Feb 10, 2014 | Genealogy Blog
Grave robbing used to be a real concern. We read of the body-knapping of Miss Prude Temple by a medical student in Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, page 252: Lydia [Floyd], b. at Weston, June 1,...
May 25, 2013 | Genealogy Blog
GREENWICH—News was received yesterday of the death Tuesday of Carson Calhoun of smallpox in quarantine at St. Louis. He had been a teacher in the Philippine Islands, but came to St. Louis as interpreter and manager of a tribe of Bogobos at the World’s Fair. The...
Dec 29, 2012 | Genealogy Blog
When researching my extended family in old newspapers online, I found an extremely sad story. It was of grandparents driving in a car with their grandchildren when they collided with a gasoline truck. A three year old was badly hurt and later died at the hospital. ...
Dec 12, 2012 | Genealogy Blog
I decided to look for some clues for one of my ancestors online in the user family trees on Ancestry.com. I don’t use those trees often since the quality is questionable, but I admit have found some trees had my dead-end lines filled in correctly. Not that I...
Aug 7, 2012 | Genealogy Blog
On Saturday, FamilySearch announced that its volunteers had completed indexing the 1940 US Census. The remaining, unposted states are going through a quality review and will be posted in the next few weeks. 160,000 volunteers helped accomplish this monumental task....
Jul 19, 2010 | Genealogy Blog
My family just got back from a 4 day trip to my in-laws house in Lambton, Quebec, Canada. Is anyone else researching Quebec, Canada? Are you having trouble finding information on the cemeteries there? I have been. Even on the online maps, the cemeteries may be greyed...
