Month: December 2015

Bleeding Eyeballs at the Bottom of Trautvetter’s Stairs

Newspapers will provide information never mentioned in a death certificate. Of course that doesn’t mean the information is correct, only that it was printed. On Wednesday, 12 December 1917, John M. Trautvetter fell down the stairs of his home. According to the Quincy Daily Herald, he either slipped or had a stroke and in fall broke […]

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Troutfetter Money

Members of the far-flung Trautvetter/Troutfetter family have been known to make many things. Coins are one of those things that are on that list. I discovered the “Troutfetter coins” on Ebay a few years ago while hoping to find something on the elusive Philip Troutfetter. Instead of a picture of Philip I found a coin from […]

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Homemade Images

Publishing an image that one did not create can result in a potential copyright problem. The creator of an image–even a photograph on FindAGrave–has copyright to that image unless they’ve put the image in the public domain. It does not matter if the photograph violates the principles of composition, is blurry, or is so flooded by […]

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Webinars on Writing Proof, Making Charts, Archive.org, & Females

We are excited to offer four webinars this week. These sessions will be recorded for download after the fact if you cannot attend the sessions live. Wednesday, 16 December 2015, 12 noon central “Writing Proof Summaries and Making Your Case” This presentation will discuss an overview of organizing your information in a coherent way so […]

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Meyers Orts

Ancestry.com has Meyers Geographical and Commercial Gazetteer of the German Empireavailable online as color scans of an original copy of the book (as a free item). The scans are nice to use and very readable. A while back I recorded a presentation on using the Meyers Orts gazetteer. It’s aimed at those who have been hesitant to use this […]

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Preserving Past You

At long last we’ve released my “Preserving Past You” presentation. It is an overview of prepping for preserving your genealogical material past your lifespan. It’s not a technical presentation, but focuses on things to think about, getting started, actually doing something, thinking about what is practical to preserve, and planning as much as possible Don’t put […]

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My Blogs

I host several blogs–all have separate email lists and need to be subscribe to separately. Each has a subscription link on the top portion of each page. The blogs are: Genealogy Tip of the Day-one tip every day, rain or shine. Search Tip of the Day–one tip as they come across my path. We post […]

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