Question about Tintype Photos
There’s some old photos in the family bible that are tintype. Does anyone know if you can scan tintype photos without damaging them and in turn how do you take care of tintype photos?
Awkward Family Photos 
I thought this would be a fun site for people’s amusement. :-)
Last Christmas my brother gave me the book of ‘Awkward Family Photos’. I instantly knew why he gave this to me since we had our share of awkward family photos.
I thought this website was semi relevant for family research. Have any of you found an awkward family photo in your search or remember being in one?
What does that say? Help with causes of death!
So far I have found two death certificates from the early 1900s for my family and with both cases I couldn’t read the causes of death. I had to enlist in the services of my fiancé and Google for help. But today my fiancé helped me find this website when we were looking for a possible match for the cause of death for one of my relatives. With this website’s help with found a definitive answer. Totally recommend it. I hope this helps someone!
P.S. The causes of death that had me perplexed were double lobar pneumonia and senile debility.
P.P.S. If you’re confused as to where the link is… click the title of this entry and it should redirect you to the site I am talking about.
I wanted to thank genilinks for their help with my previous post. My issue has been resolved. :-) I wanted to show off the video they gave me to help me. I’m so happy!
ARGH!!!
Right now I am having a problem with the site I use for my family tree (geni). I found out that two of my relatives married the same woman (I know, fantastic, right? Tudor England is calling) and I previous did not know this. I only have her married to one of the males in the family. But I need to connect her husband’s brother and rework some stuff (like who’s kids were whose). But… it’s not letting me connect them together. I can add a whole new person but than I have a completey new profile which isn’t what I want. And if I deleted a profile and started again, I’m sure I’d just be back at square one since they don’t want to connect in the first place. :-( Not sure what to do. Any help?
Good news, bad news and a funny story.
Good news:
My cousin and his wife are pregnant again. So far, they only have one child that was born several years ago. They tried for another baby a couple years ago but she lost it early on. But this time they waited a bit longer to tell people she was pregnant. So I am hoping she will not lose this one. But here is the awesome news… they are having twins! Twins! We’ve never had twins in our family! This is amazing!
Bad news:
This same cousin of mine inherited the family homestead when my grandfather died. He didn’t do much with it. The house was over 100 years old (it had wooden pegs instead of nails to hold it together in some places) and would take a lot of money to fix up. So the old home just sat there. And of course… the homeless, drifters came to stay there illegally… people stole things. So apparently… a few months ago, my cousin bulldozed it. My mother didn’t even know about it until they drove by and it was gone. Of course, my mom didn’t tell me until today. She said it was too painful for her to say. I’m ultimately pissed at my cousin for bulldozing the family home, pissed at my cousin for never fixing up the home in the first place, pissed at my mother for keeping this from me for so long, upset that my grandparents’ home is completely gone, but also understanding why my cousin did what he did and understanding why my mother kept it from me. Below a picture I took of the house probably summer 2006. This is from the side of course, but it’s the best picture I have of a full view of the house.
Funny story:
My mom came by today and helped a little on my research. She included a funny story about her Aunt C. My mother had previously told that Aunt C was eccentric. My mother remembers one time when she was a little girl being at Aunt C’s house and Aunt C served them… are you ready for it? Raisin Pie! My mother said “Can you imagine? Raisin pie? It was disgusting!”
Consider Name Variations For Elusive Ancestors
Great tip. Misspellings are very common in historical research.
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Census Answers for Women.. May I Lol Now?
I’m looking through past census and the ‘Occupation’ question for women has struck a cord with me. Just to let you know, I am not naive, I know what women’s struggles were.
For example in a 1920 census, a woman’s occupation is listed as… *drumroll* ‘None’. In a 1900 census the answer for occupation for the wife of the house is not even answered. I found one yesterday that listed the woman’s occupation as ‘keeping house’.
I was curious if any of you have encounted similar things and what you think?
WhatWasThere: See How Cities and Towns Looked In The Past
One web site should interest any genealogist or historian. WhatWasThere.com has a simple purpose: provide a platform where anyone can easily upload a photograph with two straightforward tags to provide context: Location and Year. If enough people upload enough photographs in enough places, together we will weave together a photographic history of the world.
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