Archive: Footprints from the Past category
For the past while -- months and months -- I've run into two main obstacles. The first is making the time for genealogy research. If I don't have a regular time each week for working on my lines, it generally won't happen, at least not unless genealogy has ...
Spent an hour talking with my grandmother on my mom's side (it was her birthday). I hadn't planned on more than five minutes, actually, but I'd been reading Dean Hughes' book Rumors of War (which takes place at the beginning of WWII) and realized that my grandma was alive ...
As someone who works a genealogy-related job (coding genealogy software), you'd think I would be spending a lot of time on my own research. That's how it ought to be, but I've let other things consume my time and attentions. And yet genealogy is important. I like ...
Hmm, I'm not updating this as often as I'd like. Which means, basically, that I'm not doing as much genealogy as I ought. :) Beyond has fallen by the wayside (no time!) and will probably remain there for the time being. But I shouldn't let that stop ...
Um, I'm not dead, I promise. :) Things are wee bit busy right now (both at work and with other projects, like Beyond), but after August I should have more time. And by then I'll be spending most of my free time on Beyond, which will lead ...
I'm even more excited than I was when I wrote that last post. So, I was looking through the pedigree, trying a few other people (most of whom weren't in OneWorldTree), and then I came to Sarah Frances Burnett, daughter of John Adam Burnett ("Squire" he was called) and ...
I'm preparing a lesson on how to do genealogy for my ward (they're having me train the FHE groups, two tomorrow and two next week, because our stake has a goal to have every member find two names and take them to the temple before August 4), and I randomly ...
I got this e-mail from Jordan Kearney about Edwin D. Willcox (who married Eliza Shanks, the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Shanks):
I have been able to find a little information on three of his children. Robert E. Willcox enlisted on June 19, 1861 in Co. A, 12th Virginia Infantry in ...
Yesterday I spent some time on EllisIsland.org trying to figure out which of the Domenico Iorios listed is my great-great grandfather. My mom's maternal grandfather was Joseph Iorio, born in 1902 in New Jersey. In the birth certificate, his parents are listed as Domenico Iorio and Teresa ...
I've written about Robert Shanks (of Petersburg) in the past, both on my Blank Slate journals and on Top of the Mountains, and I think it's good to consolidate those entries here, because this will be the more definitive reference in the future (and any new findings will show up ...
