Georgia, Ohio, Texas and Washington Death Records

I’ve spent quite a few hours on FamilySearch labs over the past few weeks gathering death records to add to the sourcing of records in my databases.  see http://www.familysearchlabs.org
If you haven’t visited the site for a while, you will be surprised at the list of titles that have been indexed by volunteers over the [...]

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I Saw A Man Engraving…

The batteries in my camera died while I was taking photos of headstones recently. I heard another vehicle park near me while replacing the batteries and looked to see if it someone I knew. It was just a MAV (mother’s assault vehicle or mini-van to most of you) with a small trailer behind [...]

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I Met A Veteran Today

The weather was warm and the sun was bright in the hours before the next spring storm rolled into the valley.
I decided to spend a few hours taking photos of headstones and posting them on Find-a-grave and Footnote taking advantage of a Pay-It-Forward opportunity.  
Sometimes you just have to walk away from a complex problem [...]

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Research Party

Tonight 60 young folks from our area gathered together in a family history research party. They were looking for any of their ancestors who were pioneers in the western U.S. or who came to America in ‘interesting’ ways.
That doesn’t sound much different than any of us does it?
We are all searching for our [...]

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Town History Books

I first started looking for second great grandma Mary Farrar in 1966, knowing very little about her other than her possible name. She was born on the far northern border of New Hampshire in the 1820’s to Seth and Azubah Chandler Tirrill.
My mother found one of my fathers cousins in California by mailing letters [...]

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