Last night, I had the chance to listen to the “Stuff You Missed in History Class” podcast. The topic of the podcast was the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. What we know of the 1936 Berlin Games seems to come down to Jesse Owen’s feats and the handshake snub. This pocast touched a bit on…
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Anti-Annexation Petitions are being transcribed
The Native Hawaiian Genealogy Society is embarking on a project that should prove beneficial to many Hawaii researchers. They are going to be transcribing the anti-annexation petitions of 1897-1898. The petitions include over 21,000 names. I think it’s an important part of history to capture as their were people who were against annexation and resisted…
Hawaii State Archives Digital Collection Tour Overview
You may not know it, but the Hawaii State Archives has been very quietly adding indexes and digitized records to its website. There is a wealth of information being added. Alot of these documents have been difficult to find because of the confusing nature of Hawaiian research and the fact that many online genealogy websites…
Maria de Braga is (Time) Toast
One of the Genea Blogger Games challenges is to create a timeline of events for an individual in my tree. I fooled around with Personal Historian, but wasn’t thrilled with the results. Since TimeToast was recommended I decided to give it a try. It took me some time to put my Great Grandmother, Maria (de…
Wordle Thy Ancestors
For my next Winter Genea Bloggers challenge, I played around with Wordle. It’s a fun little application that allows you to fill in a box with text. Then it creates a Wordle…a representation of your word list in living color. I decided to do a Wordle based on my ancestor surnames. This is not a…