Burton family researcher Bill Johnson has generously shared a number of photographs from his collection, featuring the family of Dr. John Clement Burton and his wife, Dora Ellen Miller. Dr. John was a physician and pharmacist in Oklahoma Indian Territory. His family owned a drug store in Stroud, Lincoln County, OK, for a number of [...]
Newly discovered: Quite a few back issues of The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Newspaper, have been archived at the Google News Archive, and you can search them (for free!) here: http://news.google.com. Thanks to this source, a number of updates and new connections have been made regarding the family of Ira Ellsworth Morrill, and Effie Estella Pearce. Only [...]
Recent updates include: the descendants of Ezra McKinstry, the family of Anderson and Elizabeth (Dipboye) Johnson, and the family of William and Delia Amanda (Pearce) McCain. New data regarding the McCain family of Nodaway, Iowa, comes from The Adams County, Iowa Newspaper Archive, which can be searched for free.
Over the years, I’ve made a few good acquisitions from eBay to enhance the genealogy research – I’ve also been fleeced there. But with a little healthy skepticism, and a great deal of patience, eBay is a resource that should not be overlooked. For example, I picked up Huffington Family History Volumes 1 and 2 [...]
In the past year, Google Book Search has added – among many other useful items – a number of old legal digests and court reporting publications. These old volumes summarize court decisions going back to the early 1800s, and can provide genealogical data with an interesting twist . Unlike the conspicuously benign biographies you find [...]
Genealogical researchers who have not yet visited the new FamilySearch Record Search Pilot Site should check this one out! This site has barely started, it’s more or less a beta at the moment, and the collection offerings you’ll find there currently are somewhat limited, but growing. Even so, I found an abundance of new primary [...]
