Featured Site: The Philadelphia Church Project

The Philadelphia Church Project is a unique website that describes itself as a “wild and wacky guide to the best religious architecture the city has to offer.”   The site offers the following questions for readers to ponder: What does a building mean to you? Is it just a thing, a purely physical being? Or is there substance [...]

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Even God Laughed

“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.” ~ Bill Cosby My memory for today’s edition of “Memory Monday” is forever linked with the feast of Pentecost, which is celebrated in Christianity next Sunday. Not that this memory actually happened on Pentecost – I [...]

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Research Tip: Searching for Towns in the FHL Catalog

Last week at the NGS 2010 conference, I grumbled to someone about something I disliked about searching for information in the Family History Library catalog.  I didn’t know it at the time, but I grumbled to someone who works  for FamilySearch with the catalog.  Because I happened to grumble to the “right” person, I ended [...]

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Lessons Learned from WDYTYA – Part 2

On March 28, 2010, I posted Lessons Learned from WDYTYA in which I found some element of the research process in each of the first four episodes that offered  valuable lessons to genealogists.  The “lessons” I highlighted in that post were: 1) Don’t trust everything you read in the newspapers; try to find primary sources [...]

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How I Spent My Genealogy Vacation

Regular readers of What’s Past is Prologue might wonder where I’ve been for the last month due to the lack of activity here.  I have been gone, but only for a week – earlier in the month I was busy (and lazy).  But last week was my “genealogy vacation”!  I attended the 2010 National Genealogical [...]

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