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EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES There is a list of names that are extinct. It includes Bread, Spinster, Chips, Rummage, Pussett, Temples, Wellbelove, Hatman and Bytheseashore. Know anyone with those names – hardly. Other names with just a few individuals include Fernsby, Rushlands, Berrycloth, Dankworth, Birdwhistle, Relish and Tumbler. These names are quicklybecoming
ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
MESSAGE BOARDS AT ROOTSWEB Due to the wide-spread use of the Internet and the access people around the globe have to computers the use of ‘Message Boards’ like that are found on Rootsweb are marvelous references for locating data, records and hints to other sources previously unknown. Not just for certain ancestors is the message board useful, but for COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM The new online site ‘ MooseRoots ‘ (a genealogical search engine) has several different historical records for you look over. There are US Census records, Vital records (birth-marriage-divorce-death and cemetery), Immigration and Naturalization records, military records (American and Canadian), plus a general reference category with US ARMY SERIAL NUMBERS 9 = Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington. 0 = When the first number is 3, the zero means he was drafted outside the U.S. (301 indicates Panama; 302 indicates Puerto Rico) See if you can locate your ancestors’ serial number or their‘dog tags’.
CREATE A FAMILY HISTORY WEBSITE Once you narrow what portion of the family tree you want to share, decide what style. You can make it just a straight lineage providing names, locations, dates, marriages and children. Add photo if you want or the scanned vital records. You could write a compete family history, as if you were telling a story. FAMILY SURNAMES STARTING WITH THE LETTER Family Surnames Starting with the Letter - Learn the meaning of afamily surname.
EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES There is a list of names that are extinct. It includes Bread, Spinster, Chips, Rummage, Pussett, Temples, Wellbelove, Hatman and Bytheseashore. Know anyone with those names – hardly. Other names with just a few individuals include Fernsby, Rushlands, Berrycloth, Dankworth, Birdwhistle, Relish and Tumbler. These names are quicklybecoming
ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
MESSAGE BOARDS AT ROOTSWEB Due to the wide-spread use of the Internet and the access people around the globe have to computers the use of ‘Message Boards’ like that are found on Rootsweb are marvelous references for locating data, records and hints to other sources previously unknown. Not just for certain ancestors is the message board useful, but for COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM The new online site ‘ MooseRoots ‘ (a genealogical search engine) has several different historical records for you look over. There are US Census records, Vital records (birth-marriage-divorce-death and cemetery), Immigration and Naturalization records, military records (American and Canadian), plus a general reference category with US ARMY SERIAL NUMBERS 9 = Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington. 0 = When the first number is 3, the zero means he was drafted outside the U.S. (301 indicates Panama; 302 indicates Puerto Rico) See if you can locate your ancestors’ serial number or their‘dog tags’.
BLOG | FAMILYTREE.COM DNA. FamilyTree.com is a genealogy, ancestry, and family tree research website. We offer reviews, articles, surname research, and genealogy advice. Genealogy tips for the beginner to the advanced researcher. Find site reviews, technology tips, DIY family tree ideas, information on cultural and local heritage, and an active social community. EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES There is a list of names that are extinct. It includes Bread, Spinster, Chips, Rummage, Pussett, Temples, Wellbelove, Hatman and Bytheseashore. Know anyone with those names – hardly. Other names with just a few individuals include Fernsby, Rushlands, Berrycloth, Dankworth, Birdwhistle, Relish and Tumbler. These names are quicklybecoming
FAMILY SURNAMES STARTING WITH THE LETTER Family Surnames Starting with the Letter - Learn the meaning of afamily surname.
FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND The reason was due to the COVID-19 virus. In June of 2020, FamilySearch has started making reopening plans for the FamilySearch Libraries and Centers that had been closed. FamilySearch is following the lead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, governments and healthcare professionals around the world as it considers a measuredMORMON GENEALOGY
Mormon Genealogy. A combination of Christian religious teachings, family and culture are the backbone of Mormonism. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which started with Joseph Smith, Jr. in the 1820s in New York in the United States. After Joseph Smith’s death, the Mormon followers were led to their promised land by NATIVE AMERICAN GENEALOGY Native American Indians are the indigenous people of the North and South American region. All the hundreds of tribes are quite varied in their languages, foods, clothing, homes and crafts. However, there are several traits that they all hold in common. An essential element in Native American genealogy is that the people kept their ownTHE SILVER SPOONS
The use of spoons for cooking and eating with has for centuries involved wooden spoons. Some even used spoons made of horn, bone or ceramic. Metal was reserved for horseshoes, wagon parts, keys and locks; not spoons. By the 1600s metal spoons started to HOW MANY ARE DIRECT ANCESTORS IN YOUR FAMILY TREE Go back ten generations to approximately the early 1700s and there alone are some 1,024 direct ancestors. Another 100 years back to the early 1600s and now the figure is 16,384 direct ancestors — Wow. True, it is hard to locate all those direct ancestors. Most people are happy to find to their great grandparents but it is not impossible. MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM The new online site ‘ MooseRoots ‘ (a genealogical search engine) has several different historical records for you look over. There are US Census records, Vital records (birth-marriage-divorce-death and cemetery), Immigration and Naturalization records, military records (American and Canadian), plus a general reference category with BRITISH CONVICTS IN AMERICAN COLONIES British Convicts In American Colonies. The British were noted for transported prisoners out of England to be made to work at their numerous colonies. From 1615 to 1870, more than 200,000 criminals were conditionally pardoned, exiled, and transported to penal colonies. Before 1775, more than 50,000 prisoners were sent to America—primarily toOLDEST SURNAMES
The family surname or also called the ‘family name’ or ‘last name’ is very important as you do your family research. It is the keyword or phrase as you begin because it is what ties a family together. Not that you won’t have many surnames on that family tree due to female’s maiden name and FAMILY REUNION 'MUSTS' Need ideas for this summertime — well it is a great opportunity to arrange a family reunion. It doesn’t have to super large, it could even be a certain family branch. LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S With the Great Depression during the 1930s, you did have ancestors directly affected by lack of paying jobs, not enough money which meant not enough food for the table. But your ancestors of the 1930s did come up with ideas to help the food situation. Many grocery storestrying to
CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have any type of collection of family photos, history, documents, journals, letters, vital records or written family history, you will want to see that your surviving family knows your wishes as to what happens to those items. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE It can be a bit frustrating when you can not find any record or certificate or even obituary for an ancestor’s death. There can be some logical reasons why there is no death record that you have found yet. If you look at some possible reasons why you might not find it,then you have
MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM It is always interesting to explore a different database, see what it might contain that you have not found to date. Even if there are records you have looked at, if doesn’t hurt to re-examine those same census records, death certificates, military records – just in case you overlooked something. COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO Any family historian is always thrilled to have any style photo of their ancestor. With the birth of a photo image with its many different formats over the 19th century it is interesting to see just what our relatives many have paid to have this 'newest' invention capture their image. BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
JAMESTOWN ANCESTORS
On banks of the James River on May 14, 1607, 104 men and boys set foot on what would soon become Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. Nine months later the first of women and children arrived to the colony. Only 38 of the 104 original settlers were still alive by January 1608mostly due to
FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND In April of 2020, FamilySearch made the decision to temporarily close its Family History Libraries and Centers. The reason was due to theCOVID-19 virus.
