Caddo Parish
The Round-About Way Around Collaterals to Your Brick Wall
Sometimes when you run up against a brick wall, you may have to go a long way in a parallel or perpendicular path to get around the brick wall. True in physics, true in life, true in genealogy. In illustration of that point, we’ve been trying for a long time to get past the brick wall represented by my great-grandfather, …
May 20, 2009 Wednesday at 7:26 am
Louisiana Public Records Online Access: Good and Ugly
I’ve written favorably about the vital records index at the Louisiana State Archives. It’s easy to use to look up information and it’s set up to make ordering certified copies by snail mail easy. Unlike Texas, Louisiana does not have an on-line ordering capability run by the state. But since they make everything else so easy, I barely noticed. Now …
May 1, 2009 Friday at 1:58 pm
The UPS Man Cometh
Finally! Back in January, I ordered from Amzaon.com the book, Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, originally published in 1890 by Southern Publishing Co. For several months, I kept getting notices from Amazon that shipping would delayed and they would give a date range during which it would ship. All truned out to wrong until the last notice, which …
April 28, 2009 Tuesday at 8:07 pm
The Mailman Cometh
“Was there anything in the mail today?” I ask. “Yeah, a lot of stuff. But nothing really exciting,” she replies. “It’s there on the table.” I look there on the table, and wade through the usual bills, sales flyers, charitable solicitations, junk mail disguised as first class mail, until I finally come to a big brown envelope marked “Louisiana Secretary …
April 25, 2009 Saturday at 8:06 pm
Why I Blog–Reason No. 1 and Reason No. 776,002
Several weeks ago, in a post called Happy Dance Days are Here Again, I posted some photographs. The photos were of Frank Gines and his wife Willie V. Cole Gines, and their children. Frank Gines (1883-1946) was a son of Richard William Gines (1860-?) and Sylvia LeJay Gines (1863-1940). One of Frank’s younger brothers was my grandfather, William Edward Gines …
March 25, 2009 Wednesday at 7:42 pm
Names, Places & Most Wanted Faces
I started this with a note on Facebook and it was suggested that it would make a good meme for bloggers. The idea is to publicize your surnames and locales to see if anyone elseknows something about them. For me on Facebook, I got several research-helpful replies. So how much better to take it to a wider audience. List the …
February 26, 2009 Thursday at 8:29 pm
Back to Some Hard Genealogy . . .
Seems it’s been a while since we did any hard genealogy here. The best way to handle that is simply to just jump into it. Our subject today is one of my most resistant brickwalls. I’m going to describe my research and solicit ideas about how to proceed. So as they used to say on that early 1960s game show, …
January 25, 2009 Sunday at 11:25 am
2009: Day 3
Is the honeymoon with the new year over already? I’m betting that by Monday morning, that’s what of us will be thinking! But I’ve had a good first three days! On the one hand, I missed the Carnival, which broke one of my resolutions, but it was unavoidable. Plagued by connectivity problems all week (which are now solved), I was …
January 3, 2009 Saturday at 9:53 pm
To Tell the Genealogical Truth
Some Lessons about Census Records Contestant #1: My name is Julia McDavid. I was born in the nineteenth century and had a daughter named Helen. Can you find me in the 1880 or 1900 census? Contestant #2: My name is Julia McDavid. I was born in the nineteenth century and had a daughter named Helen. Can you find me in …
January 6, 2008 Sunday at 4:17 am
