The stack of obituaries is now online at My Genealogy Project. I also updated the Site News. A full update of the trees and family group sheets is forthcoming.
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Obituaries ready for upload
Posted on 23 June 2009 by Rick
I finally got through that stack of obituaries on my desk. I also went though each of the files to correct spelling and to add relationship information. For those who were related but not ancestors, I added whatever ancestors they had in common with me. There are three sets of common ancestors for many of [...]
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Father’s Day
Posted on 21 June 2009 by Rick
Maybe it’s eFather’s Day. Both of my sons sent me Father’s Day wishes via Twitter. I’m not complaining, I’m glad they remembered. Thanks.
Adam later sent the following tweet: “I really appreciate the things you’ve taught about e.g. morality, ethics, good tastes in music, humor, sarcasm. List could go on and on. “
I guess I’ve [...]
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Laura (Ames) Warren Obituary
Posted on 20 June 2009 by Rick
Today I received the obituary I had requested for Laura E. (Ames) Warren from the Ventura County (California) Library. I was pleasantly surprised to have gotten a response so quickly.
I noticed that Iola was not listed among the surviving children. Did she die sometime between Harlie’s death in 1960 and Laura’s in 1977? I also [...]
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Webster-Pettit Connection
Posted on 16 June 2009 by Rick
As long as I was in the neighborhood, I paid a visit to the Genealogical Room at the Morley Library in Painesville. I would have loved to have been able to stay longer and do some serious research in their beautiful, well-laid out facility. But I had just one objective in mind on Monday morning [...]
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Visitng the Family Estate
Posted on 16 June 2009 by Rick
It was good get up to Footville for a couple of days. It’s a sanctuary, a place where I can get away from suburban life, enjoy some peace and quiet, find solitude and just relax, listening to the crickets and the tree frogs. Even the roar of the drag strip in the distance seems to [...]
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Genealogical Activity, 5 Jun 09
Posted on 5 June 2009 by Rick
While searching online for information on my 3rd great-grandfather, John F. Osmond, I found a family tree that included him as well as many of my Webster relations. I saw that he had posted a lot of photos, death certificates, and obituaries which helped me fill in a lot of gaps in my more recent [...]
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