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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Family history research can be fascinating or frustrating – fascinating when your ancestors pop up and seem to tell their stories, frustrating when they seem to be hiding! Through sharing how I finally found Isabelle – after more than 20…
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There is a deep need inside of people to know who they truly are inside, and many people spend a large part of their lives searching for the answer; one way people go about this search is to look towards…
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The saddest and most frustrating thing about genealogy is only having a name, and possibly a picture to relate too. Of course you might find an obituary, that lists the basics of when, where and how, but it isn’t quite…
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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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Genealogy used to be a profession for experts or a hobby requiring infinite patience on the part of the amateur. It involved writing letters to strangers, often in overseas destinations, and then waiting weeks or months for a reply which…
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The Social Security Death Index is exactly what it advertises to be, a vast database of death records (About 82 million people) covering almost everyone who ever had been issued a Social Security number. For the most part this is used…
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Bathrooms are deemed one of the most dangerous areas of a home. When elderly people come into the equation, a bathroom can be a potential danger. Statistics show that a large number of elderly folk are admitted to hospital each…
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When I first thought about creating a website to share information on my family name with the world, I was a little apprehensive. I had never created a website before and the Internet language was confusing. Still, I believed with…
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I used to think that studying the family tree, (or genealogy to give it it’s proper name), was some weird hobby that only older people did, as they sat poring over dusty tomes in little known libraries across the world,…
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Out of the many free services useful in genealogical research, the Social Security Death Index is one of the best. It does not provide an extensive amount of information about deceased persons, but it does provide information that can be…
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Statistics have shown that the senior population is over 35 million and that means that many will perhaps end up in nursing homes, assisted living, in-home care and other elderly care facilities. All these facilities require staff to provide care for…
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Many genealogists, both professional ones and hobbyists, are driven by finding that next generation back. The same questions that make many people start genealogy in the first place apply here too: who were they? where did they come from? The…
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The basic doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints include a belief that there are some things that must take place on this earth for the soul to continue on the progress through eternity. Since it is…
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A few short decades ago, longevity for citizens of the US was estimated at seventy years, but with technological advances seniors are living longer and having an easier time of it. In the areas of medical technology, communications, mobility, and…
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Researching your genealogy online, some say, is the second most popular use of the internet. The first is pornography*. Though sex has gotten you here, it likely won’t help you find your ancestors. It is the hard-to-find books and databases…
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The old adage “we are what we eat” makes very good sense. If we eat healthy we look and feel healthy. Yet a myriad of older adults fail to take their age and dietary needs into account and continue to eat…
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Obtaining old veteran’s military service records can be a great way to augment family histories or for use in any number of functions. The trick to getting them lies in who you are in relation to the veteran. As veterans…
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A nursing home is a residential institution that provides medical or non-medical care, chiefly for people who are 65 years old or older. Nearly all homes do accept younger patients. The best ones strive to provide a comfortable, homelike environment…
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One can spend days listing great websites with the best resources for genealogy, but in reality, just one website is all that is needed. It is the portal to the thousands of websites on the Internet that are dedicated to…
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As if your family didn’t annoy you enough today, but now the ones, born and died over 100 years before you, are starting to annoy you as well. If this is you, then you must be a genealogist. Most of…
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Learning how to perform and carry out a Native American genealogy search is a bit trickier than the manner you would use to search for non-Native American records. There are however some excellent resources available and knowing what they are…
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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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Family fun is not only important but valuable. It builds team-work, trust, self-confidence and love. Besides all of that, it relieves the stress that all family members have in their busy lives. Just how do you work family fun in…
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Old age – the later years of adulthood and the final stage of life itself – begins about the mid sixties. Analysts sometimes distinguish two cohorts of the elderly, roughly equal in size (Himes. 2001). Our aging parents can either…
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To realize technology’s impact on elder care, I have to look no further than my own grandparents. My maternal grandparents became nursing home residents in the late 1980s. At age 97 and counting, my paternal grandmother still lives alone in…
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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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Because of my brother’s long time commitment to genealogy, we can trace our ancestry back to England thirty-one generations prior to ours. Our thirty-first generation ancestors were Osbert de Hampden, Geoffrey de Boulogne and Geoffrey’s wife Beatrix de Mandeville. First…
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As the chronological age of the population increases, so does the cost of healthcare. With the advancement of medicine, more and more individuals are becoming centurions; and have expressed that they never expected to live as long. Therefore, they have not prepared…
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More and more people are waking up every day and finding themselves faced with the dilemma of how to cut the costs of elder care. When my maternal grandfather had surgery to repair a pinched nerve in his neck, the…
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