Has anyone had a chance to visit the Library of Congress newspaper website “Chronicling America” recently? Since I visited two weeks ago, the website has a whole new look and search interface. I am working on my relatives, Nellie Jones and William Hull Phelps. I believe I found them in census and mortuary records, but…
This is the Face of Genealogy
[Read about it at: Face of Genealogy]
It’s Our Blog-A-Versary!!!
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,…
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…
Surname Saturday: Ferreira Grota of Estrela
Working through my Portuguese family tree, today I’ve decided to post on the Ferreira/Ferreira Grota line. This line hails from the Ribeira Grande district of Sao Miguel Island. As with most Porttuguese lines in the 1700s, the surname descends from the maternal line rather than the paternal line. My oldest ancestor is Jacintha Ferreira, a…