Background: It all started with Mary Theresa Schindler. She married Charles Mathias Sontag on the 10th of June 1879 in Chaska, Carver County Minnesota.1 Charles and Mary never had any children but I was still curious about Charles. I was able to track Charles and Mary through the various census records after they were married.2 …
Photographs from a football game in Tokyo. Genealogists often come across unidentified photographs. Most of the time these are photographs of unidentified people. There are a number of books and articles that have been written on how to identify someone in a photograph. A few of the techniques include studying the photograph for clothing styles, …
As a result of archiving Dad's military papers and artifacts, I decided to redo the scrapbooks I made back in 2004. The original books contained many of the artifacts and I felt they should be housed in the new family archive. I am doing this version in a digital format that will be printed both …
There is a saying in the military No Plan Survives First Contact. The saying certainly applied when I started to work with the initial plan. In my post Setting Up The Family Archives, I had formulated a general plan for my archive including my military papers and artifacts. As a refresher, this was the original plan. Series …
A couple of weeks ago I began to scan and organize my dad’s military papers. I have scanned over 600 documents and am still not finished. As in most projects, one thing led to another. Questions like how am I going to organize them? Dad had them roughly in folders by the type of …
Note: Most images can be clicked on to enlarge them. They will open in a new tab. I posted my blog post "Organizing Genealogy Documents With The Help of Zotero" in "The Organized Genealogist" private Facebook Group. One of the group's members Carolyn commented on the post. She was intrigued by Zotero but was hesitant …
There are many ways to organize your genealogy and, in most cases, your approach is going to evolve and change over time. Mine certainly has. Today I use three primary pieces of software, a relationship-based genealogy software application, Scrivener and Zotero. Relationship-Based Software Most genealogy software applications are relationship-based. In other words, people are added …
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Working on the second part of volume one of Mom's Letters. Since I only have one letter from our time in Alaska the second part will include stories that were told about living in Alaska and various photographs of life in Alaska. I haven't worked out the actual page order for the pages in the …
Here are the next two pages for volume one. Including the last page of the first letter. We were in Alaska for 4 years but only one of mom's Alaska letters were saved. For the second part of this book, my plan is to use other photographs taken from our time in Alaska adding stories …
I haven't had much opportunity to work on Mom's letters in a while. Just got my computer back from the shop. Here is the latest page for volume one of Moms Letters. Part OnePart TwoPart Four
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