ancestors
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Send Free Vintage Postcards as e-cards
Jul 8
The WikiTree.com site has recently added a very nice feature -- one where you can send from their collection a free vintage postcard as an e-card to anyone with an email address. I just sent a birthday e-card today for my cousin, who turns 70 years old today. It is not just birthday postcards available, but a large range of postcards. At the turn ...
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Evernote & Google Keep for Storage
Jul 5
With many people having a computer, tablet, laptop, Smartphone or I-Phone, it has been very easy to make and keep handy notes, photos and information. Anyone working on their family history does need a convenient method of collecting information on relatives, then storage. One of methods to assist this technology is a software program titled '...
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Order Military Pension Records at National Archives
Jul 1
Once you have figured out one of your ancestors served in the United States military, you do need to see if there are any pension records housed at the US National Archives. The online site 'Genealogy Research in Military' just might prove to be invaluable in gathering more information on that ancestor. It is not just those who served in times of ...
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Lost Skills and Talents of Our Ancestors
Jun 27
Just like many household and general items, such as the freestanding public telephone booths, are disappearing because there is now something newer and better (personal cell phones and smart phones), so too are some skills our ancestors possessed that are no longer needed or practiced. The housewives of yesteryear used some form of an hot iron t...
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New York State Newspapers
Jun 25
The state of New York has a long history, being one of the original 13 colonies of the 1770s. So it is very possible you have ancestors who may have lived in some part of New York. Newspapers are one of the best sources for information on our ancestors, especially the local hometown papers. Available at the Fulton History web site are some 639 d...
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Free Scanning Photos – FamilySearch
Jun 23
You have been putting off scanning those treasured family photos and documents. Now FamilySearch.org has made it very easy for everyone to achieve this very needed preservation. At the over 2,800 Family History Centers across North America, FamilySearch has placed the new Lexmark MFPS scanners. They are very simple to operate and now make it ve...
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Oral Family History
Jun 21
The authorities at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D. C. had stated that “it only takes three generations to lose a piece of oral family history.” Our ancestors, especially because they many times did not read or write, had only oral history as a method to hand down family events, names and stories. So it was co...
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Languages Across the United States
Jun 19
Generally you think of everyone speaking English in the United States, in the past and today. If you had ancestors coming from Italy at the beginning of the 20th Century, they may have never learned English and only their children or grandchildren were the first to speak English and also know and understand Italian. This same situation happened ...
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Important Reasons to Learn About your Family History
Jun 18
Genealogy involves a lot of research. Time is spent tracking down birth certificates, military records, marriage certificates, and other official documents that contain hard facts about your ancestors. Don't forget the softer side of genealogy! There are so many important reasons to learn about your family history. A website called A Place For M...
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Scapple – Rough Out the Family Story
Jun 13
Scribbling -- who hasn't done that?? That is where you quickly write out a phrase, name, term, or short sentence so that will not be forgotten. You may have placed them on scraps of paper and now those are in numerous places and in no order. Using your computer, there is a British firm which has developed an easier method to keep track of your...