Tag Archives: Theme: Genealogy By the States

I have a few distant cousins who landed in Idaho, although many proceeded onto Washington.  So this week, I thought I’d share some Idaho resources that I know of.  If you know of others, please feel free to leave them in the comments of this post. Idaho State Archives University of Idaho Library – Special Collections and Archives BYU (Idaho) – Special Collections Idaho Genealogical Society Idaho Historical Society Historical Record Collections for Idaho @ FamilySearch Idaho GenWeb Idaho @ FamilySearch Wiki Idaho @ Wikipedia Genealogy By the States is […]

I actually have many people in my database that eventually ended up in Washington.  Unfortunately, most of those are very distant cousins that I haven’t done a lot of research on.  I do however have a fairly close family who lived in Spokane, Washington for a brief period of time.  My half second great-grandaunt, Margaret Murnane, married William E King 16 February 1898 in Chicago, Illinois.  They were certainly in Spokane by June 1900, when they were enumerated in the census.  They had a child in Spokane a few months […]

If you have family that lived in South Dakota, and you haven’t already checked out the state censuses for 1905 to 1945, you must head over to FamilySearch and do so now! For each of these five censuses, each person is enumerated on their own card that contains a ton of useful information.  The 1905 census has great information, but 1915-1945 uses the same card that has fantastic information, including wife’s maiden name, year or marriage, and military service (with details).

Lots of very distant cousins ended up in North Dakota, but most of my “research” is based on information from another researcher.  So instead of discussing that, I thought I’d take a look at some websites related to North Dakota genealogy or history. Sadly, I only have three websites on my Diigo list for North Dakota.  Among them was one for the State Historical Society of North Dakota.  After a little exploring, I found an interesting project they are working on and thought I’d talk about it in hopes of […]

  Back in 2011, I wrote about a new development pertaining to the research of Philip Rottman in And all the Stars Aligned.  Basically, I discovered that there was some truth to a notation my grandmother made about Philip and a story my cousin Barbara was told, both of which led me to discover Philip’s place of death in Golden, Colorado. In preparation for this post, I decided to revisit the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection website to see if any newspapers had been added or if I had previously missed […]

  This week I decided to take a look at Nebraska Memories, which “is a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them available to researchers….”  There are several categories to choose from including Maps, Towns, Government, and my favorite, Portraits.

I really don’t have much in the way of family tied to Nevada.  But seeing as my tenth wedding anniversary is approaching, I thought I share a quick post related to my parent’s fifth wedding anniversary trip to Las Vegas.

I only have a few people in my database that are connected to West Virginia.  And by a few, I mean I can count them on one hand.  While I was filling in a few missing pieces on those people, I learned that the West Virginia Archives & History website has digitized many vital records, including marriages.