Archive for December, 2008
All my younger sisters in the same room
We sat chatting about Christmas presents, about parents and about DVDs. Andrea has just finished work and called over, the younger girls were drinking coke and giggling at stories of me as a small child. I’m sitting with my four younger sisters. I met two of them for the first time today.I’ll always remember finding out I had other siblings. Growing up in a two child family as the eldest, I sometimes wished for an older brother or even a twin. For a time I almost convinced myself that maybe, som
Variety of Questions - Part 2
RE: A Variety of Questions - Part 1 DearROGER, You wrote “I need to figure out how to find ancestry in places like PA [Pennsylvania] for my great-great-grandfather & great-great-grandmother to determine who his parents were, where in Ireland he came from or when he immigrated to America and what my great-great grandmother’s maiden name was, and where they married, had their first two children, etc..” Your challenge is the same as every other researcher facing a “new” locality of research. I
Boston University Launches New Certificate Program in Genealogical Research (PRWeb)
Outstanding faculty at Boston University teaches the Genealogical Proof Standard® in the new Ancestral Research and Genealogy Certificate Program. Classes will be held on Saturdays over a 14-week period starting January 17, 2009. To learn more about the Genealogical Research Certificate Program at Boston University, visit http://professional.bu.edu/cpe/Genealogy.asp . (PRWeb Dec 30, 2008) …
Trace Your Roots With GRAMPS
The season is nigh where many cultures across the globe observe some type of holiday that aims, in part, to reunite friends and family. If someone in the family is interested in genealogy, these gatherings are usually a prime opportunity to pull out any research, and coax some almost forgotten stories out of relatives.
My genealogy shows that I am the definition of Swamp Yankee
What is a Swamp Yankee? Read on.