I Didn’t Touch that Newspaper
Researching Black Newspapers The process by which I added papers to my checklist was simple. It was source by source, list by list, one by one. Around twenty years ago while researching my book, Bibliographic Checklist of African American...
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Genealogical Quilt Books
Genealogical Quilt Books Luckily for us, my mother gave us a beautiful quilt as a wedding present, made by her grandmother Flora Anna Coogle Armstrong, and great grandmother Minnie Araminta Sibert Coogle. My mother set aside one for each...
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Marriages or Unions – Proof in the Census?
Marriage records are not all retrievable. When you are frustrated about the lack of information regarding a marriage; when civil marriage records can not be located, sometimes the reason is easy, obvious and still unsolvable: The Big Lie to...
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Favorites – Genealogical Research Libraries
Favorite Top Ten Genealogical Research Libraries in the United States My favorite research libraries in order from East to West: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. D.A.R. Library, Washington, D.C. Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland Allen County Public...
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Top Ten Favorite Genealogical Libraries
My Top Ten Personal Favorite Genealogical Research Libraries I love libraries and try stop by to visit even the smallest library when I travel. If the library is having a book sale that day, all the better for...
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Truth or Myth – Born at Sea
Born At Sea A couple of weeks ago, a television commercial by Ancestry caught my attention. The actor wondered why his grandparents never mentioned they lived next door to the Wright brothers. How could that fact, amongst all others,...
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