August, 2008
Can’t find a Louisiana Relative or Ancestor? Try Looking in California!
What?! Yes, you heard right. If you’re having difficulty locating a Louisiana relative or ancestor from the 20th century, perhaps you should try looking in California . . . well, at least in some of the California databases on Ancestry.com. During and after World War II, there was a huge movement of people from the South to California. They were …
August 15, 2008 Friday at 7:44 pm
Why I Blog: Reason No. (???)
A few days ago, a young man commented on a blog post I had written sometime last year. He noted that the man referred to in that post as my father’s cousin was the young man’s grandfather. I soon heard from the young man’s brother, followed in turn by their mother. We’ve had a lively email exchange of information; confirming …
August 15, 2008 Friday at 5:29 pm
My Favorite Photograph
This was supposed to have been a post for the 4th Edition of Smile for the Camera at Shades of the Departed, but I missed the deadline. (Somewhere along the line, about three weeks ago, perhaps, I slid behind schedule and have been running to catch up! We’ll see what that means for the Games!). In any event, I decided …
August 14, 2008 Thursday at 8:54 pm
GeneaBlogie Among “Best of the Best”
at Alltop. Our friend the footnoteMaven was among the first, if not the first, of the genea-bloggers to notice that the site Alltop.com has added a genealogy section. And her blogs were listed! fM closed her post about Alltop with an enticing “See anyone you know?” So we had to look and there was GeneaBlogie! Allltop describes itself as a …
August 12, 2008 Tuesday at 7:47 pm
Why Genealogists Make Mistakes
The new issue of the AARP magazine showed up the other day–the one with Sidney Poitier on the cover. It’s just been recently that I’ve been able to admit publicly that I do read that magazine as I embrace life as “older guy.” The magazine this month has an article entitled “Why Doctors Make Mistakes”, a very important topic for …
August 10, 2008 Sunday at 11:07 pm
The 2008 Summer GeneaBloggers Games
Some of the clever administrators at the GeneaBloggers Group on Facebook (Thomas, Miriam, Kathryn) have put together the 2008 Summer GeneaBloggers Games. Although I missed the Opening Ceremonies, I will be competing in every category. The Games end on August 25. Below are the categories and rules. Also below is my flag. It’s taken from the flag of Ghana, representing …
August 10, 2008 Sunday at 7:21 pm
My BFFs
With school starting in about a week and a half (what?!), it’s been busy around here. So I’m slow on several things. First thing is the BFF. I was tagged twice–by Elizabeth O’Neal and Janet Iles. I actually met Elizabeth at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in June. She writes the crisp and frequently wry Little Bytes of Life. …
August 8, 2008 Friday at 10:23 pm
Update: The Missouri Insurance Company
Over on our soon-to-be-vacated blogspot.com site, my Brayboy cousin Karen Burney had this to say in the comments: Craig, that is a great artifact. Sorry to be the “Devils Advocate” but thought I would share some thoughts on why these policies were so popular and seemed a good investment then and even now. First, as you point out, the primary …
August 8, 2008 Friday at 4:00 am
The Missouri Insurance Company
In the first half of the twentieth century, it was a common practice of many immigrant families and African-American families to purchase life insurance policies on their infant children. Indeed, as late as the 1990′s, a well respected baby food company was sponsoring such insurance policies. Why would someone purchase a life insurance policy on an infant? Isn’t the textbook …
August 6, 2008 Wednesday at 5:30 am
Feed for New Location
The feed for this new location can be found at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/geneablogie/Xtpu
August 5, 2008 Tuesday at 2:02 am
