Posts By: whuskonen

Genealogy Guys Laud OGS in Oct Podcast

The Genealogy Guys, Drew Smith and George Morgan, were the featured presenters at the Ohio Genealogical Fall Seminar, held in Bellville, on October 8. I have just caught up with their very favorable comments about their visit to OGS at the beginning of their October 8, 2013, podcast (No. 256). I thought others might like

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Want To Be On Genealogy Roadshow? Here’s First Step

We don’t know how the first season of Genealogy Roadshow (GR) was put together. If you watched the inaugural season on your local PBS station, you know that four cities were featured–Nashville, Detroit, San Francisco, and Austin, TX–and subjects came to a historic landmark building in each city to be presented with genealogical research results

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How-to-Do-It Info Posted in Blog from Ancestry.com

I have been subscribed for some time to the Ancestry.com Blog, but I must admit that I haven’t studied the content in any detail. Going forward, I will be paying more attention to the content, because it is really valuable. For example, in the 17 Oct 2013 posting, the blog provides a discussion of The

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Making Your Genealogical Research More Efficient with Evernote

Evernote is a free, note-taking/capturing technology useful for collecting results during your research, whether online or on location. It also helps you organize what you have collected. In a nutshell, Evernote is designed specifically to capture or record quickly what you are finding, and thus speed up your research and make it more efficient. Then,

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Where’s Otto? The Final Chapter

One year ago, I started on a journey to track down the family of my uncle by marriage, Frank Nikkari. When I started, I only had his obituary and his social security application card (I had purchased it back in the day, when it cost only $7). But there was the Internet, and Ancestry.com, and

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Amazing New Scanner for Family History Materials

On Saturday, 12 Oct 2013, I attended a presentation by Norm Henke at the computer genealogy group, NEOCAG (a local genealogical society focusing on using computers in genealogy–go to http://neocag.net/), on going paperless in genealogy with a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner. This peaked my curiosity, so I went to the Fujitsu website http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/scanners/scansnap/, scrolled down the

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Hello world! A fresh start.

Wally Huskonen here, starting a new blog. I have been blogging before using Blogspot, and now I am using WordPress. So far, it seems to represents an upgrade in capabilities. I am creating this blog in a website format using WebHostingHub. We’ll see how that works out. Going forward, I will be adding material from

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Ancestry.com Purchases Find A Grave

The following was an important announcement by Ancestory.com made on 30 Sep 2013: We are pleased to announce that Ancestry.com LLC has acquired Find A Grave, Inc., the leading online cemetery database. With over 100 million memorials and 75 million photos, Find A Grave has amassed an unparalleled collection of burial information. Over the past

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Behind the Scenes at Who Do You Think You Are?

Have you been watching the latest season of “Who Do You Think You Are?” on TLC? Recently, I learned that one of the genealogists that did background work on the first episode, featuring Kelly Clarkson and her Civil War ancestor, was Deb Deal, OGS Trustee. She told me that she was hired to do about

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WRHS Schedules All-Day German Seminar for Sept 14

I’m looking forward to attending the seminar, “Researching German Ancestors,” scheduled at the Western Reserve Historical Society for Saturday, Sept 14, 2013. The event is being hosted by the WRHS Genealogical Committee, an auxiliary of the Society. It will be presented by Warren Bittner, CG, at WRHS History Center at 10825 East Boulevard, in University

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