Posted in Church Records, tagged Bergmeister, Puch, Zinsmeister, Latin translation on February 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is a rather unusual death record from my genealogical “collection” with an odd reason for the death. I wish they had newspapers back then - this would have made a rather interesting obituary! The record source is the Kirchenbuch records from the Catholic church in Puch, Bavaria, Germany and details the [...]
Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, tagged genealogy, technology on February 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Not so long ago in a galaxy not too far away, the word “genealogist” may not have been associated with the most technology-savvy person. The image that came to mind may have been more of a bookworm-librarian searching through piles of books and papers in dusty old archives. Today, many genealogists are very well versed [...]
Posted in Donna's Picks, tagged genealogy links on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some posts that I really enjoyed this week from both genealogy blogs and “other” blogs that had something interested and related to genealogy or at least genea-blogging. If you missed any, be sure to visit these sites!
Brave New Traveler, which is a blog about travel, had an interesting post called “Can Your Grandparents [...]
Posted in General Info, tagged blogs on February 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I know what you’re thinking…this gal’s had this blog for six weeks, so what can she tell me about blogging? Well, let me offer my defense in advance. I may have only this particular blog for six weeks, but I’ve also had another one for six months. Between the two I’m using [...]
Posted in Church Records, tagged baptismal records, Piontkowski, Polish records, Warsaw on February 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For several months I’ve been corresponding with the Polish State Archives [Archiwum Państwowego] to obtain a copy of a birth/baptismal record for my grandfather’s brother. Why go through the trouble for a collateral ancestor? Because my grandfather was born in Philadelphia and his older brother and sister were born in Warsaw. My [...]
Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, tagged carnival on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jasia at Creative Gene has posted the 42nd edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. This edition’s topic was: the best of the best…presenting the iGene Awards 2007! Submitters announced their best blog posts in the following 5 categories:
Best Picture
Best Screen Play
Best Documentary
Best Biography
Best Comedy
Read about all of the submissions in Jasia’s post here. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted in General Info, tagged books, Memes on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This isn’t quite genealogy-related, but I love books so it’s fun anyway. I’ve been tagged by The Virtual Dime Museum for a book meme. Here are my answers…
What issues/topic interests you most–non-fiction, i.e,cooking, knitting, stitching, there are infinite topics that has nothing to do with novels?
The non-fiction topics that interest me the most and find [...]
Posted in General Info, tagged genealogy magazine on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, the news is finally public! Halvor Moorshead is starting a brand new genealogy magazine in addition to Family Chronicle and Internet Genealogy. The new magazine is entitled Discovering Family History and will hit the newsstands in April. But, you can view a free “preview” at the website and download a 56-page [...]
Posted in Donna's Picks, tagged genealogy links on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some posts from genealogy blogs that I really enjoyed this week. If you missed any, be sure to visit these sites!
On the UPGS 2008 site, the article “Preparing to visit the FHL” offers some great tips on how to prepare for a visit to the ultimate genealogy library in Salt Lake City. [...]
Posted in General Info, tagged Echerer, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, town history, hauserchronik, heimatbuch on February 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
An oft-repeated phrase when one enters an old house is “if these walls could speak, the stories they’d tell.” In Germany, it is possible for the walls to speak about the families that lived there for centuries in the form of a book called a häuserchronik.
What would you say if I told [...]
