Archive for February, 2013
Learning from Family History
Sunday, February 24th, 2013What does family history teach us? What do we learn from it? One thing that it can do is to teach us about life in ways we find hard to dismiss. There are many hypotheses about why people love fiction. Many of those ideas probably contribute to the full answer. Fiction can be an escape [...]
Mortgages, Magnetism and Shoes
Sunday, February 17th, 2013Any documents that can show names, dates and places can be used for genealogy. Some may provide better genealogical evidence than others but where there are names, dates and places there is possibility. A Mortgage I’m now staring at one less used document type, mortgage papers. The man I’m investigating loaned some money. It gives [...]
A Word from their Sponsors
Sunday, February 10th, 2013Do you have any ancestors that seem to be the end of the line? Forebears that resist every effort to discover enough to go back any further? Try working on someone else. No, I don’t mean give up. I mean work on someone who seems suspicious, someone who seems to be associated with your ancestor. [...]
Clues to Clues
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013Do you ever read compiled genealogies? Your answer is probably “yes” and if it isn’t, it probably should be. Part of doing research is understanding what has already been done. Once you know what has been done the next step is to figure out if it has been done right. The next step is not [...]