Tag Archives: family tree research
Tech Tuesday – To Share Or Not To Share
In researching your family tree, most people will come to a point where geographic location or a lack of digitized resources available online has your research at a standstill. To make a sweeping generalization, for the most part, our families rarely stayed in one place their whole lives and the chances that we, as family tree researchers, now live in those towns is slim. We live all over the world and do most of our research utilizing resources available online. The digitization [...]
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Maritime Monday – Castle Garden
Over the holidays, my husband I took a trip to New York City on vacation. We saw so many things while we were there but the one thing I was most excited to see was Castle Garden. All of my ancestors came through there and yet I know nothing about it. All you ever hear about is Ellis Island but between 1855 and 1892, over eight million people immigrated through Castle Garden. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google [...]
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Kautz Family Tree – Part II – Christian L. Kautz
As I mentioned in my article, A Wealth of Knowledge and Information, today I am focusing on my Kautz side of the family tree. Christian L. Kautz is my great-great grandfather. He was born in November of 1855 on the Kautz Family Farm in Dupage County to parents, John Jacob Kautz and Saloma Hansel. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
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Treasure Chest Thursday – A Wealth of Knowledge and Photographs
I first began researching my family tree after the death of my grandfather. I had always been interested in the family stories and information. My passion for history encouraged this. However, I hadn’t really focused on the evidence and background side of my family stories until my grandfather was gone. See my article, The Family Story Teller for more on this. Starting out on this side of the family tree would have been an almost impossible task if I hadn’t [...]
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Matrilineal Monday – The Family Line With All The Mothers
I have recently spent a great deal of time researching a family line in which there is a peculiar lack of paternal lines present. Generation after generation, I found information on the mothers’ side of the family tree and nothing on the fathers. It has been quite frustrating! On the one generation in which I actually did find the father’s information, it is the mother’s information that is missing and the one that I am most interested in tracing down. [...]
