Heirloom Gifts
My dear friend Kim suggested I offer special Holiday Heirloom Gifts, research on a favorite ancestor with a client supplied photograph and background facts, and the research, documents and report supplied by me. At first it seemed curious, but...
Read moreGetting Ready to Get Started or First, Scan the Passports
What to do first, prior to researching Getting Ready To Get Started Several suggestions when you are about to start a new genealogical project: Clean off your desk and your “to do” list. You are about to create paperwork....
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Questions You Didn’t Ask at Thanksgiving Dinner Last Year
When I was seven or eight, my grandmother gave me a fountain pen with a ring on the top to hang from a necklace. It was broken, tarnished and missing a tiny chip about a quarter of an inch...
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Bibliographic Checklist of African American Newspapers
While in the library for heat and power a couple weeks ago during a snow storm, I checked various databases and search engines for my surname, Henritze. I know pretty much who and what should be found. Henritze, Esenwein...
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Marriage Records
Marriage Records Marriage records include applications, bonds, coupons, registers, licenses, returns, certifications and solemnizations. My friend asked what she should do since the local courthouse had no record of her ancestors’ marriage. I started a riff about indexing, illegible...
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Quilts, A Non Traditional Source for the Big Three: Births, Marriages and Deaths
Births, Marriages and Deaths Last week, a friend shared wonderfully invigorating news, she is to be a grandmother next year. This in and of itself is not hard to believe, her daughter is in her late twenties, married, employed,...
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Another Snowy Day – County Histories
W. A. Carver wrote McCurtain County and southeast Oklahoma: history, biography, statistics: a complete business and trade directory of the county, published in 1923 in Idabel, Oklahoma. This is one of many county histories available from Heritage Quest Online...
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