Pucker Up
Posted by David | Filed under obituary
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: An obituary gives a laugh and leaves a mystery.
From NewsBank:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - May 24, 2009
Deceased Name: Witherow, G.W. Aviator
Witherow, G.W. Aviator, Artist, Brother, Cousin, Uncle and Friend. He spoke frequently of one true love, and the family and friends he missed for the past 25 years. [...]
The Upside of Being Sick
Posted by David | Filed under cemetery, genealogy, history
Time to think. Once the headache subsides, the amount of idle time to think is probably the best thing about being sick. And at the forefront of those thoughts is, of course, genealogy. Random things that popped into my head:
Chris Dunham’s 1940 Census Countdown. We still have 3+ years until the next federal population census [...]
Top Ten Worst Lines From Obituaries
Posted by David | Filed under genealogy
The Genealogue: Top Ten Worst Lines From Obituaries.
Genealogy MVPs
Posted by David | Filed under genealogy
The mailing list for Osage County, Missouri, hasn’t ever had a lot of activity. It some respects that’s a good thing. On the other hand, there’s less chance of finding posts of interest from other readers. All of this changed in December of 2008, when Mary S. started posting transcriptions of obituaries. You can see [...]
1904 World’s Fair
Posted by David | Filed under history
The Missouri History Museum has been posting photos from their collection to Flickr and a few of the images caught my eye. I guess it’s worth mentioning that when you talk to many older St. Louisans about the city’s (or region’s) history the 1904 World’s Fair is bound to come up as a major event. [...]
Hot or Not
Posted by David | Filed under genealogy
Have you ever seen or heard of the “hot or not” type sites?
I propose a voting system be attached to the Family Tree section of Ancestry or WorldConnect at RootsWeb. I’d give a tree I saw the other night a 2 out of 10 for going completely off the tracks when it came to a [...]
Have You Ever…?
Posted by David | Filed under genealogy
A few years ago I was stuck on an ancestral couple. They were German immigrants. To be specific, they were both born in Baden according to census records. None of the records I found suggested which towns they were from.
There was an entry in the IGI that looked promising, but I tended to be a [...]
New Headstone for Harriet SCOTT (updated)
Posted by David | