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One of the joys of completing family trees is that you get to piecetogether puzzles in the family. Its hugely satisfying work to toil awayon a family unit, putting information together so that you can make somesense of what happened to the family as a whole.
Currently, I have a puzzle in my family tree that I will likely needassistance on. The patriarch of our family - the farthest back I havegone in the Sinnett family of my line - h
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Piedad Yorba was the granddaughter of Don Bernardo Yorba, the youngest son of Jose An
When a person stumbles upon a deeply rooted secret, it’s nearly impossible to keep quiet. And yet, that is exactly what my family did for decades. None of us had the gumption to ask dad about the bizarre happenings in Wisconsin. We each furtively hoped he’d one day grant us an exclusive tell-all about the time grandfather abandoned the family to become co-leader of a controversial, anti-communist religious movement.
In 1950, my grandfather, Henry Swan, was asked by the local priest to investigate
Last November I wrote a post at Nutfield Genealogy www.nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com about a quilt made by a member of my family tree. I didn’t know about this quilt, nor about this branch of the family, until I used Google to search a name. I had been searching for my 4x great grandfather Luther Simonds Munroe, but his namesake was his nephew, with the same name, and this second Luther’s wife had made a quilt during the Civil War era. Fortunately for me, Emily (Wiley) Munroe’s quilt had been d
When my own children were young, my father suggested taking a photograph of them every month, in the same location and pose. These photographs, he explained, could later be assembled into a type of time-line of their growth and development. While I did take many photos of both of my sons, I never did manage to do that specific project, although it still think it’s a terrific idea and would have been a wonderful thing to have now.
I did take a photograph of them every year, as they were leaving fo
To also learn how to fill it out properly, sourcing it to another place and completing it as best we can.
There are a plethora of charts for us to us. Each serves a different purpose or carries a different agenda. There are round charts, fan charts, regular 9 x 13 charts, ha ha got you.
Now we learn if you color code some, the way they are designed you can do a migration pattern using that same chart you w
You could have a man named Hugues Picard who also used the name Hugues LaFortune. When he signed a contra
Community Trees are lineage-linked genealogies from specific time periods and geographic localities around the world. Theinformation also includes the supporting sources. Most of thegenealogies are joint projects between FamilySearch and others who livelocally or have expertise in the area or records used to create thegenealogies. Each Community Tree is a searchable database with views ofindividuals, families, ancestors and descendants, as well as printin
In German families, the researcher might notice a few variations from the English pattern listed above. In German families, it was customary to give, at baptism, two names. The first was a spiritual or a saint's name in honor of a favorite saint. The second or middle name was the name the person was known by within the family. For example, you may see in one family a Johann Adam, Johann George, Johann Jacob Hetzel and some favorite female names were Anna Barbara and Anna Margaret Hetzel. It was
The French had naming traditions that started with family and involved Church.
Every first-born son was generally named after the paternal grandfather. The second-born son was named after the maternal grandfather.
The first two daughters were generally named after their grandmothers. The order would flip-flop, depending on whether one was dead or not. Since maternal mortality was high, you'll often see the name of a deceased grandmother being used over and over again.
The next thing you'll run into
You can hardly escape this "new" sense of what is called cluster
If your ancestors lived in Colonial New England, or if you suspect that your ancestors lived in New England any time up until 1800, then you must have used the New Hampshire State Papers for your genealogical research. I first came across this wonderful resource years ago (before the internet) at the Portsmouth Atheneum library. Now, when I run across a new name in the family tree, I can go to the NH State Papers online at the website for the State Archives.
The NH State Papers were published in
legal involvement is with copyright infringement or violation claims.
Certainly, extensive plagiarism is almost always also a violation of
copyright. To quote from the University of Arizona Libraries website on Avoiding Plagiarism,
"Plagiarism is using others' ideas and words without clearly
acknowledging the source of that information." In genealogy, the
definition fits exactly. If you copy someone else's genealogical work
without a
Thomas M. really said it all two years ago at the Burbank Conference about why to blog and what the advantages were.
1. The search engine technique of today is different than ten years ago or less. The webcrawlers need a larger query to locate your comments and to send back data.
2. Blogs are rea
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