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Learning about cemetery records from Southgate, Campbell, Kentucky

Genealogy In Action with Julie Cahill Tarr

Exploring Historic Indiana Atlases at Indiana Memory https://digital.library.in.gov

Another case solved. Previous results are no guarantee of future results.

Sixty year old had already taken a DNA test and only wanted to find out ethnicity and ancestor lines. They couldn't decipher what the test was showing so came to me.

As standard beginning discussion they were warned that the DNA test and my work may show some surprises such as unknown parentage for them or their parents or other relatives.

First match was a half-sibling that "just couldn't be." Match was responsive and swore they knew the answer. I got sidetracked by their "answer" for a bit. When I stepped back and let the DNA do the leading I found that my client's daddy was not their father. Turns out my client has at least 5 half siblings and where my client always felt the most comfortable is where most of their new family lives.

Genealogy In Action with Julie Cahill Tarr

Irish census records
The real challenge was getting to the censuses for me, if you have trouble I used safari on my phone (can't install to pc), took screen shots of the pages and emailed them to myself so I could look at them on the computer.

Genealogy In Action with Julie Cahill Tarr

Pennsylvania Wills Books
Genealogy In Action with Julie Cahill Tarr

Genealogy In Action with Julie Cahill Tarr

I love this scavenger hunt, it only takes like an hour if you listen to the video explanations after, I see some different record sets and it’s a nice brain diversion from my regular research helping me to think differently

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SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT - Melissa Barker with a talk titled 'Breathing New Life into Your Boring Ancestors'

Buy your ticket here: https://www.thegenealogyshowlive.com/plans/show-tickets/

The 12 Best German Genealogy Websites Dive into millions of church records, immigration documents, gazetteers, maps and more with these top German genealogy websites.

The Home Archivist: Preserving Your Ancestor's Records Join us for a FREE, virtual program on Tuesday, November 29th at 2:30 PM EST!

When I was in history class in high school, I had no idea just how connected I was to what I was learning. Also, some of the historical facts I was taught have changed with the advancement of technology and science.

First, what the heck is a newspaper photo morgue? Well, it's a collection of photos, both published and unpublished, held by newspaper publishers for use in their issues.

Why on earth am I sharing this resource? Well, a person posted in a genealogy Facebook group that she had found some newspaper articles with photos and wondered if she'd be able to find higher quality photos elsewhere. Having interned at a daily newspaper back in the day, I immediately thought of the photo morgue and suggested she contact the newspaper if it was still in print (it was, and there is even a request form on their website for such inquires!).

With newspapers folding in the digital age, I wondered what was happening to those millions upon millions of photos collected over the years. It was through that search that I came upon this resource put together by the Library of Congress. It's a listing of institutions in the US and Canada that have at least one newspaper photo morgue among their collection. Very handy list!

When the newspaper is still operational (and you may have to do a "genealogy" of sorts to find what it may be called today), you can start with an inquiry to the newspaper asking if they do indeed have their photo collection. If they don't, they can tell you where it's held, assuming they archived it and didn't destroy it. Another route is to check the holdings of local archives in and around the area where a newspaper was published.

For the Library of Congress listing, head here 👇
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/newsmorgues.html

Today is Quicksheet Saturday!

Don't have a photo of your ancestor? So how do we know what our ancestors looked like if there are no identified photos? Well, there are several artifacts that are available to family historians and genealogists that at least describe their physical characteristics.

Here are "13 Ways to Find Physical Characteristics Without Photos"

Download the Free PDF at https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/13-ways-to-find-physical-characteristics-without-photos/

Yes You Are 😉

We’re galavanting off to CHICAGO soon. Will we see you there? Or would you like us to look something up / pick something up for you while we’re there? Pictures?
On the itinerary are Circuit Court at 50 west Washington and the Newberry library

Yup

Always such good classes

Which will you choose?

Hard choice for me

We are excited to announce Applied Genealogy Institute's courses for its Spring 2023 classes. It's a great line up. Who can resist Michelle's Criminal Records or Lisa's sessions on the records created at death. And if you are thinking about self-publishing....you can and you will publish something in Jill's course! Leah's course is always a favorite and we bring you Canadian Kathryn Hogan to talk about Ontario records. Registration is 18-24 January 2023. Hope to see you there!