This weeks Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at Genea-Musings is “Surname Distribution.” I decided to use the World Names Profiler that Randy Seaver provide a link to to see how my surname, Lassalle, was distributed throughtout the countries in this database. My family used the spelling Lassalle with two S’s, which completely throws off everyone…
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Revisiting the Smith Lagrange Conundrum
I’ve posted a couple of times about a research problem involving John Lagrange who died before 1840. He was the son of Elias “Jellis” Lagrange and Annatie Van Patten, of Albany Co., NY. In the 1840 Census, John Lagrange is listed next to Henry Smith in Duanesburgh, Schenectady Co., NY. John’s son, John S. Lagrange…
Working with the California Divorce Index
Ancestry.com has the California Divorce index, 1966-1984. I’m searching through it to fill in some holes in my descendants list and to answer a few questions about people who seemed to have too many kids and not enough spouses and vice versa 😉 I’m working with surname searches for now so as to find groups…
Tracking a Lost Cousin
After doing Randy’s Genealogy challenge last night, I realized that I knew almost nothing about my Mom’s cousin, Rees Embry Winter. While I’ve been able to track the descendants of all my Great Aunts and Great Uncles, Rees’ family was a big question mark. Naturally, once I realized this I could not leave it alone….
Is Your Blog Accessible for the Disabled and Elderly?
Thomas MacEntee over at the GeneaBloggers Blog wrote this post about making your blog more welcoming to visitors: Your Blog’s Welcome Mat. He gives some tips on making visitors feel more welcome when reading your blog. It occurs to me that while we are making our blogs prettier and more presentable we may be making…