Posted in Carnival Of Genealogy on Jun 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
It’s getting close to the deadline for the Carnival Of Genealogy and I wanted to try to make sure that I got a little story in about my favorite pet of all, Rocky! Please bear with me as I write this as I am a little inebriated at the moment! (Good times at the baby [...]
Posted in Internet Services on Jun 13th, 2008 No Comments »
OK, I’m not trying to be negative but I had an incredibly eye-opening experience today. On my research trip today I was excited to finally go searching for birth and death records of folks who were born in the late 1800s and died in the very early 1900s. How wonderful it would be to get [...]
Posted in Research Notes on Jun 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Today has been a very good genealogy day. I had a lot of luck on my trip to the Red River Valley Court House in Clarksville. I was able to come away with several marriage records, I was able to get a few birth dates and correct some names and had a very surprising discovery [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General, Internet Services on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I just wanted to take a moment and thank all of you who have added me as a friend at Facebook. I know I don’t post much on “The Wall” and that I may not seem to do much on my page but I do go there!
It’s been very interesting to be able [...]
Posted in Genealogy In General on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
OK, the first part of this post everyone will figure out. After all, this is so “old school”!
So, what do you see above? That’s right, a black dot! Of course, I’m supposed to say “What about all the white space?” Well that brings me to the topic of this post. Do we all [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
This is the death certificate for George Handford Hicks. It was obtained from Family Search Labs and is part of my research for my elusive great-uncle, Martin Isaic Spangler.
The one thing I learned in obtaining this death certificate and the previously posted one is that the informant’s name is given as Ella Robinson and on [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I just wanted to share the death certificates for Stella Ferguson and George Hicks with you. I had posted earlier about the posting of images from the Family Search Labs but as Ruth at Bluebonnet Country Genealogy put it, it’s all offered freely and so it shouldn’t be a problem. So here is the death [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I just wanted to post that today was actually a fun day for a change. I’m usually just laid back and do nothing on Sundays. Today was different.
Yesterday, I ended a 34 hour marathon of no sleep with a crash time of 10 hours! It was a terrible day, even though the last part [...]
Posted in Internet Services on Jun 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
Today, I was reading some of my favorite blogs and noticed that a few folks had posted some of the death certificates from the Family Search Labs. I’m very excited about theses databases, especially the Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
I’m just curious though. Does anyone remember the Ancestry fiasco last year? You know, folks were posting images [...]
Posted in Obituaries on Jun 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
In doing my research on my elusive Martin Isaic Spangler, I discovered that the death date for Stella (Ferguson) Hicks and her husband, George Hicks were both the same. I was intrigued and thought it would be worth investigating. Was it a fire, an act of nature such as a tornado or flood, or what [...]
