Showing posts with label california death certificate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label california death certificate. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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Welcome. This is a work in progress about the family tree of my maternal grandparents. Rather than presenting information in a formal genealogy tree, I have chosen to focus on individuals about whom I know something more than just their dates of birth and death. Sometimes I even have pictures! Be warned that the presentation, rather than orderly, is scatter shot. Like life.
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Chasing My Ancestors
Simon Schama wrote, "Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."
Family historians can identify with those words. We will be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner. But that does not mean we will stop the pursuit.
Family historians can identify with those words. We will be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner. But that does not mean we will stop the pursuit.
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A cautionary note: During my adventures in family history research, I have realized that, say, my great great grandparent or other ancestor is not only mine and the immediate family members and cousins of whom I am aware, but also of many people whom I will never meet. That being said, welcome.
If you choose to use information from the postings from this blog in your family tree research, please reference my blog. Also, I urge you to read the books I have mentioned in my different postings. You might find something else in the books that I overlooked or that is of specific interest to you.
Also, the following sites have been truly helpful in my research: www.Ancestry.com, www.findagrave.com, www.worldvitalrecords.com, and www.footnote.com. The newspaper articles mentioned in my blog postings are from www.genealogybank.com, www.newspaperarchive.com, www.worldvitalrecords.com, and www.ancestry.com. Also, if available, join the local genealogical societies in the counties and states from which your ancestors hailed. These societies have items which have not been posted on the Internet. Many states and counties have wonderful websites devoted to family history from those locations.
The true joy in researching family history is the thrill of the hunt.
