There are few things as sacred to any nation than the memory of its military dead. For the US, one of the most sacred places is Arlington Cemetery, which almost exclusively contains the memorials of our military and high-ranking political leaders. This site has been desecrated, that it, it has been shorn of its sacred… Continue reading At Arlington: A Desecration
Month: July 2010
Evernote: There’s a Trunk for That
Evernote, the note-taking and “elephant-memory” website has added a feature they call The Trunk. Behind the Trunk link at the Evernote website is a a list of tools and vendors that work with Evernote. Evernote sports desktop applications for the Mac and for PCs. Additionally, when you install the Mac or PC version, you automatically… Continue reading Evernote: There’s a Trunk for That
People Who Are Not Interested in Genealogy
You know the people I’m talking about. You meet them all the time. They say, “Oh, I’m not interested in genealogy. What could you POSSIBLY find interesting in that?”
Review: “Annie’s Ghosts” by Steve Luxenberg
Book Review: Steve Luxenberg’s “Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey Into A Family Secret” will remain with me for some time.
The Library of Congress Web Archive
This site, and more particularly the “History of the Graham Family” (1899) by David Graham, which is transcribed here, is being archived at the Library of Congress. About the Library of Congress Web Archiving program, the LOC writes: “The Library’s traditional functions of acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the… Continue reading The Library of Congress Web Archive
Review: Family Bee for Android
I have been using PDAs for years, and was an early adopter of the Handspring product that started the integration of PDAs and cell phones back in about 2002. As a genealogist, I have used several products that have allowed for displaying a genealogy database on my PDA/cell phone, and was quite happy with GedStar… Continue reading Review: Family Bee for Android
Happy 4th of July
I hope everyone had a happy 4th of July, and that they spent some of the day honoring those who came before and made our freedoms possible. I am thinking especially of a set of military brothers tonight:
Migrations of the Gregg and Johnson Families
View Migrations of the Gregg and Johnson Family in a larger map I am plotting the migration path of three generations of my family on the attached Google map. This map will help me visualize the migrations. (I have allowed Google to use current road data, so the routing is based on today’s roads, and… Continue reading Migrations of the Gregg and Johnson Families
A Marriage Certificate from 1924 Leads to a Birth Record from 1864
A while back, I created a Vital Records Checklist to catalog all the obvious records I had, and the ones I needed, to flesh out the most rudimentary data, the births, marriages, and deaths of my ancestors. This led to my sending out a request to the Clerk of the Valley County, Nebraska Court (http://www.co.valley.ne.us/clerk.html) has… Continue reading A Marriage Certificate from 1924 Leads to a Birth Record from 1864