Email…

Ruminating about preserving email…Scary to think what could happen with the click of a mouse. Saving to PDF seems like a valid solution…most of my emails are saved to my local machine which is backed up with Time Machine, but developing a real, solid plan is high on my priority list. 

This will sound silly…

…but, don’t forget to go to the library! Pull an old book off a shelf and break down that brick wall. I have been paging through a 120 year old book of biographies from two counties and have made several solid discoveries that I didn’t know I was looking for. I was actually looking at a completely different book for another project when I glanced around the same section of the library and found the book I’ve been using today. I wouldn’t have found it without being in that aisle. 

The internet is an amazing resource, but sometimes you can’t beat walking the aisles and browsing. Serendipity.

Did your ancestors own?

Did your ancestors own a radio in 1930?  A quick look at the Census will tell you.

Here’s how: 

Find your people in the census, then go to line 9, in that box will be a mark, in this case it is an “R”.  There you have it!

There weren’t very many in the little township I was just looking at.  Any other suggestions of how media effected the lives of our ancestors?

In Context

Spending my Sunday putting a family’s history in the context of the greater world. Often we can get tunnel vision when we focus only on dates and relationships and really not understand the entire story of a life or several lives. Today I’m dropping these very real individuals into the historical saga that was happening around them.  It’s kind of fun.

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