Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Had to look. I AM in the 23rd edition of Marquis Who's Who of American Women. 2002-2003.
If you're researching vital records the Who's who series lists birth, marriage and special event data. And remember [hopefully] it is supplied by the applicant making it 1st person information.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Color me Happy!. Now available
The Texas State Genealogical Society presents its quarterly journal Stirpes, dating from 1961 to 1990, that contains unpublished records and other materials whose purpose is to stimulate and support the research and teaching of genealogy.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Pictures of Davis property 1997. House is off the road several hundred feet. There is a path from NC15 that leads to the cemetery. Continue past the cemetery and you will arrive at the house after passing several outbuildings, including the two-seater outhouse. 

  Front entry between the two houses


 Fireplace in older house; notice low ceiling


Living area in new house which didn't fair as well as older section


 Side view; porch in darker section


 Another side view


Newer section


 Cousin Carol Hall, think it was cold?




 Older section; chimney



 Well



 Cemetery


Walkway into older section


 Cemetery


 Another porch view and you can see it is a 2 story building



 Chimney



Two hole outhouse.
On Dick Eastman's page, freebee that doesn't start until Monday
  • Findmypast makes entire collection of 65 million world military records free for eight days
  • All UK, Irish, Australian, Canadian and US military records free from 27th of June to 4th July , allowing researchers around the world the opportunity to learn more about the military heroes in their family
  • Includes free access to 32 million World War 1 records including 4.2 million British Army Service Records, over 5.8 million medal records, over 700,000 death records and over 27,000 Pals battalion records
  • Free access to all UK and Irish census records also included, allowing researches to discover what their military ancestors were doing prior to the outbreak of war

Monday, June 20, 2016

Crazy day fighting with TNG. I did get two gedcoms loaded so I now have 3 of 4 family groups available for researching. I just wish I could figure out what is snagging things up.
I also found out that individuals can be volunteers at the NGS Conference next year without paying to attend.  They won't be able to view the entire venue, but they can get to particular lectures they want if they are willing to volunteer to help as monitors!

Sunday, June 19, 2016

I've added the 1997 newsletters to the website Comet-Lines.com FRECOGS newsletters. And the Feb issue is complete. I had to start from an original copy because of a filing error.

Friday, June 17, 2016

I wrote the following in 1993:
Several years ago FRECOGs had Ronald BREMER as a speaker.  Among other things, he is editor of Genealogy Digest. I was going through some files and found my notes on records references he discussed.  He broke sources into 2 groups-Bad and Good.  The Bad list first: family tradition, printed family history, DAR lineage books, census, tombstone, death certificate, obituaries, general reference works, family groups sheets, and Adamic lineages.
    I can hear you mumbling, "What else is there?"  The good list:  Judicial court records, property transfer records, probate records, qualified vital records (birth, death, marriage, divorce, sexton records, adoption, founding, orphan court, and bastardy bonds), church records-denominational yearbooks, fraternal societies-Mason, alliances-as in immigrant, life insurance companies, military-adjunct general office and militia lists, and stories in newspapers-but not obituaries.
    Woe to you who use poor references-document your sources.