OLDEST SURNAMES
The family surname or also called the ‘family name’ or ‘last name’ is very important as you do your family research. It is the keyword or phrase as you begin because it is what ties a family together. Not that you won’t have many surnames on that family tree due to female’s maiden name and FAMILY REUNION 'MUSTS' Need ideas for this summertime — well it is a great opportunity to arrange a family reunion. It doesn’t have to super large, it could even be a certain family branch. LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S With the Great Depression during the 1930s, you did have ancestors directly affected by lack of paying jobs, not enough money which meant not enough food for the table. But your ancestors of the 1930s did come up with ideas to help the food situation. Many grocery storestrying to
CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have any type of collection of family photos, history, documents, journals, letters, vital records or written family history, you will want to see that your surviving family knows your wishes as to what happens to those items. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE It can be a bit frustrating when you can not find any record or certificate or even obituary for an ancestor’s death. There can be some logical reasons why there is no death record that you have found yet. If you look at some possible reasons why you might not find it,then you have
MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM It is always interesting to explore a different database, see what it might contain that you have not found to date. Even if there are records you have looked at, if doesn’t hurt to re-examine those same census records, death certificates, military records – just in case you overlooked something. COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO Any family historian is always thrilled to have any style photo of their ancestor. With the birth of a photo image with its many different formats over the 19th century it is interesting to see just what our relatives many have paid to have this 'newest' invention capture their image. BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
JAMESTOWN ANCESTORS
On banks of the James River on May 14, 1607, 104 men and boys set foot on what would soon become Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. Nine months later the first of women and children arrived to the colony. Only 38 of the 104 original settlers were still alive by January 1608mostly due to
FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND In April of 2020, FamilySearch made the decision to temporarily close its Family History Libraries and Centers. The reason was due to theCOVID-19 virus.
EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES Many things can become endangered or eventually extinct. Many species of animals from the dinosaurs (from over 100 million years ago) to a specific type of lizard today can decrease in numbers so they no longer exist. However, did it occur to you that family surnames could also become extinct?HITCHCOCK CHAIR
A classical American-styled chair once in nearly every household was the ‘Hitchcock Chair’. It was developed by Lambert Hitchcock in Connecticut in 1819 in his chair factory. This early 1800s time period is known as the ‘Federal Era’ style furniture. Lambert Hitchcock came up with the method of making the parts of a chair and ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project.Here people from around the globe haveTHE SILVER SPOONS
The use of spoons for cooking and eating with has for centuries involved wooden spoons. Some even used spoons made of horn, bone or ceramic. Metal was reserved for horseshoes, wagon parts, keys and locks; not spoons. By the 1600s metal spoons started to CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have any type of collection of family photos, history, documents, journals, letters, vital records or written family history, you will want to see that your surviving family knows your wishes as to what happens to those items. RESOLUTION FOR SCANNING FAMILY PHOTOS Sometimes overlooked by individuals when they are scanning family photos, but you do need to know the different necessary resolutions to scan a photo. First, the higher the resolution (measured in dpi, for dots per inch), the more you can enlarge the image without getting that grainy, pixilated look. Depending on how you plan on MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM It is always interesting to explore a different database, see what it might contain that you have not found to date. Even if there are records you have looked at, if doesn’t hurt to re-examine those same census records, death certificates, military records – just in case you overlooked something. ANCESTRYDNA UPDATED FOUR COMMUNITIES Ancestry is continuously developing ways for you to learn about yourself through DNA and empowering you to unlock more discoveries about your family history. One way Ancestry applies advanced technology and evolving DNA science is by updating communities, which can connect people through their DNA to the places their ancestors likely lived and the paths BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
US ARMY SERIAL NUMBERS Americans have been in numerous wars over the decades but it was not until February 12, 1918, that there was the introduction of US Army serial numbers (SNs).OLDEST SURNAMES
It is interesting to look at what many classify as the oldest and still used surnames. You just may have one or more of these surnames on your family tree. Cohen, Courtenay, Hatt, Katz, King, O’Brien, O’Cleirgh, Priest, and Smith. These names from different European locations date back to 900 A.D. to 1300 A.D. FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND The reason was due to the COVID-19 virus. In June of 2020, FamilySearch has started making reopening plans for the FamilySearch Libraries and Centers that had been closed. FamilySearch is following the lead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, governments and healthcare professionals around the world as it considers a measured ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have a family member who has already requested to take over those records and photos after your death, great, but better yet, put into writing by using a ‘Genealogy Will‘. Here you spell it out, the person’s name, address, contact information etc. and what they are to get. If there are a couple relatives, name each and state what COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
