No names were on the back of this, although I believe one of the ladies is Margaret Mandel, a cousin on my Farkas side. 2022: Still no identification of two of the three ladies.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Costumed mystery ladies
Being photographed in a studio wearing fun or impressive getups was a favorite activity of my ancestors in early 1900s New York City.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Cousin Larry and the Wood family
Thanks to Cousin Larry, we know a lot about my hubby's Wood ancestors. He's a meticulous researcher and doesn't let up even when the going gets tough. Surprisingly, he found out that a distant cousin of his and hubby's (who married into the huge Foote family of Wethersfield) lived and died in my town. So now I can do some local research the old fashioned way--in my local library--instead of mousing around the web.
UPDATE in 2022: I was never able to find this Foote ancestor's grave, despite searching locally and in the state library.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
National Archives and Family Historians
Browsing the National Archives site, I found "Resources for Genealogists and Family Historians." Lots of "how to" links explaining use of the archives, plus genealogy tips, info on upcoming events, new data and old-reliable collections often searched by people climbing their family trees (like me). Just bookmarked this for fast future reference.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Old Abbreviations Describing Death
Searching online for genealogy blogs, I ran across Life of Riley, which has a very useful post today about old abbreviations. A sample, copied from today's post:
- d.s.p.l. - died without legitimate issue
- d.s.p.m.s. - died without surviving male issue
- d.s.p.s - died without surviving issue
- d.unm - died unmarried
Monday, February 23, 2009
Linkpendium has more than 10 million links?!
UPDATE 2022: One reason I like Linkpendium is its categorization of genealogy links, by state, by worldwide surname, etc. Every month it adds new links. So many links, so little time. There are well over 10,000,000 links to family history resources at this time!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Twitter Genealogy
2022 update: For fun and informative Twitter chats about genealogy, try #GenChat (alternate Friday evenings, US time), #AncestryHour (Tuesday afternoons, US time), and several other live chats that take place only on Twitter.
Watch for the tags #Genealogy and #FamilyHistory for tweets about these topics.
I'm on Twitter as @MarianBWood - see you there!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Google Your Family Tree
Dan Lynch's book is now out of print, but Google Your Family Tree was a wonderful reference tool when I was digging deeper into online searches for ancestors, ancestral communities, and specific aspects of family history. UPDATED 2022.
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