This
website is a work in progress.
I
started doing genealogy because I wanted to know what kind of lives my
ancestors lived. I’ve never been
interested in accumulating a whole bunch of names just for the sake of thinking
I have found a line that goes back to Eve!
Somehow I wanted to find something that would tell me more than that… I
guess I wanted to know them the way I knew the people I grew up with. I didn’t think about it that way but I guess
that’s it. So here is a webpage that is
part of a search for the real people behind all those names. I’m seeking documentation, newspaper
notices, and obituaries anything that gives a glimpse of more than age, sex,
location, occupation and dates of birth marriage and death.
On
these pages I’ll share my findings. If
you are researching these same people you are welcome to them. All I ask is that you give proper credit to
the researchers who found the original information. That means I hope you’ll cite not only the original source
whether it be a newspaper, census or a letter or picture from a collection of
someone, but also the person or organization who made that information
available to you. I’ll do my best to
make sure that everything on here gives proper credit to sources and I hope
that you’ll do the same.
You
may not always be able to see the original sources because I’m not providing
copies of other people’s work. Instead most
images and documents that aren’t in my possession will be linked to the
original source online. Some obvious
exceptions are the clippings from online versions of free access
newspapers. I don’t think it is really
fair to ask everyone who finds someone here to have to go searching through the
original newspaper to find a 2 line clipping buried on some unindexed page! If you take the time to follow the link back
to the original you may find more information that will be of use to you. I can’t guarantee that all of the links will
work all of the time. They were working
when I put the page up.
Happy
hunting!