Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
I was stumbling over this question, not knowing what direction to go in, so I worked on something else. As I was researching my great great aunt’s employment for the WPA in 1940, I started asking myself questions about her situation. How would a woman in her 50s or 60s find sewing work through the…
Have you heard of Flipboard? Flipboard is a social media app that allows you to collect articles and blog posts in magazine format. To save an item, you “flip” it. You can share these items publicly or keep them to yourself. It’s a great way to save articles you want to go back to or…
Did you know that women were employed through the WPA during the Depression just like men? The 1940 US Federal Census is one place where we can find out if our relatives were working for the WPA. Look under the employment section. If you see WPA in the Industry column, it means the person was…
I work with people with different degrees of genealogy research experience. They seem to think I have some special talent for genealogy. I’m going to let you in on something. I sucked at genealogy the first couple of years I was researching. I made a ton of mistakes that made my new hobby very frustrating….
The title of the Gizmodo article “How DNA Testing Botched My Family’s Heritage and Probably Yours, Too”, screams out to DNA test takers: Danger Will Robinson! Oh, wait, that was something else. Still, the word botched implies that they’ve screwed up your results, but have they really? And, they aren’t the only one. Articles about…