I was browsing the new additions to ancestry.com the other day and came across an interesting find. It’s the “San Francisco, California, Surrendered Alien Certificates, 1906-1946” database. The database covers many people who came from Hawaii to California who were not citizens of the US. You may not know that immigrants living in Hawaii at…
Category: Around the Web
Beware of False Tombstones
Carol from the Reflections on the Fence blog posted a link to a blog post that I think you all should read. It is from the Ancestoring blog and titled “Problems with Find-A-Grave“. The author tells about problems with scammers who are using Find-A-Grave to mess with our heads. Evidently, some people get their jollies…
Friday Free Ebook: Postcards from Kauai
This find comes a day late, but I think people will enjoy it none-the-less. I was searching Google Books today and came across this gem: Kauai: 100 Years in Postcards, By Stormy Cazad, published in 2011. It is part of the Postcard History Series of Acadia Publishing. The book is full of postcards going back…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
[I am working my way backward through Amy Coffin’s 52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn’t paying attention at the beginning of the year. This is my entry for week #19…Blog Series] Without a doubt the blog series I enjoy the most is Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun at GeneaMusings.com. Without it, I…
Social Media and Genealogy
[I am working my way backward through Amy Coffin’s 52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn’t paying attention at the beginning of the year. This is my entry for week #20…Social Media] When I first joined Facebook a few years ago, I would have never dreamed that social media would become so important to…