ancestors

  • Abbreviations of Occupations

    Sep 5

    You found this great city directory of the hometown where your ancestors lived decades ago. There are several you are looking up to learn where they lived and what job they held. Then you see abbreviations for many of those jobs. What do they mean?? For example, there could be 'slsmn' - here the vowels for the word were removed. Put the letters ba...

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  • Archives for Minnesota

    Aug 31

    The Minnesota Historic Society are online, free for anyone with interest in any ancestors who lived or worked in Minnesota. This site has images of artifacts, photographs, works of art, copies of documents / manuscripts, and maps. It is not the entire collection held by the Minnesota Historic Society, but more will be added in the future. Use th...

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  • Add an Ancestor’s Portrait on FamilySearch.org

    Aug 29

    The term 'Portrait Pedigree' is the newest addition to FamilySearch.org. It is a method in a vertical format to add portraits of your ancestors to the family tree. Nothing finer than having the brief information on an ancestor along with their portrait. The FamilySearch.org program allows you to switch between those trees with a portrait, the fa...

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  • Wedding Anniversaries

    Aug 27

    The exchanging or giving of wedding anniversary gifts is a tradition. So much so there is a list of 'traditional' anniversary gifts based on the number of years married and then the list of 'modern' anniversary gifts for each year. The list does each year from #1 to #15 then every five years. On this date, August 27th - is my 31st wedding annive...

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  • Port of Boston

    Aug 23

    Not all immigrants into America came through the New York City ports. Philadelphia, PA and Baltimore, MD had been traditional ports of entry for decades, especially in the 1700s and into the 1800s. In the south, the port of New Orleans was another popular entrance for those wanting to settle in the south or to go west.  Yet, your ancestors may ha...

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  • Viewing Voter Registration Forms

    Aug 19

    A most interesting resource that you might want to consider is checking in the hometown or county of your ancestors and see if you can locate their original voter registration. Many of these vintage records have been made digital or microfilmed and could be in the city and / county government voter offices or in their archives. They could be in the...

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  • Ways to Inspire Others to Learn their Family History

    Aug 12

    People who are not genealogists aren't always very interested in learning about their family history. Many see the research required as a tedious, time consuming, task. It looks a lot more like “homework” than like something that would be fun. Fortunately, there are ways to inspire people to learn their family history. The trick is to spark the...

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  • Passenger Lists – Philadelphia, PA

    Aug 5

    Related links on FamilyTree.com genealogy blogs: Ships Carrying Immigrants Japanese Immigration Castle Garden Not all our ancestors arrived in America in New York City. There have been numerous ports of entry along the eastern coast, southern and western portions. On FamilySearch.org, there are the arriving passenger lists for Philadelphia, P...

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  • Florida Marriage Records

    Aug 3

    Related links to FamilyTree.com genealogy blogs: Documents on FamilySearch.org Find Vital Records Info on FamilySearch.org Using FamilySearch.org, there is a collection of index information on marriages performed in Florida. It covers from 1830 to 1993, plus as more recent dates are indexed and made digital those will be added. If you have no...

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  • Sources of Death Records

    Aug 2

    It can be difficult to get an accurate death date, location and burial site on an ancestor. The following are a few suggestions of sources for death records. First, check any family documents, journals, diaries, vital records or collection of newspaper obituaries saved. It can be easily overlooked to even go though those boxes of family photos. Ri...

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