RESOLUTION FOR SCANNING FAMILY PHOTOS Depending on how you plan on using photos can help determine the needed resolution. If you are doing the photos for a family web site- use the stand 72 dpi size. If you want the photo printed to its original size, then do 300 dpi. If you are doing handwritten or printed documents or records us 300 dpi. This is a good dpi also forscanned photos
LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S The 1930s also saw many new products first introduced. They included: Kool-Aid powder drink, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Bisquick, Spam (precooked canned pork), Twinkies, Ritz Crackers, Lay’s Potato Chips, cereals of Cheerios and Chex and Three Musketeers Bar. Maybe the most favorite item coming from the 1930s was the new Toll HouseChocolate
OLDEST SURNAMES
It is interesting to look at what many classify as the oldest and still used surnames. You just may have one or more of these surnames on your family tree. Cohen, Courtenay, Hatt, Katz, King, O’Brien, O’Cleirgh, Priest, and Smith. These names from different European locations date back to 900 A.D. to 1300 A.D. FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND The reason was due to the COVID-19 virus. In June of 2020, FamilySearch has started making reopening plans for the FamilySearch Libraries and Centers that had been closed. FamilySearch is following the lead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, governments and healthcare professionals around the world as it considers a measured ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have a family member who has already requested to take over those records and photos after your death, great, but better yet, put into writing by using a ‘Genealogy Will‘. Here you spell it out, the person’s name, address, contact information etc. and what they are to get. If there are a couple relatives, name each and state what COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
RESOLUTION FOR SCANNING FAMILY PHOTOS Depending on how you plan on using photos can help determine the needed resolution. If you are doing the photos for a family web site- use the stand 72 dpi size. If you want the photo printed to its original size, then do 300 dpi. If you are doing handwritten or printed documents or records us 300 dpi. This is a good dpi also forscanned photos
LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S The 1930s also saw many new products first introduced. They included: Kool-Aid powder drink, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Bisquick, Spam (precooked canned pork), Twinkies, Ritz Crackers, Lay’s Potato Chips, cereals of Cheerios and Chex and Three Musketeers Bar. Maybe the most favorite item coming from the 1930s was the new Toll HouseChocolate
BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES There is a list of names that are extinct. It includes Bread, Spinster, Chips, Rummage, Pussett, Temples, Wellbelove, Hatman and Bytheseashore. Know anyone with those names – hardly. Other names with just a few individuals include Fernsby, Rushlands, Berrycloth, Dankworth, Birdwhistle, Relish and Tumbler. These names are quicklybecoming
ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. ANCESTRYDNA UPDATED FOUR COMMUNITIES Ancestry is continuously developing ways for you to learn about yourself through DNA and empowering you to unlock more discoveries about your family history. One way Ancestry applies advanced technology and evolving DNA science is by updating communities, which can connect people through their DNA to the places their ancestors likely lived and the paths BEST SUBSCRIPTION OR FEE GENEALOGICAL There is a vast assortment of websites created over the last 15 years to aid the genealogical researcher. The following is an essential list of fee-based web sites that should become familiar to every researcher. The major advantage for using a subscription database is the time it saves rather than writing to repositories, churches, libraries or agencies for information. CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have a family member who has already requested to take over those records and photos after your death, great, but better yet, put into writing by using a ‘Genealogy Will‘. Here you spell it out, the person’s name, address, contact information etc. and what they are to get. If there are a couple relatives, name each and state what SALTED VS UNSALTED BUTTER Your ancestors always had ‘salted butter’ even if they made their own butter at home. The reason is that salt is the best preservative. If the weather was good and the family could get fresh dairy from livestock to make butter, then they would have unsalted butter. Having the unsalted, fresh butter was desired but WHAT WERE TIN CAN CAMPS? With World War One and the Spanish Flu over, the 1920s were a time our ancestors let loose and wanted to get out and travel across America. Many wanted to spend a couple of weeks or so in warm Florida during the winter. Of course, this was possible because the new autos wereimproving and
US ARMY SERIAL NUMBERS 9 = Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington. 0 = When the first number is 3, the zero means he was drafted outside the U.S. (301 indicates Panama; 302 indicates Puerto Rico) See if you can locate your ancestors’ serial number or their‘dog tags’.
WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR DATA AFTER YOU DIE? They can take screenshots of it or manually copy it down. The FamilySearch Wiki says that it is possible to delete a FamilySearch account. To do it, you need to send an email to support@familysearch.org requesting that the unwanted account be deleted. It is unclear what happens to the data that was in a deleted FamilySearch account. FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY LAUNCHED NEW WEBPAGE FamilySearch International announced the launch of a new webpage for its brick-and-mortar flagship, the Family History Library, located in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The new Family History Library webpage is part of FamilySearch.org and will provide new online patron experiences and up-to-date information on the library’s services andactivities.
