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I haven’t made a breakthrough on any of my direct-line ancestors in years. All the easy research was done years ago, and most breakthroughs are now made after extensive research. However, prompted by the need to write a review of Continue reading Breakthrough! – A Review of Mocavo.com – the Latest in Genealogical Search Engines
It’s Mother’s Day again and it’s appropriate that I write short blog about the mothers in my life. There are four women who I’m going to single out this Mother’s Day – one living and three who have passed on. Continue reading Happy Mother’s Day
One of the resources that we were informed about on January 8 when the bloggers visited Ancestry.com was the 1950 census substitute. Ancestry.com announced this last week that the resource was now posted. This “substitute” for the yet-to-be-released 1950 census Continue reading The New 1950 Census Substitute at Ancestry.com
As I’ve written before, our family spent a fair amount of time in the national parks over the years. A lot of memories were made there. The current 6th Edition of the Festival of Postcards encourages us to blog about Continue reading The Paradise Glacier Ice Caves
Randy challenged us to do a blog about the nicest thing another genealogist has ever done for us. Goodness – that list could go on forever, but on my part I’m going to go way back in time to mention Continue reading One of the Nicest Things Ever Done for Me
Update – as Oxa points out in the comments, I seem to have been reading the map wrong. Just because a map shows no persons living in Utah by the name of Meitzler doesn’t necessarily mean that no Meitzler’s were Continue reading Meitzler Surname Distribution, According to publicprofiler.org
Dollarhide and I are about to check out of a hotel in Reno, Nevada – and head for Redding, California, where we set up for the 2009 California Family History Expo this afternoon. On the way, we will be stopping Continue reading On the Way to the California Family History Expo & Picking Up the Dead Relatives
This post is number 1001 since I got GenealogyBlog up and running again in January. So I just thought I should celebrate a bit this evening. Here’s hoping that the last 1000 blogs were of interest and of use to Continue reading 1001 Blog Entries
Ouch – Randy recommended that we write about a childhood memory this evening. So here goes… As a very young child (under 5), our family (Theodore, Virginia, Beverly, Steve, and I), went to church every Saturday at a very tiny Continue reading Earliest Childhood Memories
This is my first little essay for The Carnival of Genealogy. In all these years, while I had a “real job,” I resisted getting involved. It was most likely a mistake, but that’s water under the bridge. I’m probably best Continue reading My Uncle, Merle Feller, b 1915 d 2002
The recession is taking its toll on funerals… I hadn’t thought about it too much, but when my brother passed away on Feb. 21, I found that he had opted for cremation instead of being buried next to his father Continue reading It’s Cheaper to be Fried Than to be Buried – and That’s Tough on the Funeral Home Folks
There’s an interesting blog titled “Family skeletons detrimental to healing” posted on the ScienceBlog website that set me to thinking… Genealogists seem to love to drag out the family skeletons. Good old adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, and even a murder Continue reading Shaking Out the Family Skeletons Might Save Your Life
UPDATE: As of May 26, 2009, the Nationwide Grave Locator website is down – thus the following link will not work. I can find no further information on the subject – and figure that this is most likely temporary – Continue reading Using the Department of Veterans Affairs “Nationwide Gravesite Locator”
A while back I downloaded the death certificate from the Cook County Genealogy Online website for a cousin whose name was Albert Schaaf. He died April 26, 1935 in Chicago. According to the Death Certificate he was buried in the Continue reading He’s Buried in Waldheim Cemetery… or is he?
UPDATE: See Dee Bird’s tribute to Neil – and his obituary at her blog. My brother, Herbert “Neil” Meitzler, passed away last evening. The family was there beside him to ease his journey – but looking back on the experience, Continue reading The Deathwatch