|
September 06, 2008 07:29 PM EDT --
Okay, I have a quick question for people who know genealogy. I have family that was born in Virginia, but then it part of it broke off and became West Virginia. Should I refer them as having been born . . . more
|
|
June 13, 2007 06:43 PM EDT --
John, O.,
I dashed this off tonight in your honor. I know it needs some work, but it is definitely newly minted for Gather. :) ~kate
Katie cursed silently under her breath as the heel of . . . more
|
|
September 01, 2007 10:01 PM EDT --
One of the hazards of doing genealogy work (aside from getting poison ivy at the cemetery or paper cuts at the library) is digging up the family skeleton. For me it's not a problem. It's those . . . more
|
|
April 15, 2008 03:17 PM EDT --
Touch your mother
you've touched your grandmother too
Each life enriched by
Those before and those next
Trough the ages
Long chain it goes on
As into the future
Each . . . more
|
|
August 06, 2008 07:36 AM EDT --
This is one of my favorite pictures in my vast collection of family history memorabilia that I inherited from my maternal grandmother, Alice Mack. It's a postcard really. It was never mailed and the . . . more
|
|
July 05, 2008 03:17 PM EDT --
I was working on www.findagrave.com, and while I was looking for my father's uncle, I found his cousin instead that was killed in Vietnam. He died the day after he had turned 20. There was a picture . . . more
|
|
May 20, 2008 08:52 PM EDT --
I stopped by a local bookstore the other day to buy a copy of a magazine for a woman quoted in a monthly history column I write for a local publication. (If you want to read the story, click on the . . . more
|
|
September 03, 2007 05:37 PM EDT --
Often, it can be difficult to find a particular person in your family of ancestors. This can be very frustrating as it puts you at a “stand still” so to speak. . . . more
|
|
August 04, 2008 11:38 PM EDT --
Recently, I had my DNA tested for genealogy.Well, my brothers anyway.
I'd been researching our male line for a few years but needed to pin down the country of origin.
Would you try DNA . . . more
|
|
April 28, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
In the early 1980’s, my husband’s Grandfather became ill and was unable to take care of himself.
He was so upset because he thought we would put him in a home for the elderly. We never even . . . more
|
|
September 29, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
For those of you who have done genealogy research, you know how exciting it can be to find a missing piece of information or to discover a new branch in the family tree. And you also know how hard it can . . . more
|
|
May 09, 2008 07:51 PM EDT --
I do a lot of genealogy work for other people. I love finding long lost family members and solving genealogical puzzles. This is some genealogy work I did for my own family and involves a little history . . . more
|
|
May 10, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
This is a story written first person from Grandma Alice's point of view. Like with all my Grandma Alice stories, the whole is taken from bits and pieces of letters and notes I found that . . . more
|
|
September 20, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
Selected New York Times Archive Articles Now Free
You used to have to pay for articles from the New York Times online archive, but now you can get content from 1851 to 1923 and from 1987 . . . more
|
|
May 03, 2006 10:28 PM EDT --
In the spirit of the two truths and a lie group, here goes:
1) I'm 48 and my grandfather was born in the 1860s.
2) We still have the Roadster my dad bought in 1932, and it runs great.
3) It didn't . . . more
|
|
March 12, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
Whenever people are just beginning their own genealogy, they always hope to find they are connected to someone famous. When I began my own genealogy quest, I just hoped to find out more about my most recent . . . more
|
|
November 13, 2007 02:46 PM EST --
My grandfather (deceased) was full blooded French Canadian. My mother says my birth father was part Creole French. So that means I have some French in me, somewhere. I've also . . . more
|
|
January 24, 2008 03:37 PM EST --
Maternal ancestral names (Mother's side)
Blanchan
Hart
Hendricksen
Hodges
Hughes
Jorisse
Kelly
Knapp
LaFurge
LeRoy
MacSheehy
Mahoney . . . more
|
|
April 21, 2008 06:33 PM EDT --
I have a new Genealogy blog if anyone cares to check it out. Thanks
http://genealogysf.blogspot.com
more
|
|
April 16, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
I am very fortunate to be the caretaker of several high school yearbooks that belonged to my parents and grandparents. My family must have been genealogists at heart to have managed to save these . . . more
|
|
|
|
