You may have noticed that several of my posts start with a question. If we as family historians start with a focused research question our time spent can be much more productive than if we let the “wind blow us here and there.” It is super exciting to find a new ancestor in our tree but that can’t be the outcome each time we sit down to research. It can be just as exciting filling…
Annie Elizabeth Evans wanted them in the schools in Brooklyn, New York in the 1890’s. How do I know? Because I found an article about that at The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper website. She was the president of the local Parents League (a pre-cursor to PTOs) and hosted a meeting about using this technology in the schools. (Find out more about stereopticons at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereopticon ) Annie Elizabeth Evans married George Weightman in 1865 and setup…
We usually think of a name as a genealogical “solid.” Once we locate a name for an ancestor, we hold on tight, don’t let go, and miss out on a lot of information about our family. If we are researching from more recently in time to further back in time (proceeding in an order; not jumping around) we typically find an ancestor’s parents on a death record or a probate record of a more recent…
I was generously gifted a small stack of photos from the late 1800’s through the 1940’s containing images of some of my Reeds and Millers. These photos are postcard sized and smaller and I have not added them to my FamilySearch Tree because I didn’t feel like scanning them on my flatbed. (Apparently I was not gifted with enough energy for the task.) But today as I thumbed through the stack I decided to just…