December, 2007
The Greatest Genealogical Find Ever . . .
The GeneaBlogie staff is a bit under the weather today, this last day of 2007. Nonetheless, I’m as excited as a kid at Christmas (Christmas? It’s only 359 days away!). I’m awaiting the imminent delivery of The Greatest Genealogical Find Ever. What possibly could be The Greatest Genealogical Find Ever? Here’s the story: as long as I have been aware …
December 31, 2007 Monday at 7:03 pm
Update Your Address Books! We’re Moving!
GeneaBlogie is moving up the cyber-street! On January 1, 2008, we’ll be at blog.geneablogie.net. So please update your links, readers, etc. (The old address will still work for awhile, so you won’t miss anything!)
December 30, 2007 Sunday at 2:24 pm
Trying Again Pays Off Again: Updating "The French Negroes of Illinois"
Last year, I did a major series on the so-called “French Negroes of Illinois,” focusing on the Micheau family of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. In that series, I traced the origins of the French Negroes of Illinois from slaves brought from Haiti by Pierre Renault, who was seeking silver and gold. Also in that series, I recounted the story told …
December 27, 2007 Thursday at 12:54 am
Important Genealogical Tip: Try, Try Again!
An important tip in genealogical research is to re-plow ground you’ve already been over before. And if that’s not productive, do it again! Why? Because it works. Miriam at Ancestories had a Christmas Day surprise when she finally found some elusive in-laws for whom she had searched for years. In an idle moment, she tried again on-line and there they …
December 27, 2007 Thursday at 12:09 am
The Night Before Christmas
Craig reads a classic Christmas poem==>here. My favorite carol: press PLAY below. Merry Christmas to all from Craig at GeneaBlogie!
December 24, 2007 Monday at 7:55 pm
Noel Miscellany
Jasia has posted the 38th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. The topic is “The New Millenium.” I didn’t go to the Carnival this time because my experience of Y2K was rather boring, frankly. The theme for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: New Year’s Resolutions. As the year winds to a close in the next …
December 19, 2007 Wednesday at 10:00 pm
Where Were You At Census Time?
Tim Agazio started wondering whether his descendants would be able to find him in census records. And Chris had a Challenge in which a person had been unable to find certain relatives in the census records. So just where were you when the census was taken? The first census in my life was 1960. We lived in what was then …
December 16, 2007 Sunday at 7:45 pm
Christmas 1958
Craig, Baby Sister, and brother with Sankt Nikolaus inFrankfurt am Main
December 16, 2007 Sunday at 5:10 am
My Trilingual Christmases–UPDATE
Click here for a pretty good 1914 cylinder recording of Cantique de Noel, the French original of O Holy Night. Thanks to the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California at Santa Barbara. The performer is the Canadian tenor Albert Quesnel. (Listen to him hit that high note in the last …
December 16, 2007 Sunday at 4:01 am
My Trilingual Christmases
Geneablogger footnoteMaven has started a Christmas caroling meme. I’ve mentioned before that part of my childhood was spent in Germany. I went to a German school for part of that time and we had a German nanny. I was immersed in the culture and language at an early age. And Christmas in Germany became one of my favorite times and …
December 15, 2007 Saturday at 5:47 am
