Genealogy By the States – Week 33 – Oregon

Most of my relatives who came from Luxembourg and ended up in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, remained there (many to this day).  There is one, however, who left Aurora and moved to Portland, Oregon.  I have no idea why he moved there, and so far, just […]

Federation Of Genealogical Societies Announces 2015 Conference

Big news!  The FGS 2015 Conference and RootsTech2015 will be held together in Salt Lake City, Utah from February 12-14, 2015.  Details in the press release below. Federation Of Genealogical Societies Announces 2015 Conference FGS and RootsTech Events To Be Held In Tandem February 12-14, […]

Diane C. Loosle Named Director of Family History Library

Below is a press release I received from FamilySearch earlier today announcing a new director, Diane Loosle, for the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.  GeneaBloggers had a chance to meet Diane last night at the Blogger’s Dinner hosted by FamilySearch.  The projects […]

Orphan Photo #159

Not sure who is photographed here as there is no identifying information.  It looks like the photographer’s imprint reads “Armstrong.”

Friday Finds – 08/16/13

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

Tip for German Research – Write it Out…in GERMAN!

There are plenty of guides out there that show the German alphabet, in the Fraktur, Sütterlin, and Kurrent styles.  These guides can really help you when trying to decipher old documents that use the German language.  One that I find useful can be found here […]

Genealogy By the States – Week 32 – Minnesota

I don’t do much research for Minnesota, although I do have some very distant cousins who have lived there at one time or another.  Instead of working on those distant families, I wanted to see what types of online collections were available.  For those with […]

FGS 2013 & ACPL Checklist

So instead of doing a “packing” list for my upcoming trip to the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) 2013 Conference and Allen County Public Library (ACPL), I thought I’d post my to-do list.  These are things I needed to do to prepare for the conference […]