Tag: France
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My Family History Month 2013 To-Do List
Here’s a rainy day project idea. Peruse the surnames of your direct line ancestors and jot down a question or two you’d like answered for each name on your list. My list is below: Françoise ADAM (my French 6th great-grandmother): when/where was she born? when/where did she marry Jean Schmitt? Magnus…
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Reasons to Research
How many names are in your tree? How far back have you gone? If you’ve ever told anybody that you are climbing your family tree, chances are you’ve heard these questions more than once. The answer I’d like to give? Ugh. Why? Because I’m not a collector of names and…
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September Anniversaries
Ah, wedded bliss. Not always the case in my family tree: My great-grandmother divorced her first husband and gave away their three children. A few years later Esther Ingeborg CLARIN married Charles Fredrick OTTO in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. I located their 10 Sept 1918 marriage certificate on familysearch.org where Esther’s name…
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August Birthdays
Happy August birthday to my incredibly wonderful husband and to our beautiful granddaughter, to my sister, my paternal grandfather, my uncle Bob, my cousin Bill, my grand-uncle Bud, and my first cousin once removed Faith. Birthdays among my (possibly) German Clarkes: A second great grand-aunt Zora E CLARKE was born in…
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Favorite Web Sites; The French Genealogy Blog
One of my favorite ethnicity-specific web sites is The French Genealogy Blog at http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/ The author is a transplant to France with no French roots of her own. Her children are French. She sprinkles a delightful outsider-yet-insider point of view over all of her posts. A professional genealogist, Anne generously shares…
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