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Friday, December 29, 2017
A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Fulton New York Postcards Website
On December 25th the Old Fulton New York Postcards website (which, by the way, is not a website for postcards) received a major update that added a whopping 700,000 more old newspaper articles from the USA and Canada. The site, however, has an aesthetic that makes it slightly more difficult to start using than the average site. This post will help you learn to use this incredible resource to its full capacity.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
3 Ways to Use Archive.org for Genealogy
Archive.org is one of the most valuable free resources for genealogy you have at your disposal. This post will teach you how to use it for your own research.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
5 Beginner Tips for Using the Třeboň Regional Archives
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So you just found that you have Czech ancestors, you even narrowed down the specific location of those ancestors to Southern Bohemia, the region covered by the Třeboň Regional Archives. What now? Note that this guide will only cover the basics of using the archives and navigating the records, it won't deal with techniques for reading the Czech language or for finding people when nothing else is working.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
The Mysterious Origins of William Smith: A Tale of an Insane Irish Man
Nearly every family has one; a seemingly-eccentric-nutter-turned-black-sheep. The ancestor who lived under a guise of normalcy for years until a seemingly insignificant event turned them sour. On the Van Wert side of my family, this person is the Irish born William Smith, my 4th great grandfather by the following line:
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
1931 Bethany Daisy: The Senior Class pt. 3 (pg. 34-36)
This is part three of the senior class photos and part four of my ongoing series of pictures and transcriptions of the 1931 Bethany Daisy that belonged to my great grandma Frances Elsie Caroline Gustafson.Frances got notes from a significant portion of the students. Many students chose not to write their letters by their senior photograph, but instead by a photograph of them doing an activity they like, or they chose to use an entire blank sheet of paper for their note, so its entirely possible people who don't have notes showing yet will have them later on in the book.
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Monday, November 13, 2017
1931 Bethany Daisy: The Senior Class pt. 2 (pg. 32-33)
This is part two of the senior class photos and part four of my ongoing series of pictures and transcriptions of the 1931 Bethany Daisy that belonged to my great grandma Frances Elsie Caroline Gustafson. Frances got notes from a significant portion of the students. Many students chose not to write their letters by their senior photograph, but instead by a photograph of them doing an activity they like, or they chose to use an entire blank sheet of paper for their note, so its entirely possible people who don't have notes showing yet will have them later on in the book.
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
Saving a Full Image from ArkivDigital
Today is the last day of the free weekend for ArkivDigital and I am very happy with the number of genealogical records I have grabbed. However, I wasn't too happy with their options for saving images. If you have used ArkivDigital before you will know that when you save an image it saves only the part visible on your screen. If you zoom way out the resulting picture will be very pixelated and near impossible to read.
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