Google Books

Have you ever been a thousand miles away from the book you would like to read? I have, and know that it can be a pain, especially when it's in a genealogy library that doesnt ship their books, or have the staff to make copies of articles for you.

Google books is currently uploading as many books as they can for free. Click on the word Google, and that will get you to where you need to be. Try searching for a relative here and see what you come up with, you can try just a name, but if its a common name such as Thomas Hastings, you can add a birth date, and wonderful things might come up for you. They offer a wide variety of choices for people to look up resources...

Took a Break

I have had so much on my plate, and none of it really worth re-chewing over.. I am in school and that has my attention almost as much as my family does. We just moved into our new house, and getting everything set up and decided what doesn't need to be in the house. I have put my genealogy files away and some in storage. Its nice to have the extra room, and spread out.. I hope that all is well with everyone out there, I just love moving, cause the stuff you forgot you had, and then find, can go to donation, or clothes that are so old, they can actually come back in style at any moment and make it into a teenagers wardrobe is fun... I'm ready to get back to studying the dead people I find so fascinating.. life is one big melting pot of people.. I doubt we will ever uncover all the mysteries, but it sure is nice looking for the.

Irregular Marriage

If you find this term in your Genealogy it means this...

In Isolated frontier areas couples were not always able to travel to a church or preacher or legal recorder when they wanted to marry so they would publicly state their intentions and set up housekeeping together and then when the first itinerant minister came through, he would marry them.

This term was accepted by church elders, in Scotland and here in the U.S.A. in the earlier days. The couple was not thought of as promiscuous, it was just something that they did. The children under law were never thought as illegitimate, and thus, the church didn't either.

So in some states now, they call it common law marriage, or even the new modern term, Domestic Partner...

Correct Last Names....

My own last name is a huge long German name... and let me tell you, we are a unique bunch, but the problem I am having now is, when my Great Great Grandfather and his family immigrated to this country in 1881, after living in NYC for a short stay, they moved to Illinois. Upon doing research in the community that they lived in, I discovered that there were several other families living there with the same last name but with a different spelling.. my version is ae, another is ea, and then the third, a. And the ones with the A are the ones who spelled it this way when they were living in Germany, but my GGGrandfather changed his name to ae, and a cousin of his switched it to ea.

It has become confusing at times to tie it all together, but I am not quitting, just taking my time to read thru the names, and make out a family group sheet and work on connecting the families. They separated upon leaving Illinois via North Dakota then to Washington state. The cousins, left Illinois for N.D. as well, but then to California and Chicago.

So when you are doing your research, make sure you check with various spellings.. there could be more family than you know..

Snap Fish!!!

I am in love with snapfish, I just cant say it enough.. By the time I take my photos, and upload them to snapfish, pay a small amount, nothing compared to Target, or even costco.. and put my order thru, I have my photos back in my hand and ready to scrapbook. They have some wonderful projects as well, and I am getting ready to start my Christmas gift list and some of them will be through Snapfish.

On average before snapfish I paid .30 cents for a photo, usually because I didnt want to have to make two trips to the store, one to put in my order and two, to pick them up. Usually I would pay the extra money and do instant photos.

Now with snapfish, holy cow, I just load them up, select the ones I want printed, pay, poof, within like 4 days I have my photos. And they are delivered to my mailbox. We are a one car family, so this is totally convenient for us.

Thank you snapfish, I know there are other competitors out there, but none with the prices like snapfish, but more importantly, the extra projects. Thank you!!!

Genealogy Groups..

Starting a Genealogy group is something that is very common, and also very helpful. The people in your group can be friends or they can be people you have met at school while taking a class, or while working.

My girlfriends and I have started a group and sunday is our first get together. I have all the information that I want to take along with me.

A group setting can be so much fun, but also informative. Usually there is someone in the group that has far more insight into a certain area. Then there is a newbie, but has ideas of their own. Everyone brings something to the table, and then more information can be collected by just a few ideas from the table.

Civilian Personnel Records Center

Civilian Personnel Records Center

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