July 8th, 2007
Point Arena Lighthouse
Drew Smith of Tampa, Florida, correctly identified the photographs in Is this Your Street? as the Point Arena Lighthouse in California. (There’s no prize associated with this, Drew, but our heartiest congratulations on a job well done!). The GeneaBlogie research staff spent the Fourth of July holiday at Point Arena. The lighthouse, which at 115 feet is the tallest lighthouse …
July 8, 2007 Sunday at 8:47 pm
Mom’s Diamond Jubilee
Mom & Dad, 2003 This week, my mother will celebrate her 75th birthday. Seems like just yesterday we were marking her mother’s 75th birthday. That was 1977 and my mother then was younger (by almost a decade) than I am now. How does that happen? Tick, tock! Tick, tock! Mom was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her father, Eddie Gines, …
July 8, 2007 Sunday at 8:05 pm
Missouri Death Certificate Project Now Includes 1934
Just 1935 through 1944 remain to be added. Check it out at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/
July 8, 2007 Sunday at 5:26 am
History Detectives on PBS
If you’ve not seen History Detectives on PBS, you’ve been depriving yourself of a real treat. For five seasons now, the show has explored historical mysteries, explaing, confirming, discovering and debunking. About 75% of the matters investigated are things submitted by viewers. This Monday, July 9, 2007, the show tracks down the identity of a man in a photograph of …
July 8, 2007 Sunday at 2:21 am
Is This Your Street?
Imagine living on a street with just three other houses occupied by your family and friends (some of you do, no doubt) and the rest of the world miles away! To the north (behind the houses pictured here), is a huge expanse of land conserved in perpetuity. To the south and west, well, let’s just wait on that for a …
July 8, 2007 Sunday at 1:30 am
We’re Back!
After a longer-than-usual break for the Fourth of July, we’re back, with a lot of things to cover before next week when we begin our special project, if the technology is willing!
July 8, 2007 Sunday at 1:27 am
