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Fifty-six years ago last month, a daughter was reunited with her father who she hadn’t seen for 43 years – not since she was less than 5 years old. That daughter was my mother, nee Virginia Cornett Feller. I was Continue reading Father & Daughter (my mom) Reunited After 43 Years
It’s been an interesting day… As with a much of the USA, the Bountiful, Utah area has seen it’s share of lousy weather in the last several weeks. First, it snowed for about 3 days, accumulating near 20 inches at Continue reading Ice, Ice Everywhere…
We picked the last of the tomatoes, cucumbers, and cabbage on Tuesday, Wednesday the temperatures began to drop dramatically, and we woke up to snow this morning (Thursday, Oct 25, 2012). I doubt the snow will last long and temperatures Continue reading Winter Time is a’Coming… and it’s Time for Research, Grandchildren & the Salt Lake Christmas Tour
Although not as popular as Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day, National Grandparent’s Day has been gaining in popularity ever since President Jimmy Carter in 1978 declared the First Sunday after Labor Day to be an annual celebration of grandparents. Read Continue reading National Grandparent’s Day This Sunday
Over the years I’ve continued to collect what little information I could find on my third-great-grandfather, Gold Canfield. He died in 1814 in the War of 1812, having frozen his arm while on guard duty in Harlem Heights, New York. Continue reading Lots of Robertson Cousins Found in an 1896 Obituary this Morning & GenealogyBank Annual Subs for only $48.95!
I’ve had a membership to WorldVitalRecords.com since the beginning of that website. I went to work for Everton’s in 2006, and they had a relationship with World Vital Records, allowing WVR to scan books and magazines in the Everton collection Continue reading Using the MyHeritage Family Trees Now Found on the World Vital Records Site
A few days ago, I got a call from Mark Olsen, who works for MyHeritage.com, and its subsidiary, WorldvitalRecords.com. Mark told me that they had a new SuperSearch™ that would search across the MyHeritage sites, and affiliated data. MyHeritage SuperSearch™ Continue reading MyHeritage’s New “SuperSearch”
I don’t post many pictures of myself on the blog. But today Diane Miller, with Flip-Pal, came by the booth at the NGS Conference and took a shot of my grandson, Nicholas Meitzler, while I was holding him. This was Continue reading Grandpa Leland Having a Good Day
Well, the 1940 census opened today. I wasn’t ever able to get anywhere on the 1940census.arhcives.gov site, so this evening I tried seeing what I could find on Ancestry.com. They had a dozen states or so up tonight, so I Continue reading My First Forage Into the 1940 Census
The following excerpt is from an article published in the July 11, 2011 edition of the North Texas e-News. It caught my eye and my attention, as Patty has Delta County ancestry, and this museum didn’t exist the last time Continue reading Mary Slough Museum in Enloe, Delta County, Texas May Have the History of Your Ancestors
I took a few minutes today to look up the Veteran’s Administration Pension Payment Cards for my great-grandmother, Abigail Titus Canfield Hinchey Goff, found at FamilySearch.org. Abigail was awarded a pension twice, once when my great-grandfather, Henry Canfield, died in Continue reading Using the US Veteran’s Administration Pension Payment Cards 1907-1933 Found at FamilySearch.org
The last blog I posted was from the SCGS Genealogical Jamboree in Burbank. Since then, Tara, Dale and I have exhibited for Family Roots Publishing Co. at North Platte, Nebraska; Rapid City, South Dakota; and Sheridan, Wyoming. We’re set up Continue reading We’ve Been Traveling
After 12 days of travel and exhibiting, Dale, Tara, and I are finally home, and more or less settled into our normal schedule again. It took us five days to drive to Charleston, South Carolina and set up for the Continue reading Back Home in Bountiful & Other Stuff
While searching for Meitzler information at the WorldVitalRecords website today, I ran across a newspaper item about a bank cashier by the name of George W. Meitzler who went home and shot himself while the bank examiner was auditing accounts Continue reading George W. Meitzler Commits Suicide by Shooting Himself
Bandit passed away yesterday. He was a siamese cat that adopted us when he was just a tiny kitten. In early September of 1994, Patty and I were out at by the mailbox at our getaway place near Custer, South Continue reading Bandit – 1994-2011 RIP