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Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Monday, January 18, 2021

Amanuensis Monday: Samuel J. Denyer and the Santa Fe Expedition

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to transcr...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Mineral Wells Texas - What Were Morris & Mollie Blatt Doing There?

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Back in 1987, my paternal grandmother was interviewed, and she stated that her mother, Anna Blatt Feinstein, first arrived in the United Sta...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Amanuensis Monday: Melvin Van Every and Cotton in the El Paso Valley - 1917

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: A Protest Against Agitation Against Japanese Farmers - 1919

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Sepia Saturday 297: Washing Lines

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Sepia Saturday - A weekly meme providing a visual prompt for participants to share their own photographs. (I'm going to share some poet...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

Amanuensis Monday: On Beekeeping in Goliad County, and the Importance of the Source

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Ebenezer Denyer Registers to Vote

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Below is the Voter Registration of my second great grandfather, Ebenezer Denyer. (bottom line of cropped images below.) Transcription...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Second Annual GALPSGC: Texas, Our Texas

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Bill West at West in New England presents the Second Annual Great American Local Poem and Song Genealogy Challenge Find a poem by a local ...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Follow Friday: Texas State Library and Archives Commission

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If your research takes you through Texas, you may want to visit the Texas State Library and Archives Commission , particularly their County ...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Minnie Van Every and the Happyhammers

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Randy at Genea-Musings talks about his Forest Gump Method of Genealogy Research: Genealogy research is like a box of chocolates - you never...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Indexing Error in Ancestry's Texas Birth Index

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In Ancestry's database: Texas Birth Index 1903-1997 , there is a major indexing error worth noting, even though Ancestry does warn users...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Wordless Wednesday: Cactus Flower in San Marcos, Texas

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Cactus Flower Along Devil's Backbone Ranch Road #12 San Marcos , Hays County, Texas Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchi...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Wolfram|Alpha for Genealogists

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It's only been three months since I wrote a post on Wolfram|Alpha , but I received an email from them Thursday announcing their work in...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Amanuensis Monday: More Gleanings in Bee Culture

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Back in February , via a Google Bo...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Texas Death Records at Family Search Redux

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Two months ago I wrote about finding a few Texas death records at FamilySearch's new record search. In particular, Everett Van Every...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Texas Vital Records on Footnote

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Since I have a 3-day free trial, my goal was to find everything I could possibly find on Footnote , and then cancel my subscription before t...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Privacy in Texas

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Several discussions on legal and ethical issues lately. As a newcomer to the genealogical community, I don't know how common this is. ...