ancestors
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Army Officers’ Wives 1865-1900
Dec 20
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a most unusual and lesser thought about database of real life stories surrounding the wives of US Army Officers between 1865 and 1900. This collection online has in their own words through journals, letters and diaries their thoughts and actual experiences living on military posts across the Great Plains in t...
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Children’s Games Your Ancestors Played
Dec 19
The games that children play today are very different from the ones that your ancestors played when they were kids. Many of these simple games have survived through the ages, but may have wained in popularity. You may have played some of them without realizing how old they actually are. Here is a brief history lesson about some of the games that ...
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Christmas Gifts for Children in 1913
Dec 18
Your ancestors were children once. So figuring a hundred years ago, more than likely it was a grandparent or great grandparent or even a great-great grandparent that was a child at Christmas in 1913. So what were they hoping Santa would leave them under the tree? Since years ago the hometown newspaper use to publish the letters to Santa from th...
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Organizing Vintage Photos
Dec 14
Yes, you might have boxes of old photos, ones handed down through several generations. However, unless they are organization and especially labeled, they are not very useful to the family historian. It will take commitment to achieve such a task of organizing the collection of photos, but once it is finished - you will be so happy. That was one ...
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Occupations & City Directories in Abbreviated Form
Dec 12
This has happened to everyone doing family research. You find on a census record or a journal, military record, anything -- there is a few letters put together that stand for 'something' but what?? If you have a clue as to it being a place or name, you can try to figure it out. However, what it might be is an occupation. For example seeing 'delc...
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Researching Arkansas and Michigan
Dec 6
Arkansas If you have had any relatives from the state of Arkansas there may be relatives buried in the cemeteries there. Even if they did not live there, so a variety of reasons a person may have been buried there. So it is worthwhile to check different locations in search of your ancestors. Using the database of Arkansas Gravestones, there are...
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Database ‘Treasure Chest’
Dec 6
With the use of the Internet along with the interest in genealogy and many records made digital, the use of online databases is necessary. At FamilyTree.com in the 'Reviews' section is a run down of 14 of great databases to select from, some with a fee and others free. All are general and can be of help with most any researcher. To add to that ...
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Veteran Administration Pension Payment Cards
Dec 4
Online and free to view and save information is the Veteran Administration Pension Payment Cards which cover 1907 to 1933 for those who serviced in the regular U. S. military. This doesn't mean an ancestor served during those years but rather they applied and either was refused or did receive a pension for his military service. So a person might ha...
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Online Books
Dec 2
Libraries are an excellent source especially for books on a hometown, historical events or even biographies on individuals. Many such books were written during the time period or just after a specific ancestor lived in that town. Yet getting to the hometown library could be difficult. Using Online Books, this site has thousands of books scanned ...
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Yearbooks
Nov 30
What a resource a high school, college, university or post-graduate yearbook can be for the family researcher. True, most people don't like their yearbook portraits, but for the family historian those photos and the information about the person can be priceless. You first need to check with all relatives, long-time family friends to see if they ...