Category Archives: Around the Web

Tombstone Tuesday: Catharine Kelly’s Tombstone Found

A month or so ago, I added some graves to findagrave.com.  I only got through a few, added a couple of photos, then requested 3 photos. Last week, I was contacted by a volunteer.  He went to Holy Cross Cemetery but couldn’t find my graves.  I sent him what little information I had for his …

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Follow Friday: Kevin Berdan’s genealogynews on Twitter

There are so many interesting genealogy tweeters on Twitter (say that 10 times fast).  One of the ones I follow and read regularly is Kevin Berdan who tweets under the moniker genealogynews. Kevin posts all sorts of interesting links to articles, blog posts, and websites.  The cover a wide range of genealogy, history, and heritage …

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My Ancestors and the Google News Timeline

Ever since this link made the rounds yesterday, I have been playing around with it.  It’s the new toy from the Google Labs folks: The Google News Timeline.  You enter a date then it gives you information on events that happened that day.  It provides a link to the original source so you can learn …

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