Friday Findings: McCLELLAN Pension Record, E-mails, Atlas Project, BORCHERS

I ordered the Civil War Pension Record for my 4th-great-grandfather, Levi E. McCLELLAN (McLELLAN, McLALLIN, etc.). That along with subscriptions for Internet Genealogy (renewal) and Discovering Family History (new) were some of my Christmas gifts this year.
On Saturday, I e-mailed the VALK and LEWIS cousins that had left comments in my website’s guestbook a [...]

On Vacation

Tomorrow I’ll be headed out with the Midkiff Clan for the wilds of Northeast Washington for a week of fun, sun, practical jokes, and late-night sessions of Balderdash! Having no wireless Internet service available, I’ll be catching up on a lot of reading and possibly doing some offline blogging on my laptop to post [...]

On Vacation

Tomorrow I’ll be headed out with the Midkiff Clan for the wilds of Northeast Washington for a week of fun, sun, practical jokes, and late-night sessions of Balderdash! Having no wireless Internet service available, I’ll be catching up on a lot of reading and possibly doing some offline blogging on my laptop to post [...]

Finding Out More on My ROBBINS Family – Part I

As a family historian, you get so that you think you know a lot about your family. I have the disadvantage of having always lived far away from my extended family, and so sometimes there are gaps in my knowledge that don’t get noticed until I start really analyzing my records. And then [...]

Finding Out More on My ROBBINS Family – Part I

As a family historian, you get so that you think you know a lot about your family. I have the disadvantage of having always lived far away from my extended family, and so sometimes there are gaps in my knowledge that don’t get noticed until I start really analyzing my records. And then [...]

New Genealogy Blogs

Dick Hillenbrand, over at Upstate New York Genealogy, has created a new blog called Genealogy Miscellanea. A description can be found at the beginning of his first post, “CHASE family founders of NECCO Candy Company“:
This Blog site was created for the express purpose of posting miscellaneous items of possible interest to others that does [...]

New Genealogy Blogs

Dick Hillenbrand, over at Upstate New York Genealogy, has created a new blog called Genealogy Miscellanea. A description can be found at the beginning of his first post, “CHASE family founders of NECCO Candy Company“:
This Blog site was created for the express purpose of posting miscellaneous items of possible interest to others that does [...]

The Year in Review (2006)

Jasia is encouraging those of us who participate in the Carnival of Genealogy to write about our New Year’s (Genealogy) Resolutions for 2007. Before I do that, I need to write about my accomplishments in 2006. Too often, when we set out to make New Year’s Resolutions, we don’t take the time to [...]

The Year in Review (2006)

Jasia is encouraging those of us who participate in the Carnival of Genealogy to write about our New Year’s (Genealogy) Resolutions for 2007. Before I do that, I need to write about my accomplishments in 2006. Too often, when we set out to make New Year’s Resolutions, we don’t take the time to [...]

Week of July 23 – 29, 2006

Saturday, July 29Diana Wilkes, a Find A Grave photo volunteer, blessed the socks off of me by not only taking many photos of my Robbins ancestors’ graves at Hesperia West Cemetery in Hesperia, Michigan, but also submmitting a cemetery map with all the Robbins’ graves marked! In addition, she will be mailing me a [...]