Grandma, Ora Nelms Foster, Hands Off the Baton to Me
Allyson Felix's sub-50 second leg helps USA advance to 4x400 finals | NBC Sports Just as the runner hands the baton off to her companion...
The Myth of Ellis Island, Conclusion, or, at least, My Current Thinking
Here I come to find that I have a way to go in the use of the GPS. I began this series of blog posts with the (unrealistic) hope that I...
The Myth of Ellis Island, Part 4
Genealogy Proof Standard Study Group Homework Chapter Three — Evaluating Records Reference: Christine Rose, Genealogical Proof Standard:...
The Myth of Ellis Island, Part 3
Genealogy Proof Standard Study Group Homework Chapter Two—Building a Solid Case Reference: Christine Rose, Genealogical Proof Standard:...
The Myth of Ellis Island, Part 2
Genealogy Proof Standard Study Group Homework Chapter One--What is the Genealogical Proof Standard? Reference: Christine Rose,...
The Myth of Ellis Island, Part 1
In my previous blog post, “What’s In A Name,” I used the example of my second great grandfather, Yussel Wilkimirsky (also known as Joseph...
What's in a Name?
What IS in a name? We all remember learning this famous line in high school English, written by Shakespeare, uttered by Juliet Capulet,...
Finding the Fraimans
There is a photograph that is “famous” in my father’s family. We believe it was taken sometime in the late 19th century in the shtetl...
How to get past the indexed record
By Robin Foster If you use online databases to research at FamilySearch.org or Ancestry.com you may have come across indexed records. ...
Why Start Over?
By Jan Edwards When most of us began doing family history times were way different. We did not have access to online anything. Online...
