Informal Letter Writing There are different types of letters such as informal, formal, business and opinion letters. Each contains a greeting, a body text and an ending. The main differences are the style of writing. Informal letters are those one…
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Not so many years ago March first was Moving Day for many farm families. One would see the roads lined with vehicles filled with furniture or farm machinery being moved. There were several reasons why some farm families moved around…
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Everyone knows that baking soda is a wonderful cleaning and deodorizing agent. There are also literally hundreds of other uses for baking soda. Some of them are not as well known and new uses are being discovered every day. The…
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One of the world’s most popular hobbies is genealogy. Those of you reading this can probably say that you have, at least, dabbled a bit or have already been bitten by the genealogy bug. What is genealogy, anyway? Derived from…
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A useful tool to the genealogist is the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). This is a huge database containing more than 82 million records of deaths that have been reported to the Social Security Administration. Included in the file is…
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For the genealogist a veteran’s pension file can hold a gold mine of information. The ones most sought after are the ones from the Revolutionary War, but those are not the only military records available. Excellent records of the men…
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The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935. In 1937 the first payroll taxes were collected from more than thirty million Americans and lump-sum death benefits were paid to more than 53 thousand beneficiaries….
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Church and cemetery records are valuable assets for genealogists. Sometimes those are the only records available to give information about your ancestors. Church records tell about births, marriages, baptisms, deaths and burials. Gravestones are an excellent source of dates, birthplaces,…
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Genealogy, the history of the descent of a family, is often shown as a family tree, listing in order of succession, from the earliest known ancestor down through later generations in lines of direct and collateral descent. Genealogy also covers…
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Summer is the time genealogists hit the road in search of clues to their ancestors. Whether you go in the summer or some other time, before starting out on that trip there are plans that need to be made to…
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One of the early situations that confront a person doing genealogy research is what to do with all the information the researcher has been collecting. It doesn’t make much sense to just have little scraps of data here and there,…
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The first thing all family researchers learn is to start with themselves. Write down as much family information as you can find, starting with immediate family members.Look for records containing information about the birth, marriage, school, military service and any…
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As a person begins researching his/her family, one of the questions that comes to mind is, ” How do I find vital records including birth, death, marriage and divorce dates about my ancestors?” This will not include web sites which…
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So you want to research your family tree. One of the first things you need is a method of recording the information you find. A pedigree chart is a good way to start. * What is a pedigree chart? As…
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It is likely that at some point in your life you will have a desire to learn more about the members of your family who lived in the past. People have always been interested in their ancestors. Today families no…
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Often it is difficult to trace female relatives because of lack of a maiden name. Women were generally not allowed to own property so the land they inherited was in their husband’s name or that of a male relative. In…
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