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I have a new name for a branch on my family tree. This branch is one I am just starting to piece together. The name I found doesn’t lead me anywhere in particular except to give me more confidence that I have found the right DeLong family in census records. When I was putting together…
Writing this post today has put me in a quirky mood so indulge me… Let’s pretend there’s a photo of a person of medium height with a medium build, blue eyes and light brown hair over there on the left instead of one of a camera, okay? You see, if I had any connection with…
Other things may change us, be we start and end with family. —Anthony Brandt
Henry George Buisch is my great grandfather. His youngest child, Grace Rose, is my grandmother. Henry was born in December 1848 in either Wyoming or Erie County New York to Henry Buisch and Margaret Hausauer. The earliest record I currently have for Henry is the 1860 US Federal Census for New York. Henry is 12…
He who has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. —Thomas Fuller
Amy Johnson Crow of NoStoryTooSmall has issued a challenge to family history bloggers to post about an ancestor a week during 2014. I read about the challenge on the Ancestry blog and thought I would participate. The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a…
New pins to my Genealogy board this week include links to two new [to me] resources that may be helpful in researching my mother’s Irish and Scottish ancestors. Church of Scotland Historical Records Irish Family History Foundation The following two links are to an article and a video lesson on FamilySearch.org that are relevant to…
Juliana Smith writes on the Ancestry.com blog about 6 Resolutions to Get Your Family History on Track for 2014. I don’t make resolutions but I like to make a list of things I want to accomplish in the upcoming year. My list is supposed to keep me focused. [Anyone who knows me personally is now…