Posted in research sites on Sep 8th, 2008
Did you know that Google has a News Archive Search? I didn’t until today. I don’t know the specifics as far as how many newspapers and how far back the archives go, but a quick search for news about Robert Kennedy’s 1968 assassination brought back this from the St Petersburg (FL) Evening Independent:
My search term [...]
Posted in events, research sites on Aug 16th, 2008
Actually more like tree-work. I updated my RootsWeb WorldConnect database and my WeRelate page this morning. Also working on a Genea-Blogger Group Games event. Just a quiet Saturday at my house…
Posted in research sites on Jul 25th, 2008
A huge Thank You to Linda Goebel and the folks at Find A Grave. I now have an image of the headstone of Dr F B Appling, and an obit!
Posted in research sites on Jul 22nd, 2008
The Library of Virginia website has many online bible records- the scanned images. There are a lot of Lee bible images. Are they my Lees? I sure hope so, so I want to make this a reminder to search their records in depth when I look at my Lee ancestors. I hope to find Robert [...]
Posted in research sites on Jul 3rd, 2008
This evening, I finally got a chance to really examine the Confederate records of my 3rd great grand-uncle, Dr John F Kennedy. Most of the 50 documents that I downloaded from Footnote.com a few days ago are pay vouchers and the like. But one document in particular grabbed my attention:
Notice his signature and what is [...]
Posted in publishing, research sites on Jun 26th, 2008
…downloading Dr John F Kennedy’s NARA file to my hard drive, along with all the other goodies I have found on Footnote in the past several days. Why? You see, it’s like this….(remember the Saturday Night Live skits about Wayne’s World? The part where Wayne and Garth fade away into their day dreams (usually about [...]
Posted in research sites on Jun 21st, 2008
To start off with, I’m a bit slow sometimes…
I know that Footnote.com has the Confederate Civil War records for several states and also for their officers “at large”, those men “who did not belong to any particular regiment, separate company or comparable unit, or special corps.” But I thought that these databases where only indexes. [...]
Posted in research sites on Jun 14th, 2008
I am currently putting an OpenOffice Impress presentation together (equivalent to PowerPoint, but free!) of Isaac Turner’s Pension file. I went surfing this morning looking for an advertisement from the 1890’s for the law firm that represented Sarah Turner in the pension claim process, N W Wills & Co of Washington, DC. Trying to add [...]
Posted in research sites on Jun 12th, 2008
Beginning on 19 Sep 1890 and finalized on 4 Dec 1893, Sarah S Turner’s application and supporting documents required to file for and receive her husband Isaac Turner’s Union Civil War Pension totals 57 pages:
Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Pensions- 23 pages
Depositions- 24 pages from 5 people, including 8 pages mostly hand-written [...]
Posted in research sites on Jun 8th, 2008
Not my death certificate, but those of my ancestors in Texas!
I have located and downloaded a total of 44 death certificates. There are still several more I want to look for, but I had to sleep and eat and go to work. Life is so difficult…
Ken from Beyond Fiction asks an interesting question:
“I’m just [...]
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