When You Can’t Find Grampa’s Marriage Record

One of my more popular posts has been Philadelphia Marriage Indexes Online.  As that post indicates, the FamilySearch site’s collection of Philadelphia Marriage Records is great online tool for searching for marriage information.  The collection is a listing of marriage licenses issued in Philadelphia from 1885-1951.  While these records are technically an “index” they are [...]

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An Exceptional Cemetery Find

The topic for the premier edition of the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival is “exceptional finds” – share those rare and unique cemeteries, gravestones, monuments, memorials, and inscriptions. I am one of those genealogists that likes to explore old cemeteries even while I am on vacation.  When I visited Paris, France in 2007,  Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière [...]

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The 2008 iGENE Awards!

It’s that time of year again…time for the Academy Awards.  But not that Academy!  More appropriate to this blog is the Academy of Genealogy and Family History (AGFH)!  Each year, our illustrious Academy offers genea-bloggers the opportunity to celebrate the “best of the best” – our best blog posts for 2008. Best Picture “I love [...]

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Fashions of the 1920′s

Last month, I shared photos of my great-grandmother’s sisters.  I have several more unidentified photos; I know they are of the sisters, but which one?  The three photos below are perfect for the latest edition of  the Smile for the Camera Carnival, for they certainly offer the distinctive style of dress of the 1920s.  These [...]

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