I was searching the Chronicling America collection at Library of Congress Website. They’ve added a few years to their Garden Island Newspaper collection. The newspaper now covers through 1920. I didn’t have much luck on the pre-1910 edition, but I expected to do better with these later years. As I was browsing around I came…
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Do you Tagxedo?
Another genealogist shared this word cloud utility with me. It’s called Tagxedo. You enter a bunch of words, pick a shape, and it makes a cool looking word cloud graphic. I did a couple using surnames from my family tree. I really like the way they came out. This is my surname tree… I really…
SNGF: Ancestor Scavenger Hunt
Randy Seaver over at GeneaMusings.com has the Saturday Night Genealogy Challenge posted. This week is an ancestor scavenger hunt. My mission is to head over to familysearch.org, plunk down a name in the search box, then see where it leads me. As I’ve been working on Madeline (Mazeres) Menaud this week, I thought I’d try…
Unukupukupu Halau Hula Performance
The Library of Congress has added a new entry to it’s it’s YouTube collection. This video is a traditional hula performance from the Hula School of the Community College of Hilo, Hawaii. The presentation is an hour and ten minutes long. Enjoy this performance of traditional dancers…
Surrendered Alien Certificates might help Hawaii researchers
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…