Kimberly's Genealogy Blog July 2007 Archive

Gone but Not Forgotten
Last weekend I had the chance to take a walk through beautiful Manchester Cemetery in Wheeling, West Virginia. This cemetery is fairly old, with almost half of the graves dating ... Read More

Monday July 30, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

Are Your Genes Cursed?
If you've ever thought about starting a family medical history but haven't gotten around to it yet, then I'd suggest you read the poignant article "Cursed by Our Genes" by ... Read More

Monday July 30, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

Create Your Own Online Tombstone
Thanks to Dick Eastman, I learned about this funny little script that allows you to create an epitaph and plop it on an online tombstone to see how it looks. ... Read More

Monday July 30, 2007 | permalink | comments (3)

Reading Secretary Hand
The most popular handwriting style in Elizabethan Europe is a script commonly known as the Secretary Hand. This handwriting appears in official documents such as wills, deeds, and parish records, ... Read More

Monday July 23, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

Family Tree of J.K. Rowling
There is a Harry in her family tree... J.K. Rowling's great-grandfather's name is Frank "Harry" Rowling on his birth certificate. But while J.K. Rowling says that she chose the name ... Read More

Sunday July 22, 2007 | permalink | comments (0)

Save Your Genealogy Society - Become Involved!
I think all of us will agree that genealogical societies are facing a crisis right now as the lure of online genealogy, and the price tag that comes with it, ... Read More

Monday July 16, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

The Ancestors We Will Never Find
I'm supremely confident that all of my ancestors are out there somewhere just waiting to be discovered. They didn't jump off of a spaceship. They weren't born as a full-grown ... Read More

Monday July 16, 2007 | permalink | comments (31)

Family Tree Maker 2008 Beta
I've been taking the new Family Tree Maker 2008 beta software for a test drive and thought I'd share my thoughts. This is pretty much a complete re-write of FTM, ... Read More

Monday July 16, 2007 | permalink | comments (17)

Alt Codes for Entering Umlauts and Other Characters
From Spanish accents to German umlauts, there are a variety of special characters that we encounter among the surnames, place names, and other names in our family tree. In the ... Read More

Sunday July 15, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)

Learn to Read Old German Documents
Even genealogists with a good knowledge of German can have trouble reading old German documents due to the unusual nature of the old handwriting and printed fonts in widespread use ... Read More

Monday July 9, 2007 | permalink | comments (3)

Two Dead Presidents
On July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, two of America's founding fathers died. Former president Thomas Jefferson died at his Monticello estate ... Read More

Wednesday July 4, 2007 | permalink | comments (1)