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TRAVELING for GENEALOGY: Virtual & In Person
Posted on December 8, 2024 7 Comments
There are many types of travel and just as many of interest to Genealogists. For the purposes of this blog post I am concentrating on travel to the homeland of an ancestor or ancestors for the purpose of experiencing something of their time upon this earth. Remember our principal reason to do genealogy, besides the […]
NEWSPAPER RESOURCES FOR GENEALOGISTS
Posted on December 7, 2024 4 Comments
Note: this will also be posted as a static Page under the RESOURCES TAB to make it easy to find. If you haven’t availed yourself of Newspapers to fill in tidbits of you ancestors lives you could be in for a real treat. Everything from recitals to accidents to winning prizes in the County Fair. […]
Estate Planning for Family Historians & Genealogists
Posted on August 2, 2024 2 Comments
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Should all your work go into the circular file? None of us are immortal but the least we can do is create a plan for our research, books and heirlooms to go somewhere. No guarantees but the time to find a landing place for your legacy is now. I […]
“The Wild Inside”: Our Grizzly Ancestry
Posted on April 21, 2024 3 Comments
This like many stories is a web of what connects us to a past. A spark alights, a memory leads us to our own wild insides. We think we stand alone, but we are connected even to our extinct past. Man and beast we are the same, yet different. Our most innate drives and passions […]
Irish Genealogy Resources
Posted on March 2, 2024 3 Comments
This is a page of resources I have put together for my Genealogy Class. I hope they may be of interest to a broader audience as well. Some of these are pretty obscure so I hope that it expands your list of Irish resources. HINT: Finding Irish Origins for Immigrants In general there are two […]
OUR LEGACY: Leaving Breadcrumbs
Posted on February 20, 2024 3 Comments
In my genealogy class last week, I was asked, “why do you write“. My first answer was I write for myself. My second answer was I write for posterity. But since then I have been pondering this provocative question. Which really is a broader question? Why do we exist? What are we here for? What […]
Maps & Mapping Resources for Genealogists and Family Historians
Posted on February 19, 2024 3 Comments
If you are a regular Wheaton Wood blog post follower you will know I love maps. For my genealogy class I compiled some of my favorite Map resources below. In general I use out of copyright maps and those that are as close to the time frame as when my ancestors lived in a location […]
Write What You Know: Research What You Don’t & Beware of Artificial Intelligence Generated Answers.
Posted on February 15, 2024 5 Comments
If you are a follower you know I encourage you to turn your family trees into stories. But sometimes it is hard to know how to do that. Well you start with what you know about an ancestor or family. That is where tools like Family Group Sheets, Individual Research Checklists and Timelines come in […]
German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part One
Posted on January 25, 2024 Leave a Comment
The Lure of Cheap Land Notices like the one below appeared in Pennsylvania newspapers. One might ask why did the MOSER’s move from Pennsylvania to North Carolina? “Lands are so very cheap,” one Carolina resident wrote, “that . . . Six Hundred and Forty Acres . . . will cost three or four pounds Sterling […]
THE MOSERS IN BAVARIA: Wißenkirchberg, Hetzweiler, Kloster Sulz, Altengrueth
Posted on January 18, 2024 4 Comments
If you haven’t read the previous blog post BAVARIAN Hans MOSER c1623-1696 was from Austria, not Switzerland you should read it first. When last we met Hans MOSER he was part of a mass migration of “exulanten” or exiles having been expelled from Catholic Austria and resettling in a Lutheran part of Mittlfranken or Middle […]
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