Recent Posts Tagged With 'friday findings'

• Friday Findings:

  Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 16:31 in friday findings

  This week was too busy to get regular research done. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a genealogy-free week!First and foremost was my presentation Wednesday evening of "Frugal Genealogy or How Not to Spend a Fortune on Your Family Tree" at the Tri-Cit...

• Friday Findings: BARBER, COLE and WILLIS Death Certficates

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 18:18 in willis, barber, cole, wyckoff, friday findings

  I forgot to mention in last week's Friday Findings that I had found two of my ancestor's death certificates on the Seeking Michigan website: James W. BARBER and Elizabeth A. "Betsey" COLE were my paternal 3rd-great-grandparents. I had difficulty find...

• Friday Findings: DeVRIES and other Dutch Lines

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 11:51 in Virginia, chaplin, hoekstra, devries, friday findings, jonker

  The last couple of weeks have just been rather crazy and chaotic, and although I did have some great finds, keeping up with blogging about it wasn't easy.The first big find was when Henk van Kampen read my DeVRIES Surname Saturday post and left a com...

• Friday Findings: A Potluck of Goodies

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 18:52 in strong, robbins, hoekstra, friday findings

  This week brought a hodgepodge of different genealogical goodies my way!The Photo AlbumI've been reviewing and analyzing the contents of a photograph album/scrapbook that my maternal great-grandmother kept (one of the items my uncle brought out to us...

• Friday Findings: Magazines and a Bonanza

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 04:00 in friday findings

  I haven't done Friday Findings in a while, and am hoping to get back on track with it. It's a great way to keep track of any research I've done or discoveries I've made over the past week.I received the September 2009 issue of Family Tree Magazine an...

• Friday Findings: More on the Polar Bears Documentary, Plus Some JOHNSONs

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 08:24 in Massachusetts, johnson, friday findings

  This has been one of those crazy busy weeks where I'm burning the candle at both ends and perhaps in the middle as well, so I didn't get much done in the area of research (if you've e-mailed me or commented on my blog, it may be a while before I resp...

• Friday Findings: McLALLIN Pension Record (Again)

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 21:27 in cleveland, mcclellan, friday findings

  Hands down, my biggest find this week was receiving the 72-page Civil War Veteran's Pension Application for my 4th-great-grandfather, Levi E. McLALLIN. In an earlier post, I spelled his surname "McCLELLAN," but his signature on many of the documents...

• Friday Findings: WILLIS and a Polar Bear Film

  Posted on Saturday January 17th, 2009 at 00:40 in friday findings

  I really didn't have any time to do research this week, as it was my first full week of work (last week, there were three snow days, so I only worked Tuesday and Friday). Not only did I not have a lot of time to research, but I was often pretty tire...

• Friday Findings: LEWIS, TUINSTRA, Lookups and (Maybe) a Bigamist

  Posted on Saturday January 10th, 2009 at 12:35 in lewis, grand rapids, midkiff, tuinstra, friday findings

  I had hoped to post this last night, but was too exhausted after a long day to finish up the details. This has been a completely weird week, so I don't feel like I got much accomplished. Things happened in fits and starts, so to speak. School was ...

• Friday Findings: VALK, LEWIS, McCLELLAN, Markham Twp Ancestry

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 20:45 in lewis, mcclellan, valk, friday findings

  I haven't done a Friday Findings post in a while, and as I'm slowly returning to posting more of my regular "columns", I thought I'd start here. Friday Findings is a feature I started last summer to record my weekly research finds and cousin connect...