The local newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has made the move to electronic distribution and cut back on the delivery of printed copies to four days a week: Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. I still wake up in the morning ready to go out to the end of the driveway and pick up the paper.
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The German Research Companion
I have acquired a useful book on genealogical research for my personal library: The German Research Companion, by Shirley J. Reimer, Roger P. Minert, and Jennifer A. Anderson. This third edition, published by Lorelei Press, contains 706 pages, and includes basic and advanced material about doing research on German ancestors both in the United States
Read on »My Grandson Wins Family History Writing Competition
The following article was written by my grandson, Korey Wallace Huskonen, and entered in the Western Reserve Historical Society My Favorite Western Reserve Ancestor writing competition. He won $50 for first prize in the 18 and under category. Needless to say, I am quite proud of his article. My Favorite Western Reserve Ancestor: Walfrid Herbert
Read on »A Second Grader’s Heritage Project
Holiday gatherings are an opportunity for families to talk about relatives and ancestors. Sometimes children are interested and sometimes not so much. On this 2012 Thanksgiving, I had a wonderful sharing experience. Just before my wife and I left to drive to Rochester, NY, for our Thanksgiving get-together, my daughter called and said that our
Read on »First Impressions: Using Family Tree on FamilySearch.org
I have started using the Family Tree feature developed by FamilySearch.org. As you may know, this has been available for use by LDS members for some time. Well, now it is out of beta testing and available to non-LDS members. Development continues on Family Tree, which is termed an update that will eventaully replace FamilySearch.org,
Read on »Brecksville Bicentennial Book Offered for Sale
I just obtained a copy of the book commenorating the bicentennial of Brecksville, my home town. The bicentennial of Brecksville Township’s founding actually was celebrated last year in a year-long celebration, with a specially emphasis during Home Days in June. A historical subcommittee had been working for a couple years on the book and originally
Read on »Newspaper Article about a Dog Named Buster Adds Information
One day last week I received a phone call from Carl Feather, a feature writer for the Ashtabula, Ohio, Star Beacon. He was calling at the suggestion of Penny Redmon, my wife’s first cousin once removed, to see if we had a photo of Buster, the beloved pet of my wife’s grandfather, James Van Court.
Read on »Breaking News: Use Google to Search in 1940 Census
I just discovered something interesting: You can use Google to search in Ancestry.com’s version of the 1940 Census database. I was searching for information on my uncle, Wallace Dingman, using Google, and up popped a hit on his 1940 census record in Buffalo, New York. It actually was the No. 4 hit in the list
Read on »Googling for “Isaly Fire in Andover” in 1955
In our emails back and forth recently, my brother, Walfrid came up with some events at home while we were growing up in Andover, Ohio. While I didn’t remember all of them, I did take note so that I can compile a time line of our growing up in Andover, and especially our house at
Read on »Identifying Year of a Photograph, with help from Google
Today, I was comparing notes with my brother, Walfrid, trying to guess when a photograph of our grandmother, Ida Maria (Hytönen) Huskonen was taken, probably by our father. I was able to enlarge the digital file of the photo large enough to be able to read the days of the month on a calendar hanging
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