Julie's Genealogy & History Hub

Prompt:  Take a genealogy day trip and blog about it. Discover the local history and genealogy in your area. Take a trip to a cemetery or other historic location. Describe the day, what you learned, where you went, how it looked, how it sounded. Armchair genealogists will love the mini travelogue.

This postcard was rescued from the Antique Mall in El Paso, Illinois, by me, on 05 October 2008. The message reads: Harold Leslie Nelson to ____ Paula There is no other identifying information, postmark, date, or location. Any takers?  Any ideas as to when this was taken?

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

Prompt:  Participate in weekly blog themes: Tombstone Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, etc. Many genealogy bloggers post photos of grave stones on Tombstone Tuesday or a photo worth 1,000 silent words on Wordless Wednesday. Participate in these informal events or invent your own. This week, I faithfully participated in two of my own personal ones. Family Events – Thomas over at Destination: Austin Family was doing a daily post of BMDs at his blog.  Knowing that I couldn’t possible do this each day, I decided to fashion my own version in a […]

The last few weeks I have been preparing to apply for membership into the Daughters of the American Revolution.  So I had to pull out the Webster family Bible wherein my legacy resides.  The Bible belonged to my third great-grandmother, Sarah Norton WEBSTER.  It was given to her in 185[3] as a gift from her father, Calvin Price WEBSTER.  It is in critical condition, so this is only the second time I’ve opened it, as I needed to gather some final sources for my DAR application.

When I started with my family history, I was blessed to have a compile genealogy on my dad’s side. Unfortunately, it was not sourced, and therefore, I am in search of actual sources to prove/disprove the information compiled. After I entered all of the information into my database, I started to search for other information, using primarily Family Search and Ancestry. I added the additional information that I came across, and moved onto other things.

This postcard photo was rescued from the Antique Mall in El Paso, Illinois, by me, on 05 October 2008. Addressee:  George Summer Myers, Hastings, Michigan, c/o Royal Myers Postmark:  Probably Mottville, Michigan (although not 100% legible), 13 January 1915 Signed:  Aunt Grace

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.