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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 […]
MOSER BIBLIOGRAPHY
Posted on February 15, 2024 Leave a Comment
This is a living blog post: new sources will be added. This regards the series of blog posts on German Immigration and the MOSER family. Please feel free to email me with additions or corrections. Hotlinks are included as available. BOOKS Barber, Edwin Atlee; Tulip War: Pennsylvania- German Potters 1903 Basset, John Spencer; The Regulators […]
German Migration to America: Johan Martin MOSER 1693-c.1743 Part Two
Posted on January 8, 2024 4 Comments
If you haven’t read Part one you can read it here. In this chapter we will explore the beginnings of Martin MOSER’S family life and what led him and tens of thousands of others to leave Germany behind. In the year 1677 William Penn toured Germany where he spread the message that religious freedom could […]
Self Healing Concrete and Knowledge Lost
Posted on January 14, 2023 2 Comments
This blog post grows out of number of things. An article on Self Healing Concrete, a conversation with my 98 year old neighbor, Mary and another conversation with my friend Jean. How lost knowledge is such a remarkable, but common place event. So many secrets are waiting to be rediscovered. We have been here before. […]
Who Gets to Write History? Who Are We Keeping Out?
Posted on February 9, 2022 9 Comments
A bit of a kerfuffle over who gets to write history and ask why, along with a series of emails with an Oxford educated historian and a local political scandal has me thinking about the parameters genealogists are “supposed” to operate within when writing our family histories. People act as if “facts” are truth. Sadly […]
Location, Location Location: Changing Names and Jurisdictions & Finding Records
Posted on October 18, 2021 1 Comment
My recent trip back to Massachusetts underscored the SUPREME importance of understanding a Town’s history. It is not just the names that often changed, but their jurisdictions and sometimes their ACTUAL location. What do I mean by knowing a Town’s history. Specifically nothing will serve your genealogy research and your family history writing more than […]
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