'Today, Ancestry announced the free availability of the first comprehensive list of over 125,000 persons of Japanese descent who were unjustly imprisoned between December 1942 and January 1948.'
@genchat#genchat What I like about FAN clubs is the water has not been muddied by the genealogy companies (yet). So you do have to do your own work! Proper genealogy!
I'm working on a term paper about Filipino heritage expression and genealogy. One of the references I'm using, "Tracing Your Philippine Ancestors" by Lee W. Vance, was published in 1980. The only copy of it I can find is in the UP Diliman Main Library, and it's only for room use.
Does anyone here have any leads where I can find a copy that I can buy or browse for long periods of time?
#Bonjour! I need the help of someone who is located in #Paris, to go into the Cimetière Montmarte and take a couple of photos for me.
The De la Cruz family tombstone is in division 21, ligne 2/65, on the Avenue Cordier. I'm happy to offer 20 EUR to anyone who can get me some good snapshots of it.
For all of you not in Paris, please boost so that this request reaches #France!
Day off. Delicious salad. Chai latte. Chocolate croissant. Then the entire afternoon to myself. I think I’ll go plug my laptop in upstairs at the library and do #genealogy stuff. I have a to do list a mile long!
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Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine it does about your family tree.
"Chemistry professor Tson-Kong (T.K.) Sham and his colleagues recently confirmed a new synchrotron imaging technique they developed is just as effective for retrieving corroded daguerreotypes – the earliest form of photographs – as a strategy they first reported in 2018, and can also be used no matter how badly damaged the image surface is from natural corrosion or cleaning attempts."
Well last night Jan (as usual) gave us a ton of helpful Info :
Modern property tax records can tell you when a house might have been built or remodeled, and sometimes even give you a footprint of the building and its rooms.
If you find records that someone owned property over a certain value, if you're thinking about when they came of age, or if they have income over a certain value. It depends on whether you are "boots on the ground" or looking online.
I highly recommend Judy G. Russell's webinars on the law and how it applies to our research, especially "How Old Did He Have to Be?" Knowing the law tells you when someone is likely to be on a tax list.
Knowing the law is so helpful for all the records we use for #genealogy. I think it was Michael Hait who said in a webinar "Clerks don't keep records for fun."
Most records we use were kept because some law mandated them, or when people were keeping track of money.
Knowing each locality's laws are so important! You can search Judy G. Russell's blog, The Legal Genealogist, to get ideas for finding the laws for individual states, territories, or federal laws.
Good day, #genchat ! I've got my coffee ready & we'll be talking about Tax Records for #genealogy ! And although I've finished updating my computer last night, it is driving kind of slow, so please bear with my pace. @genchat
One of my late father's youngest cousins and her husband were in town for an event, so my wife and I met them for coffee and the handover of the contents of the fabled "Aunt Enid's Trunk" that was in her possession.
Happened upon a new-to-me source of records for assisting with one's #genealogy endeavors: The (US) National Archive's Access to Archival Databases (AAD).
Register to enjoy a free webinar replay the weekend of 5-7 April 2024 “Migrations 2: North Carolinians on the Move – Reconstruction & Early 20th Century Migration" - the NC Genealogical Society will email a direct link to the recording for viewing between midnight Thursday thru midnight Sunday.
Handout only available during the viewing period & will open in a separate tab; not downloadable or printable
OMG Should I scan my antique postcard collection?! My favorites are the ones with writing. I've bought tons of them on eBay over the years, and they're most pictures of Indianapolis.
New free virtual webinar recording on "Tracing Revolutionary War Soldiers at the State Archives of North Carolina" now available on their YouTube channel. Learn about what the records available there can tell you about the Revolutionary War period!
My brother told me that Mom had mentioned the picture to him, but she did not know who the kid was, nor why it was kept.
So, anyway, I'd really like to find out more information about "D Howard Shirley" or "Grandma Ellen Taylor".
If there are any experts in #genealogy especially around #Chicago in the early 1900s. It makes me want to talk to the genealogists at "History's Mysteries"! 😁
Does anyone have any ideas? Maybe Howard had family, and would like to have a baby picture!
My brother told me that Mom had mentioned the picture to him, but she did not know who the kid was, nor why it was kept.
So, anyway, I'd really like to find out more information about "D Howard Shirley" or "Grandma Ellen Taylor".
If there are any experts in #genealogy especially around #Chicago around 1900s. It makes me want to talk to the genealogists at "History's Mysteries"! 😁
Does anyone have any ideas? Maybe Howard had family, and would like to have a baby picture!