http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/u-is-for-unusual-resources/ Adventures in genealogy Wed, 08 May 2013 20:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/u-is-for-unusual-resources/#comment-4051 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:58:22 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=2763#comment-4051 Most of the time I get the best results by thinking out of the box. You really find awesome information in sources that you don’t expect you just have to be creative.

]]> http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/u-is-for-unusual-resources/#comment-4024 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:21:09 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=2763#comment-4024 If it wasn’t for her welder’s ID card from the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, or her dues slips for the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders & Helpers of America, I would have never known what my great grandmother Alice did during World War II. Great post, and very true that we find wonderful pieces of information in unusual sources.

]]> http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/u-is-for-unusual-resources/#comment-4010 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:29:22 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=2763#comment-4010 [...] Family, Uu is for – Unbelievable that my Uu post disappeared What’s Past is Prologue, U is for Unusual Resources ← Next post Previous post [...]

]]> http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/u-is-for-unusual-resources/#comment-4009 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:03:51 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=2763#comment-4009 Oh and I TOTALLY love your picture unusual suspects picture

]]> http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/u-is-for-unusual-resources/#comment-4008 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:03:10 +0000 http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/?p=2763#comment-4008 I have to agree with you about unusual records. It certainly does pay to think ‘outside the box’, as you just never know what records might exist and where. And yet sometimes they are the most interesting and useful.

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