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Genealogical Musings: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Italian Foundling Surname 'la Casasanta'. Records showing various surnames for Maria. I've been doing a lot of research on my Italian branch recently and came across a perplexing situation in which I couldn't determine why one of my ancestors was seemingly going by two different surnames, and sometimes both together. Why would she have an alias? Record of Venanzio's birth naming his father. Why would he do that? Well, I decided to Google the name and couldn't really find anythi...
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Genealogical Musings: April 2015
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Names Crossed Off Passenger List. First and second pages of NY passenger list of Taormina. With names crossed off, Jan 28, 1914. Meanwhile, I have an infant relative in my tree who was born and died on board a ship in 1880 but her name is not crossed off the passenger list on her arrival. It does note "died" beside her details but she's not crossed off (see below). I see the crossing off more commonly in 20th century passenger lists. Taormina with names of those crossed off in NY,.
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Genealogical Musings: Writing a Family History
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Sunday, June 10, 2012. Writing a Family History. I am by no mean a professional or even skilled writer. I do my best but mostly, what I write, including this blog, is for my own personal enjoyment and if you think it's crap, well, you could very well be correct. But first, I start each chapter by giving an explanation about the history, origins, and meanings of the family name. For this, I mostly use Ancestry.com's surname look up. Next, comes the hard part: actually writing your ancestor's story. At...
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Genealogical Musings: November 2014
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Friday, November 21, 2014. Free Family Tree Software Review: Ancestris. Continuing in alphabetical order of free tree software reviews, this one is about Ancestris. The pedigree view (Dynamic Tree) is not much better, it's clunky looking and it took me a minute to realize the blank box below the two parents is meant to be for their marriage data. Another thing they don't exactly make very clear (shown right). So what are the positives to this software? Despite the fact that each fact for each individual ...
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Genealogical Musings: Italian Foundling Surname 'la Casasanta'
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Italian Foundling Surname 'la Casasanta'. Records showing various surnames for Maria. I've been doing a lot of research on my Italian branch recently and came across a perplexing situation in which I couldn't determine why one of my ancestors was seemingly going by two different surnames, and sometimes both together. Why would she have an alias? Record of Venanzio's birth naming his father. Why would he do that? Well, I decided to Google the name and couldn't really find anythi...
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Genealogical Musings: December 2014
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Monday, December 29, 2014. More Thoughts on DNA. 23andMe results showing 63% Northern European. Recently though, I had an epiphany which just solidified that there are consistencies across all the companies. It still doesn't tell me a more definite break down of my Northern European DNA, but it occurred to me that if I added up all my Northern European results, every company said the exact same thing: 63% Northern European. AncestryDNA results, circled percentages add up to 63%. German: 5% - range 0-20%.
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Genealogical Musings: Cynthia Herrin: A Red Herring
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Thursday, July 30, 2015. Cynthia Herrin: A Red Herring. Therefore, there is no evidence that this information is reliable. She claimed the same type of thing with a book called "Bertie Beginnings: The Story of Our County and Its Distinguished Citizens" - see this topic at RootWeb for more info. And with one called "Our Pioneers: Families of Early Oakland County, Michigan". See this topic for more info. Which still remains on Ancestry.com. It should probably be removed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Genealogical Musings: Beginners
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Thursday, June 7, 2012. I thought I would share some of the things I've learn in my genealogy journey that might help others. To many, these may be well known facts but I remember being a total newcomer to genealogy search and having to learn these things on my own. It doesn't take a family history expert to realize how quickly and easily stories get distorted. So take what you hear by word of mouth with a grain of salt but it is still your best starting point. Which has probably the largest free. I know...
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Genealogical Musings: Mystery Photos
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Well, it's partly dumb luck and partly an educated guess. Two of the photos in the pile are of the same guy (shown above) who also happens to be in a tintype (below) of a group shot containing my ancestor Mary Anne Rorer (far right in the photo) when she was looking particularly like a young woman (based on other pictures I have of her), probably before she was married in 1887. So probably sometime in the 1880s. Mystery guy has very distinctive lips, right? And find my blog an...
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Genealogical Musings: US Immigration Stats in History
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015. US Immigration Stats in History. 2000 US Census Data on Self Reported Ancestry. With this in mind, if you look at the stats I compiled in this spreadsheet. Demographic History of the United States. US Department of Homeland Security Yearbook 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Writing a Family History. Index Links to Italian Collections on FamilySearch.org. And this one on genealogy. If you're wondering, my avatar is one of my ancestors from my photographic heirloom collec...