Thoughts about Fires and Genealogy
I think I measured once and it is three miles from our house to the high school, a staging area for the fire fighters for the Flagstaff fire. The fire was actually more behind Bear Mountain in Skunk Canyon...
Read moreSome Things are Worth the Extra Money
I Like Milk I have always liked milk. Growing up in a family of six with five huge milk drinkers, I can’t imagine how many gallons we went through in a week. When I went to college, I drank...
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Researching Conrad Brown, Charles Gile Willson or William Monroe Miller
When Christina Brown wife of Conrad Brown appeared in the will of Balthaser Henritze, my heart sank a bit at the thought of tracking down Browns. However, it wasn’t so bad, the family generally stayed in Reading and Conrad...
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Hundred of Families and Thousands of People Located in the 1940 Census
In the last 90 days, I have searched and read the 1940 federal population census for hundreds of families and located thousands of people in multiple states, some indexed, some not. Ancestry has indexed: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware,...
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Friends of the Library and Summer Book Sales
You know you were from Basking Ridge if you spent the Fourth of July at Somerset Hills Golf Course watching the fireworks and Labor Day at the Kiwanis Fair walking around for hours behind Oak Street. Summer brings out book sales...
Read moreHidden Chronicles and Genealogy
The funniest thing happened on the way to researching the other day on the computer. Two different friends of mine who are also on Facebook were listed playing Hidden Chronicles, a specific computer Facebook/Zynga game. These two women don’t know each...
Read moreGreat Harvest, Xona Resorts and the Conference Center & Inn
A Study in Contrasts Great Harvest in Boulder, Xona Resorts in Scottsdale and The Conference Center & Inn in Clemson Months ago when I started my blog, I knew it would be about genealogy and books. Of course, I...
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Which is Jean Webster’s Best Book, Daddy-Long-Legs or Dear Enemy?
There was a Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron musical Daddy Long-Legs taken roughly from the book by Jean Webster. I love musicals, and as many as I have seen, I haven’t seen this one from 1955 . I don’t...
Read moreAbstract of Personal Names in the Reading Eagle newspaper January 1868 through March 1868 issues
The Reading Eagle was first published in January 1868 in Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. I have abstracted the local personal names from the January, February and March newspaper issues. Remember when you are searching, many times the editor used...
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Go West Young Man, Go West
Recently I have been reading and indexing the beginning issues of the Reading Eagle in early 1868. Several things stick out; the first is the number of railroad injuries, maimings and deaths, reported in almost every issue. It is horrific....
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