In reply to Amy Johnson Crow. My immigrant mother-in-law was learning E...
In reply to jerseycowdoc. That is so neat! Thanks for sharing!
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I found out my aunt was the school secretary . Even her sons had no idea she did that. It was only for 1 year as she got pregnant and had to quit. It was the 1926 yearbook for Mount Gilead School...
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This list met my needs this morning. Thanks for sharing the ideas for taking a break from the actual searching. I usually need to "take a breath" and relax after long sessions of research. Sort o...
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I find this surprising and despicable. I’ve had trouble getting Memorial managers who manage in excess of 70,000 memorials-yes-seventy-thousand to allow me to make edits (with my sources listed...
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Not in writing mode. Thanks for the ideas. Maybe I'll get urge to get back in it.
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My parents had to downsize when they moved so I inherited more of the mementos of my childhood that I wanted (think ribbons, medals, awards). They kept some of the photographs when I was really y...
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Years ago when I was still taking research clients, I found a death record in the land records for the county in which the deceased once lived. Under "Affidavits" in the property index, I found a...
Amy- my situation is unique- grandfather born in Baton Rouge or New Orleans in 1909. Can't find anything on him. His father was supposedly a train robber who was shot. Can't find anything and I d...
Pennsylvania did not begin civil vital records until 1906! Have been trying to trace the death records of a gt gm who family stories say died because she was struck by a train in Northampton coun...
6. Death occurred outside of dates of available digital or public records. I have a great grand aunt who died in the 1980s. I have an unsourced family tree someone did that says she died at Topek...
I live in northern California, and there is a grave out in the wilderness here, from the 1800's, with a wooden headstone, which is barely legible at this point. I discovered it in 1970, when I wa...
This was a very useful video and I've bookmarked the whole site. I used it to ties facts about my great-grandfather's civil war service with regimental histories. I will check the sources to conf...
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The epitaph is a variation from this poem in Petersons Magazine from 1857. Verses were often "borrowed" and altered to fit the circumstances. "Her waxen hands I've placed over her pulseless breas...
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All good ideas! Vast majority of photos on Findagrave.com are so bad they are unusable. I would add also the importance of parallax control. If you don't know what it is you are probably taking p...
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Hi, Amy. This is a very good blog post. I agree with your suggestions. Sometimes, finding a specific tombstone in a large cemetery is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That is powerful inc...
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Very useful! Your photos can also help when you see a later photo on Find a Grave and the cemetery has changed drastically. My favourite photo of my Mother is taken while she is recording informa...
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I have been an Ontario Ancestors member for 40 years and chair an our local Branch - thus as you Amy, know my way around cemetery research. I went on Find A Grave to check my families Stone to fi...
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Ever since I found my 4th great grandfather’s grave in a forest. I have learned to take not only the grave but the site entrance, any road sign. I forgot on his wife’s grave which is in a tim...
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I got started in genealogy long before computers were invented, so I usually made a note if the cemetery was connected to a church, or if in a farmer's field being plowed around, or a family plot...
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