OLDEST SURNAMES
It is interesting to look at what many classify as the oldest and still used surnames. You just may have one or more of these surnames on your family tree. Cohen, Courtenay, Hatt, Katz, King, O’Brien, O’Cleirgh, Priest, and Smith. These names from different European locations date back to 900 A.D. to 1300 A.D. FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND The reason was due to the COVID-19 virus. In June of 2020, FamilySearch has started making reopening plans for the FamilySearch Libraries and Centers that had been closed. FamilySearch is following the lead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, governments and healthcare professionals around the world as it considers a measured ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have a family member who has already requested to take over those records and photos after your death, great, but better yet, put into writing by using a ‘Genealogy Will‘. Here you spell it out, the person’s name, address, contact information etc. and what they are to get. If there are a couple relatives, name each and state what COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
RESOLUTION FOR SCANNING FAMILY PHOTOS Depending on how you plan on using photos can help determine the needed resolution. If you are doing the photos for a family web site- use the stand 72 dpi size. If you want the photo printed to its original size, then do 300 dpi. If you are doing handwritten or printed documents or records us 300 dpi. This is a good dpi also forscanned photos
LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S The 1930s also saw many new products first introduced. They included: Kool-Aid powder drink, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Bisquick, Spam (precooked canned pork), Twinkies, Ritz Crackers, Lay’s Potato Chips, cereals of Cheerios and Chex and Three Musketeers Bar. Maybe the most favorite item coming from the 1930s was the new Toll HouseChocolate
BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
OLDEST SURNAMES
It is interesting to look at what many classify as the oldest and still used surnames. You just may have one or more of these surnames on your family tree. Cohen, Courtenay, Hatt, Katz, King, O’Brien, O’Cleirgh, Priest, and Smith. These names from different European locations date back to 900 A.D. to 1300 A.D. FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND The reason was due to the COVID-19 virus. In June of 2020, FamilySearch has started making reopening plans for the FamilySearch Libraries and Centers that had been closed. FamilySearch is following the lead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, governments and healthcare professionals around the world as it considers a measured ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have a family member who has already requested to take over those records and photos after your death, great, but better yet, put into writing by using a ‘Genealogy Will‘. Here you spell it out, the person’s name, address, contact information etc. and what they are to get. If there are a couple relatives, name each and state what COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
RESOLUTION FOR SCANNING FAMILY PHOTOS Depending on how you plan on using photos can help determine the needed resolution. If you are doing the photos for a family web site- use the stand 72 dpi size. If you want the photo printed to its original size, then do 300 dpi. If you are doing handwritten or printed documents or records us 300 dpi. This is a good dpi also forscanned photos
LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S The 1930s also saw many new products first introduced. They included: Kool-Aid powder drink, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Bisquick, Spam (precooked canned pork), Twinkies, Ritz Crackers, Lay’s Potato Chips, cereals of Cheerios and Chex and Three Musketeers Bar. Maybe the most favorite item coming from the 1930s was the new Toll HouseChocolate
BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES There is a list of names that are extinct. It includes Bread, Spinster, Chips, Rummage, Pussett, Temples, Wellbelove, Hatman and Bytheseashore. Know anyone with those names – hardly. Other names with just a few individuals include Fernsby, Rushlands, Berrycloth, Dankworth, Birdwhistle, Relish and Tumbler. These names are quicklybecoming
ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. ANCESTRYDNA UPDATED FOUR COMMUNITIES Ancestry is continuously developing ways for you to learn about yourself through DNA and empowering you to unlock more discoveries about your family history. One way Ancestry applies advanced technology and evolving DNA science is by updating communities, which can connect people through their DNA to the places their ancestors likely lived and the paths BEST SUBSCRIPTION OR FEE GENEALOGICAL There is a vast assortment of websites created over the last 15 years to aid the genealogical researcher. The following is an essential list of fee-based web sites that should become familiar to every researcher. The major advantage for using a subscription database is the time it saves rather than writing to repositories, churches, libraries or agencies for information. CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have a family member who has already requested to take over those records and photos after your death, great, but better yet, put into writing by using a ‘Genealogy Will‘. Here you spell it out, the person’s name, address, contact information etc. and what they are to get. If there are a couple relatives, name each and state what SALTED VS UNSALTED BUTTER Your ancestors always had ‘salted butter’ even if they made their own butter at home. The reason is that salt is the best preservative. If the weather was good and the family could get fresh dairy from livestock to make butter, then they would have unsalted butter. Having the unsalted, fresh butter was desired but WHAT WERE TIN CAN CAMPS? With World War One and the Spanish Flu over, the 1920s were a time our ancestors let loose and wanted to get out and travel across America. Many wanted to spend a couple of weeks or so in warm Florida during the winter. Of course, this was possible because the new autos wereimproving and
US ARMY SERIAL NUMBERS 9 = Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington. 0 = When the first number is 3, the zero means he was drafted outside the U.S. (301 indicates Panama; 302 indicates Puerto Rico) See if you can locate your ancestors’ serial number or their‘dog tags’.
