One of my favorite local sources for genealogy information is the former black-owned and operated newspaper, The Nashville Globe. It was founded in 1906 and ran until 1960. Over the past several years I’ve extracted data from the paper and posted it on my blog, Black Nashville. Soon after starting that blog, I learned that […]
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After learning yesterday that the Nashville Metropolitan Archives had a strong yearbook collection, I decided to spend my afternoon there today. I wrote to the email reference of the Archives last night and received a response that they had a print listing of the yearbooks they have available, so I requested this list upon my
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The genealogy vacation extravaganza continues! Today I spent my time at the Nashville Public Library in their Nashville Room. I came to realized I’d seriously underappreciated the resources in the Nashville Room for I learned today much more about their holdings. As with yesterday, everything I gathered today will eventually go to the TNGenWeb &
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Today was the start of my 2 week vacation and you know how I spent it? Like any true genealogist – in the library :-). I visited the Tennessee State Library & Archives to gather information to share on the TNGenWeb & NCGenWeb sites in which I participate/ccordinate. I also pulled a couple of obituaries
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Earlier this week as I was reading Randy’s “Best of the Genealogy Blogs,” I checked out Amy of WeTree’s post on getting kids into the genealogy fix. In her post, Amy shares some wonderful suggestions for how to get kids involved with your genealogy efforts and shares some interesting experiences. Bribes of course are one
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For the past several months, I’d noticed that all the boards on Ancestry.com offered RSS feeds, but I have just recently started using them. It is way cool! So far, I have subscribed to about 10 feeds for various counties and surnames and I am finding it to be a very convenient way to keep
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Even though the people involved in this post are more appropriate for my Black Nashville blog, I’m deciding to post it here because this project has been a highly complex task for me for which I am really having to use my research & analytical skills. I have previously posted a little bit of the
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Very near to where I live right now is an old house with a historic marker out front. Next door is an old cemetery with some beautiful tombstones. I’ve been driving by this house for months, always curious what the marker says and who is in the cemetery. So, yesterday, Kalonji and I finally stopped.
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I am apparently late to the game, having just discovered a feature at Ancestry.com that has been available for almost two months now! But, I just discovered their Family Beta view. This is exactly the kind of enhancement I’ve been looking for them to add! One of my biggest frustrations when working with trees on
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This must really be the week of the Merrys because I had another great find today! I received a notice in my email today that the Nashville Public Library posted an online index to a listing of more than 19,000 names of people buried in the Old Nashville Cemetery. The listings are drawn from a
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