Documents
Good Schools A Staple of Ancestors’ Lives
This was produced for the 17th edition of “Smile for the Camera” I really don’t have much in the way of photographs on my ancestors’ school days. I have in the past posted school census records from the very early twentieth century in Milam County, Texas, where my gg-grandmother and her descendants lived. But I know virtually nothing about my …
September 10, 2009 Thursday at 3:05 pm
Dealing With Thousands of Photographs, etc.–Step 1
We decided as a first step to “sample” one of the boxes. There we found hundreds of photos, a number of documents, vital records (including some for living family members!), and a lot of ephemera. Here’s a partial inventory of stuff in that first box: Photographs, amounting to several hundred. Two family tree (descendancy) charts, filled out to the sixth …
July 29, 2008 Tuesday at 3:05 am
