June 2011 Blog Posts (26)

There is a story in every document.

The more I am involved in family research, the more I love it. My personal research aside , the stories uncovered never cease to amaze me. I mean the fact is , what lay dormant  in the archives , is someone’s fascination of the future. Here are three brief examples of just some story lines discovered in my research this…

  As a major user of maps in my genealogy adventures I wanted to share this post from NGS to those whom read 

this blog. Yes, you can pass it along also.

Maps can unlock doors, direct you where you really need to be looking and explain how a person lived in four 

places and never moved.

   I also suspect that few genealogists are members of NGS and are aware of this information.

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 June 29, 2011 I will be presenting a talk on Migration Patterns to our local Chula Vista Genealogical Society.

 Here in is a synopsis and I am willing to present to the Thursday night group at 6 pm the same information after 

  29 June.  Vital Records time.

  Migration Patterns

I will be presenting information on some…

Flocking to Bucklebury - Explore the Villages of Your Ancestors Instead!

What information can we find for one family from one page of a Census ?

Well how about 3 marriages, 2 agricultural labourers, a widow, a Coal merchant, a cordwainer, 4 siblings living apart, a widower, a nephew, a father in law, a mother in law, cousins, and several scholars ! Not to mention the uninhabited buildings.

A brief family study in a part of…