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The family surname or also called the ‘family name’ or ‘last name’ is very important as you do your family research. It is the keyword or phrase as you begin because it is what ties a family together. Not that you won’t have many surnames on that family tree due to female’s maiden name and FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND In April of 2020, FamilySearch made the decision to temporarily close its Family History Libraries and Centers. The reason was due to theCOVID-19 virus.
ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project.Here people from around the globe have CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have any type of collection of family photos, history, documents, journals, letters, vital records or written family history, you will want to see that your surviving family knows your wishes as to what happens to those items. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Now this item – a spittoon or cuspidor, you may or not be aware of. Yet for decades it was a necessary item in all types of locations – in homes or businesses. They were used as a disposal location for tobacco-laced saliva. Yes, many men in the 1700s into the early 20thcentury, chewed
COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO Any family historian is always thrilled to have any style photo of their ancestor. With the birth of a photo image with its many different formats over the 19th century it is interesting to see just what our relatives many have paid to have this 'newest' invention capture their image. LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S With the Great Depression during the 1930s, you did have ancestors directly affected by lack of paying jobs, not enough money which meant not enough food for the table. But your ancestors of the 1930s did come up with ideas to help the food situation. Many grocery storestrying to
BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE It can be a bit frustrating when you can not find any record or certificate or even obituary for an ancestor’s death. There can be some logical reasons why there is no death record that you have found yet. If you look at some possible reasons why you might not find it,then you have
STRICT RULES TEACHERS HAD TO FOLLOW IN THE 1800S Many changes over the decades of what was considered proper behavior. This especially applied to the teachers of youngsters in the 1800s, plus the problems they had to deal with. Teachers in the cities had many students who were immigrants, and didn’t speak English or were still trying to learn the language and American customs.OLDEST SURNAMES
The family surname or also called the ‘family name’ or ‘last name’ is very important as you do your family research. It is the keyword or phrase as you begin because it is what ties a family together. Not that you won’t have many surnames on that family tree due to female’s maiden name and FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND In April of 2020, FamilySearch made the decision to temporarily close its Family History Libraries and Centers. The reason was due to theCOVID-19 virus.
ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project.Here people from around the globe have CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have any type of collection of family photos, history, documents, journals, letters, vital records or written family history, you will want to see that your surviving family knows your wishes as to what happens to those items. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Now this item – a spittoon or cuspidor, you may or not be aware of. Yet for decades it was a necessary item in all types of locations – in homes or businesses. They were used as a disposal location for tobacco-laced saliva. Yes, many men in the 1700s into the early 20thcentury, chewed
COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO Any family historian is always thrilled to have any style photo of their ancestor. With the birth of a photo image with its many different formats over the 19th century it is interesting to see just what our relatives many have paid to have this 'newest' invention capture their image. LEFTOVERS – COMMON FOODS OF 1930S With the Great Depression during the 1930s, you did have ancestors directly affected by lack of paying jobs, not enough money which meant not enough food for the table. But your ancestors of the 1930s did come up with ideas to help the food situation. Many grocery storestrying to
BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE It can be a bit frustrating when you can not find any record or certificate or even obituary for an ancestor’s death. There can be some logical reasons why there is no death record that you have found yet. If you look at some possible reasons why you might not find it,then you have
STRICT RULES TEACHERS HAD TO FOLLOW IN THE 1800S Many changes over the decades of what was considered proper behavior. This especially applied to the teachers of youngsters in the 1800s, plus the problems they had to deal with. Teachers in the cities had many students who were immigrants, and didn’t speak English or were still trying to learn the language and American customs. ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project.Here people from around the globe have ANCESTRYDNA UPDATED FOUR COMMUNITIES Ancestry is continuously developing ways for you to learn about yourself through DNA and empowering you to unlock more discoveries about your family history. One way Ancestry applies advanced technology and evolving DNA science is by updating communities, which can connect people through their DNA to the places their ancestors likely lived and the paths CREATE A GENEALOGY WILL If you have any type of collection of family photos, history, documents, journals, letters, vital records or written family history, you will want to see that your surviving family knows your wishes as to what happens to those items. BEST SUBSCRIPTION OR FEE GENEALOGICAL There is a vast assortment of websites created over the last 15 years to aid the genealogical researcher. The following is an essential list of fee-based web sites that should become familiar to every researcher. The major advantage for using a subscription database is the time it saves rather than writing to repositories, churches, libraries or agencies for information. SALTED VS UNSALTED BUTTER Your ancestors always had ‘salted butter’ even if they made their own butter at home. The reason is that salt is the best preservative. If the weather was good and the family could get fresh dairy from livestock to make butter, then they would have unsalted butter. Having the unsalted, fresh butter was desired but EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES Many things can become endangered or eventually extinct. Many species of animals from the dinosaurs (from over 100 million years ago) to a specific type of lizard today can decrease in numbers so they no longer exist. However, did it occur to you that family surnames could also become extinct? WHAT WERE TIN CAN CAMPS? With World War One and the Spanish Flu over, the 1920s were a time our ancestors let loose and wanted to get out and travel across America. Many wanted to spend a couple of weeks or so in warm Florida during the winter. Of course, this was possible because the new autos wereimproving and
FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY LAUNCHED NEW WEBPAGE FamilySearch International announced the launch of a new webpage for its brick-and-mortar flagship, the Family History Library, located in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The new Family History Library webpage is part of FamilySearch.org and will provide new online patron experiences and up-to-date information on the library’s services andactivities.
RESOLUTION FOR SCANNING FAMILY PHOTOS Sometimes overlooked by individuals when they are scanning family photos, but you do need to know the different necessary resolutions to scan a photo. First, the higher the resolution (measured in dpi, for dots per inch), the more you can enlarge the image without getting that grainy, pixilated look. Depending on how you plan on US ARMY SERIAL NUMBERS Americans have been in numerous wars over the decades but it was not until February 12, 1918, that there was the introduction of US Army serial numbers (SNs).GENEALOGY TODAY
A web site for genealogists for over 11 years, Genealogy Today has unique databases, search tools and original articles, along with links to the newest sites and online resources. Also offered are subscription-fee based databases and newsletters and over 500 products in their marketplace. It has Online Genealogy Index program. It’s purpose was to create FAMILY SURNAMES STARTING WITH THE LETTER Family Surnames Starting with the Letter - Learn the meaning of afamily surname.
FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND The reason was due to the COVID-19 virus. In June of 2020, FamilySearch has started making reopening plans for the FamilySearch Libraries and Centers that had been closed. FamilySearch is following the lead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, governments and healthcare professionals around the world as it considers a measured ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM The new online site ‘ MooseRoots ‘ (a genealogical search engine) has several different historical records for you look over. There are US Census records, Vital records (birth-marriage-divorce-death and cemetery), Immigration and Naturalization records, military records (American and Canadian), plus a general reference category with MESSAGE BOARDS AT ROOTSWEB Due to the wide-spread use of the Internet and the access people around the globe have to computers the use of ‘Message Boards’ like that are found on Rootsweb are marvelous references for locating data, records and hints to other sources previously unknown. Not just for certain ancestors is the message board useful, but for BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
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FAMILYSEARCH MADE REOPENING PLANS FOR LIBRARIES AND The reason was due to the COVID-19 virus. In June of 2020, FamilySearch has started making reopening plans for the FamilySearch Libraries and Centers that had been closed. FamilySearch is following the lead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, governments and healthcare professionals around the world as it considers a measured ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. SPITTOONS | FAMILYTREE.COM Spittoons were generously located in restaurants, in pharmacies, in offices, and near the entrances to popular businesses. Wit the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1917 to 1919, it was felt the spit on sidewalks, ground and floors would spread the disease so the spittoons became very popular. The spittoon was found everywhere well into the 1930s. WHY NO DEATH CERTIFICATE The ladies’ names can be a real problem. Some obituaries or death certificates can have the woman’s husband full name, such as “Mrs. Henry W. Johnston” instead of her given names of Sarah Ellen Johnston. So do check under a husband’s name also. That includes if the woman was married more than one time. A death certificate couldhave
COST OF THAT 19TH CENTURY PHOTO The value in today’s money is $81.50 to $195.00 — quite a sum, no wonder not many of the relatives had their photo taken in the 1840s into the 1850s. Ambrotypes in the early 1850s cost much less than the daguerreotype and could be hand tinted to add color. One would run between 25 cents and 40 cents. Today that is equal to about $6.00. MOOSEROOTS | FAMILYTREE.COM The new online site ‘ MooseRoots ‘ (a genealogical search engine) has several different historical records for you look over. There are US Census records, Vital records (birth-marriage-divorce-death and cemetery), Immigration and Naturalization records, military records (American and Canadian), plus a general reference category with MESSAGE BOARDS AT ROOTSWEB Due to the wide-spread use of the Internet and the access people around the globe have to computers the use of ‘Message Boards’ like that are found on Rootsweb are marvelous references for locating data, records and hints to other sources previously unknown. Not just for certain ancestors is the message board useful, but for BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS To learn more about the British slave trade and the owners of slaves, there is an online database by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (done by the University College of London) with a good searchable site. This will have names, locations and dates on owners and on theformer slaves.
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A genealogical web site maintained by Ancestry.com is Genealogy.com. It has been established for many years and offers researchers several options. First, a family tree can be created and saved on the site. Next, there are numerous databases to do research online with Genealogy.com. Some of their long-standing databases include: World Family Tree, Genealogy Library, ROOTSWEB WORLD CONNECT Rootsweb WorldConnect. A long-time secondary resource is Rootsweb which is free and online. The database to check is the WorldConnect Project. Here people from around the globe have submitted in GEDCOM format their family trees. There are some 6.26 million surnames and over 787.3 million individual names. EXTINCT FAMILY SURNAMES There is a list of names that are extinct. It includes Bread, Spinster, Chips, Rummage, Pussett, Temples, Wellbelove, Hatman and Bytheseashore. Know anyone with those names – hardly. Other names with just a few individuals include Fernsby, Rushlands, Berrycloth, Dankworth, Birdwhistle, Relish and Tumbler. These names are quicklybecoming
MIGHT YOU BE RELATED TO A FAMOUS PERSON? Mark Wahlberg who is Johnny Appleseed is a second cousin, seven times removed. Amy Poehler is related to Benjamin Franklin as a first cousin, ten times removed. Lee Harvey Oswald was President Theodore Roosevelt’s third cousin, once removed. Photos: President Theodore Roosevelt, murderess Lizzie Borden, Wild West lawman Wyatt Earp and SALTED VS UNSALTED BUTTER Your ancestors always had ‘salted butter’ even if they made their own butter at home. The reason is that salt is the best preservative. If the weather was good and the family could get fresh dairy from livestock to make butter, then they would have unsalted butter. Having the unsalted, fresh butter was desired but WHAT WERE TIN CAN CAMPS? With World War One and the Spanish Flu over, the 1920s were a time our ancestors let loose and wanted to get out and travel across America. Many wanted to spend a couple of weeks or so in warm Florida during the winter. Of course, this was possible because the new autos wereimproving and
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