Lineagekeeper's Genealogy

Arizona is one of the genealogy enlightened states.  Genealogists love the Arizona Office of Vital Records because they have made the effort to put a wealth of digitized birth and…

Finding yet another genealogy resource when you least expect it is always a delight. Enter the Utah Index to Military Death Certificates, 1941-1953.   When I stopped looking back way back…

FamilySearch offers a wealth of online genealogy training courses that span from training for newbies to experienced “old-hands” in research. Let’s visit just a few titles on the main page…

World War II posters frequently emphasized Victory or home gardens to supply U.S. citizens with some of their food.  It is spring.  The economy looks like it is in for…

Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.  A Merry Company.

Does your genealogy society have a page on the FamiliySearch Wki?  If not, it should.  Not only does the wiki provide the hosting of the page, the page itself is…

Advertising campaigns have always been inventive.  Enter the 1930’s advertisement for Byrrh Wine.  Black cats always cause trouble in mythology, so obviously, one should be the cause of the collapse…

War.  It always seems to be war that creates a recorded history about otherwise obscure locations in the world.   It is true about the Balaklava region of the Ukraine in…

If you have ancestors that lived in or near Bristol, New Hampshire, then you want to read the “History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire, Vol II…

Sometimes you encounter a webpage that you absolutely have to bookmark.  The Cite Your Sources article on the FamilySearch Wiki is one of those pages. Recreational web browsers and genealogy…

Genealogists are always looking for something new.  They want an even better tool that will make their research more valuable.  FamilySearch may just have the next killer genealogy app safely…

Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.

With their tours completed and enough points to qualify for rotation back to the states, a group of G.I.’s express their delight in anticipation of leaving La Harve on 25…

If you are a FamilySearch Indexers, you may be making your work harder. Did you fail to read the “Known Issues” FamilySearch Wiki article associated with the project you are…

Mrs. Julia (Mary) Hansen was a widow. She was struggling to support her 9 year old daughter when the “purity squad” raided her home in Utah.  Even though she had…

Apparently, advertisers and tobacco companies in 1896 were crazy.  Imagine asking your wife to stop by the tobacconist to buy a plug of Battle Ax.  According to the 4 July…

Crazy people jumping out of perfectly good airplanes have always fascinated me.   Modern technology tends to keep them alive to repeat the process time after time inmost cases. However, historically,…

Browsing through the huge FamilySearch /LDS sites turned up a fascinating new page, titled “Getting Started with Family History”.  “Four Easy Steps to Help You Begin”. The page actually does…

Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.

One of the great things about having ancestors from early New England is that they are frequently chronicled in genealogy and historical books.  Some of the books basically quote each…