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Today (20 January 2015) is the last day of our old webinar prices. Prices are now hover around $8 a presentation, but will be raised to $20 each after the 20th. Visit our webinar page to order your download or for more information. Downloads don’t expire–there is no expiration. Orders must be placed by the […]
[note: This post originally appeared on our old blog site on 29 August 2013 and is being reprinted.] Genealogy is not a mad rush towards Charlemagne. It is a slow path, filled with frontier brush, Southern sweat, and New England winters. Instead of leading to castles and mansions, that path often leads to one-room cabins, coal […]
In “Sourcing Probate Materials From Ancestry.com,” I asked for comments on the citation I constructed. A correspondent very graciously contacted me to ask if there had been a change in the rule about commas not being used before parenthesis. Before anyone overreacts to my being contacted by someone over an extra comma, be reminded of the […]
Thanks to my Ebay purchase, my coin from Kansas arrived. I’m not going to be spending them anytime soon and they certainly fit in any vending machines. The coin was part of an apparent marketing promotion for the Boerner & Troutfetter store in Colby, Kansas. The store was in operation for part of the first half […]
I’ve been using Ancestry.com’s “probate database” (my title, not theirs) again and my recent experience brought to mind an additional frustration with Ancestry.com: Update announcements that don’t tell what’s been updated. Updates that are not announced at all. I guess I’m simply never happy. I searched the database extensively when it was first released, particularly for quite […]
Petitions to administrate estates can tell us many things. Those things usually focus on the fact that someone died, who their heirs were, and that they had an estate worth probating. Then there are times when petitions tell us items that are unexpected. The petition of Herman U. Behrens to administrate the estate of Ricka […]
I’m not really certain that I’m happy with it, but I’ve settled on a working citation for probate materials from Ancestry.com collection. My concern was that I needed to indicate the: original creator of the material the site where the records were accessed Because Ancestry.com has so much material and so many databases, I used the title of […]
It has been a while since I have actively used materials on Fold3.com. Since that time, they have slightly changed their image download process. Previously one could download all or part of an image to a folder of their own choosing and was prompted for that location during the “save” process. That’s not true any […]
I’ve kept my webinar prices low since their inception several years ago, but various fees associated with hosting and distributing the presentations have forced me to raise the prices. Effective 20 January 2016, the price of individual webinars will be $20 each at a minimum. Prices for most presentations now are mostly in the $8 […]
