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Keeping Your Marriage License Safe

Let’s play a game. How many of you know exactly where your marriage license is at this exact moment? No, don’t raise your hands – I can’t see you! Just think about it. Is it framed and hanging on your wall? Behind a plastic page protector in your scrapbook, right across from that glamour shot of you in your bridal gown? Or did it get put in that one drawer where everything ends up when you aren’t sure where to put it? Yes, you do too have one of those drawers. Everyone does, and there’s no point in denying it. … Continue reading →

Keeping a Genealogy Box

Many families keep old family photographs, letters and treasures in a box. In many cases, the box is a cedar chest or a trunk. Or the box may be an old shoe box or a cigar box. If it has been created recently, it may be kept in a plastic storage container. For those of us who haven’t inherited such a box, we can make one ourselves and ensure that there is one in our own family to be passed down to our children and grandchildren. Here are a few examples: Cedar Chest: The cedar chest has been used for … Continue reading →

Organization Police On The Job

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Today is the day! I’m very excited, today I get to help Nancy purge some stuff from her house. My friend Nancy is an admitted hoarder. She’s not as bad as the ones they make TV shows about but she still has way too much stuff. Nancy loves beautiful things. She has a collection of quilts that she has found at yard sales and thrift stores. She loves shoes, clothes, handbags. Nancy is always very well dressed and loves putting outfits together, she also hates wearing the same thing all the time. It’s going to be hard for her because … Continue reading →

Facial Reconstruction Could Identify Unknown Sailors

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Two skeletons of sailors were found on the USS Monitor when it was raised from the ocean floor. DNA testing has failed to produce a match with the sailors’ living descendants. Forensic facial reconstruction is now being done, in the hopes of identifying the unknown sailors, and perhaps finding their families. The USS Monitor was an ironclad ship that was used by the Union during the Civil War. The ship has been described as a “cheese box on a raft”. It was not designed to withstand sailing on rough water, and it was being towed by the USS Rhode Island … Continue reading →

Find Family Photos Lost in Tornado on Facebook

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A woman in Carthage, Missouri has put together a very special Facebook page. It is designed to help people who lost their family photos in the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, to potentially find them. This may be the first time that a social media website was used to reunite families with the lost photos of their relatives and ancestors. A woman named Abi Almandinger, who lives in Carthage, Missouri, wanted to do something to help the people who lived in Joplin, Missouri. Joplin was hit by a tornado on May 22, 2011. In many cases, people lost everything they … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Your Family Tree

During my genealogical research, I have accumulated quite a few old photos and heirlooms. Some I received from relatives, both near and far, and others I’ve had passed on to me specifically to include in my genealogy records. One elderly lady I met was so happy to give me some photos she had of my ancestors (who were also related to her in some manner) because she was afraid they would be thrown out after she died, since they didn’t have any meaning to her immediate family. I was honored to accept them. She passed away a few months ago. … Continue reading →

Old Letters and Your Family Tree

By now we have learned the importance of a family tree. We know that a family tree is more than a list of names. Now, I want to share some of the significance of keeping old letters in addition to other papers with your family tree. I have decided to make a box dedicated to all of my paperwork related to my family tree. It is an ongoing project that I work on whenever I have the chance. In this box I have added all of the old letters that I have inherited from family members. I think it is … Continue reading →