It’s Mother’s Day again and it’s appropriate that I write short blog about the mothers in my life. There are four women who I’m going to single out this Mother’s Day - one living and three who have passed on.
I want to start with Patty, my wife, and mother of my two sons. She’s the [...]
One of the resources that we were informed about on January 8 when the bloggers visited Ancestry.com was the 1950 census substitute. Ancestry.com announced this last week that the resource was now posted.
This “substitute” for the yet-to-be-released 1950 census is made up of about 2500 city directories. My first foray into the collection was [...]
As I’ve written before, our family spent a fair amount of time in the national parks over the years. A lot of memories were made there. The current 6th Edition of the Festival of Postcards encourages us to blog about a postcard we might have that includes something VERY white. Although tinged with blue, my [...]
Randy challenged us to do a blog about the nicest thing another genealogist has ever done for us. Goodness - that list could go on forever, but on my part I’m going to go way back in time to mention a New York town historian who went way beyond the call of duty for me.
Many [...]
Update - as Oxa points out in the comments, I seem to have been reading the map wrong. Just because a map shows no persons living in Utah by the name of Meitzler doesn’t necessarily mean that no Meitzler’s were picked up in the distribution. As he also points out, “innumeracy still prevails in this [...]
Dollarhide and I are about to check out of a hotel in Reno, Nevada - and head for Redding, California, where we set up for the 2009 California Family History Expo this afternoon.
On the way, we will be stopping off in Chico, where my Uncle Merle Feller (mom’s brother) is setting on his girlfriend’s mantle. [...]
This post is number 1001 since I got GenealogyBlog up and running again in January. So I just thought I should celebrate a bit this evening. Here’s hoping that the last 1000 blogs were of interest and of use to my readers - and maybe even helped some of you advance your genealogy a bit.
I [...]
Ouch - Randy recommended that we write about a childhood memory this evening. So here goes…
As a very young child (under 5), our family (Theodore, Virginia, Beverly, Steve, and I), went to church every Saturday at a very tiny Seventh-day Adventist church in Enumclaw, Washington. I can’t remember for sure where it [...]
This is my first little essay for The Carnival of Genealogy. In all these years, while I had a “real job,” I resisted getting involved. It was most likely a mistake, but that’s water under the bridge. I’m probably best known for my mistakes anyway. :>)
My uncle, Merle Feller, was born on the 2nd of [...]
The recession is taking its toll on funerals… I hadn’t thought about it too much, but when my brother passed away on Feb. 21, I found that he had opted for cremation instead of being buried next to his father in Albany, Oregon. From what I’m told, he walked in the door a month [...]
There’s an interesting blog titled “Family skeletons detrimental to healing” posted on the ScienceBlog website that set me to thinking… Genealogists seem to love to drag out the family skeletons. Good old adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, and even a murder now and then all seems to get the true genealogist all fired up to find [...]
UPDATE: As of May 26, 2009, the Nationwide Grave Locator website is down - thus the following link will not work. I can find no further information on the subject - and figure that this is most likely temporary - but it’s not been working for a few days now.
The Department of Veteran’s affairs [...]
A while back I downloaded the death certificate from the Cook County Genealogy Online website for a cousin whose name was Albert Schaaf. He died April 26, 1935 in Chicago. According to the Death Certificate he was buried in the Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois - along with hundreds of thousands of [...]
UPDATE:
See Dee Bird’s tribute to Neil - and his obituary at her blog.
My brother, Herbert “Neil” Meitzler, passed away last evening. The family was there beside him to ease his journey - but looking back on the experience, I’m not so sure that the watch wasn’t only for him, but for the family as a [...]
John D. Reid, with Anglo Celtic Connections posted a blog today announcing the fact that Bill Arthurs has a great new Titus family website up and running. Having Titus family ancestry myself, I got fired up upon reading that blog, and clicked over to check it out.
I have hundreds of files of Titus family data, [...]
