Following up on the legend of the death of Moses Gould in 1816, I had some questions. Would a logger’s death have been so commonplace it wasn’t recorded in a
Category: methodology
Trying to tease Moses out of the shadows
My 4th great grandfather, Moses Gould died at age 40, reportedly while lumbering in the Maine woods. He left a wife, Anne Adams Gould, and 7 young children. My 3rd
Wikis Anyone? Why Not?
One thing about going to a library conference these days is that there is alot of technology under discussion. Wikis are probably not technology in the classic sense but I
Flickr for Genealogy
I’m at a library conference and suddenly – someone is talking about various archives that have uploaded their historic photos into Flickr. I never considered Flickr as a possible source
Anstoetter/Anstoeter – Is the spelling of a name an artifact of a family fight?
My husband (and my kids of course) is descended from one of two men named Anstoetter, who were probably brothers, who came to the US in about 1868 from the
Geni.com – an interesting way to collaborate
I’ve been playing around (in between rebuilding the website and restoring the house – looks like a theme there) with Geni.com which is basically a collaborative genealogical workspace. Not quite
The Thomas Asher who died in Texas – how does he relate to my Thomas?
According to the War of 1812 pension file of Thomas Asher, who died in TX in 1885, he was drafted in Anderson County, Tennessee, in October 1814 and was discharged
Updates and corrections to the Asher timeline
A big thank you to cousin Darrel who went over the Asher timeline with a fine toothed comb and discovered errors and helped with additions. Rather than do a second
An underutilized source – military service records
I’ve done so much research on the Whitman family of Greenbrier County, West Virginia that I suspect I could spout family trees in my sleep. But in all my years
Bad research habits
I recently had a phone call from a distant cousin. We are both descendants of Jesse Savage and Hannah Wills through different children. He had read my Savage family article