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The theme for the 57th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is news, specifically newspapers. Newspapers can be a wonderful source of family history information. Share some aspect about your family history that you learned about in a newspaper. Articles, advertisements, obituaries, classified ads, photos… all are fair game if they appeared in a newspaper. Don’t be shy now, show us what you’ve got! What did you learn about your family from this information? Was the information accurate? How did you learn about this information… online search? Perusing old newspapers? […]

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

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

In a recent post, I stated that I was going to create a disaster plan to figure out what is important for me to save if a disaster were to occur.  I challenged others to do the same and will post their responses in a post next week.  In the meantime, here are the family treasures I would risk saving in the event of a disaster. Family Bible This Bible was given to Sarah Norton WEBSTER (my 3rd great-grandmother) by her father Calvin Price WEBSTER in 1850.  It’s very old, […]

Taking a cue from Thomas MacEntee’s “On This Day” posts at his blog Destination: Austin Family, I am starting a regular post called “Family Events.”  Instead of doing this for each day like Thomas does, I am going to post on Sunday’s for the upcoming week.  So, here’s the debut of “Family Events!”