Start With What You Know
Family History – Tennie Bray – Part One Start with what you know. Genealogy research is like any other, research from known to unknown proving each link along the way. Interview living members of the family with specific questions...
Read moreWWII Ration Books at Christmas- Start With What You Know
Start with what you know. Research from known to unknown proving each link along the way. Interview living members of the family (over and over again) asking specific questions and other times just for a free flow of memories....
Read moreIt’s All About Migration – Washington State Digital Archives
The Washington State Digital Archives has wonderful digitized images of vital records from the state including a nice selection of marriage records, returns and certificates. Why should you care especially if the family you are searching settled on the...
Read moreKay McDowell or Research, Linked Genealogies, Friends, and the Internet – Part Two
When I first moved from Ohio to Colorado, I knew the group of people I would miss the most, was not from work or even neighbors, but my research buddies, Martha Whitehouse, Sue Hawkes Cook, Ronna Bryant, Elizabeth Schearer,...
Read moreResearch, Linked Genealogies, Friends, and the Internet – Part One
Last Thursday, 1 December 2011, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal about genealogy by Alina Dizek. Like too many of the Journal’s recent articles, it was longer on pictures and shorter on facts than the old...
Read moreHeirloom Gifts
My dear friend Kim suggested I offer special Holiday Heirloom Gifts, research on a favorite ancestor with a client supplied photograph and background facts, and the research, documents and report supplied by me. At first it seemed curious, but...
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