The Research Journal is three years old today! Woo hoo! Throw the confetti and let the balloons go! 😀 I originally started this blog as research journals. I would take a research problem and work them through in each post. I went flat with this idea after awhile and abandoned the blog. Several months later,…
Category: General Genealogy
SNGF: If I Had Only Known
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge is posted at Genea-Musings. This week the topic is “If I had know then, what I know now…” Boy, I sure could write volumes on this! There are a couple of things I wish I had know back when I started genealogy… 1. How to Organize Digitized Records…
Do You Dream of Visiting Your Ancestral Homeland?
My latest genealogy page on Squidoo is called “Dreaming of Kilauea”. It’s meant to be a travel page, but it’s really about my dream vacation. Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii is where my Portuguese ancestors settled when they migrated from the Azores to work on the sugar plantations. That was 1882. I still have relatives in the…
Google Books Find: Men of Hawaii
I like to search the Google Books collection to see if anything of interest has been added. Today I found this gem: Men of Hawaii: being a biographical reference library, complete and authentic, of the men of note, and substantial achievements in the Hawaiian Islands, volume I. Edited by John William Siddall. Honolulu Star Bulletin…
Testing Out Geni.com
Randy Seaver has mentioned Genea.com in his posts over at Genea-Musings for quite some time. He had a post today about William and Kate’s ancestry. As I have royalty in my tree two (I did not get invited to the wedding though!), I decided to check out what Geni.com was all about. The tree that…