In an online article “Data Entry Standards for Genealogists & Research,” there is a section on Dates. Here is what this guide says about entering dates: The most readable and reliable format for presenting dates is day, month, year; this style is least likely to create confusion when entering, matching, or merging data. Abbreviate months
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Online Guide to Historic Maps of Cleveland and the Western Reserve
Did you every wonder if a map was available for a specific location in the Cleveland area and for a specific time period? Well, there is a website for that: Cleveland Cartography at http://www.clevelandmemory.com/speccoll/maps/clevmaps.html The website was created and is maintained by Bill Barrow, head of special collections at Cleveland State University. You can read about
Read on »Grandpa Huskonen Becomes a U.S. Citizen
My paternal grandfather, Evert Huuskonen, immigrated to America in 1902. He arrived in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on the SS Tunisian, and entered the U.S. at Buffalo, New York on 29 Oct 1902. He left behind in Finland his wife, Ida Maria, and four children: Edith, Emil, Wilma, and Mary. They would join him the
Read on »Learning About My Seventh Great Grandmother from Holland
This is a followup from my post of yesterday: Ancestry.com Providing Thousands of Hints for My Research . My maternal seventh great grandmother was Eva Albertssen Bratt, b 9 Jan 1633 in Amsterdam, Holland. When I reviewed my entry for her on my Huskonen-Dingman-Van Court-Scheppelmann Ancestry tree, I found that I only had a paltry two
Read on »Ancestry.com Providing Thousands of Hints for My Research
Today, I checked my Ancestry.com account and learned that my favorite subscription database provider has found 17,987 “hints” for my research. Many of these are for my Huskonen-Dingman-Van Court-Scheppelmann family tree. But many others are for the some 50 trees that I have created for ancillary research projects, including some for myself and others for
Read on »Use eGENEe to Search for Genealogy Websites, Resources
I am a regular reader of Dick Eastman’s Genealogy News. In February 23, 2016, he posted an article about eGENEe, a website containing a catalog of genealogy and history websites. (To read his post, go here: http://blog.eogn.com/2016/02/23/use-egenee-to-search-for-genealogy-and-history-websites-and-resources/) He explains that Anita Brubaker, the owner of eGENEe, says she began keeping a list of useful, reliable websites
Read on »The Family Dinner
Lately, with all the focus on the runup to the 2016 Presidential Election, I have been somehow reminded about my family sitting around the dinner table in the mid-1950s discussing topics ranging from family developments to national news of the day. Mind you, I don’t recall any specific topics, but only that Dad and Mom
Read on »Ancestry Responds to Concerns of Users of New Ancestry with Updates
Hard on the heels of the reminder notificati0n that Ancestry.com was moving completely to the “new” Ancestry website on 15 Dec 2015, and the announcement that it was ending sales of the personal genealogical database program Family Tree Maker, the genealogical database provider put out a new list of updates and changes to the “new”
Read on »HeritageQuest Online–Now improved and powered by Ancestry
One month ago, ProQuest LLC, an Internet database provider based in Ann Arbor, MI, announced a new version of its popular HeritageQuest Online (HQ). The company makes the service available through public libraries that pay a subscription fee. Since then, I have worked with HQ as it is offered by the Cuyahoga County Public Library
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