Book Review – Time Traveller’s Handbook: A Guide to the Past

Title:  Time Traveller’s Handbook: A Guide to the Past Author:  Althea Douglas Format:  Paperback and Kindle Published:  2011 Synopsis:  (from Amazon)  Do you know how long it took to sail across the Atlantic Ocean? Was it faster from east to west or west to east? […]

Orphan Photo #85

I wonder who these adorable children are…unfortunately, we may never know.

Free Photo Webinar

Photo Detective, Maureen Taylor, presents a 30-minute webinar entitled, Photo Detective Live:  Solutions to Your Photo Mysteries.  In the webinar, she discussed how to use photo type, clothing and background as clues to dating and identifying photos.  She also discusses the preservation of photos.  To […]

FVGS Fall Conference in Naperville, Featuring Christine Rose

On Saturday, September 24, 2011, the Fox Valley Genealogical Society will hosts its 18th annual fall conference in Naperville, Illinois.  This year’s theme is “Building a Better Pedigree” and features the one and only, Christine Rose.

Casefile Clues for Beginners

Michael John Neill recently announced a new publication called Casefile Clues for Beginners.  I’m sure if it’s anything like Casefile Clues, it will be a great publication.  Kudos to Michael on this new endeavor!

Wow! I Actually Won?

You may recall my Facebook status a few months back indicating I had some great news to share but couldn’t at the time because it hadn’t been officially announced.  Well, on May 11th, it was official…I took 3rd Place in Category 5 (unpublished work by […]

Illinois Genealogical/Historical Societies Using Social Media

**An up-to-date listing can be found in my list “Societies Using Social Media” at the social bookmarking website, Diigo.** As I was preparing a contact list for Illinois genealogical and historical societies for an FGS publicity task, I made an interesting discovery.  A fair number […]

Orphan Photo #84

There is no identifying information for the couple photographed in this CDV.