I really miss my weekly email passing on the RootsWeb Review newsletter. It is now a monthly newsletter. It is always full of research tips, contributed stories, and a bit of humor. Now I can't even get the monthly newsletter to come via email for some reason. So I have to go visit it online to get my "fix."
The May 14 issue has a nice collection of articles, including:
* Researching at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) by Mary Harrell-Sesniak.
* Finding Your SMITHs (and Other Ancestors with Common Surnames) by Joan Young
* Don't Give Up Hope by David T. Johnston
* Three Sisters Reunited by Karen Gilbert
* Using a Divining Rod to Locate Unmarked Graves by Henry C. Wiggin
In the humor section, there are these entries:
* "While reading a local obituary, I noticed the gentleman who died was a driving instructor. His name was Rex A. Lott." - thanks to Joy; Oregon
* "I found this interesting name in a census record years ago: Lovely Hooker." - thanks to Nancy
* "While looking for an entry in our phonebook years ago, I stumbled upon the name "Gloomy Jones." My mother-in-law was in a nursing home here for several years and Gloomy was also a resident there, so I got to meet him. He died several years ago.
"When I showed a coworker Gloomy's name in the phonebook, he turned to the entry for an unusual name he had seen on a mailbox: Turley Curd. The name is no longer in our phonebook and we could not find it in a search of white pages nationwide, so I assume that he is also deceased." -- thanks to Bill
[The above was previously published in RootsWeb Review: 14 May 2008, Vol. 11, No. 15.]
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Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2021.
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