My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun !! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another wonderful challenge for us this weekend: Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music!), is to: 1)  Jacqi Stevens recently suggested, in her blog post "The Networks of Life," the question "How did you get started in researching your genealogy?" 2)  This week, let's tell our "getting started in genealogy research" story. 3)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a comment on this blog post to lead us to your answers. I have written about the origins of my genealogy research. My friend, Susan, took me to Sutro Library in San Francisco so I could see what all this genealogy research fuss was. She was my children’s babysitter when they were young and every winter I would have to find a substitute ...

It's Wednesday and we are over halfway through our week. I'm enjoying my class in Advanced Southern Research. Our instructors have given us great resources that will help add to knowing much more about our ancestors beyond the vital and census records. Today at the Family History Library after class, I searched through some records of the Shane Manuscripts about the Chillicothe Presbytery. I was hoping to see some of my husband's ancestors' names Bishop, Shotts, and Gorrell, but these records didn't seem to cover the area in Ross County where they might have attended church. I spent time looking at some Jefferson County, Kentucky and Louisville records for my husband's Wollenweber line. I did find a few court records, one that was available only on microfilm. I did not find everything, and might have to write to the court clerk in Louisville. Today I also want to highlight some of the friends I have photographed this week. Our Certification Peer Group ...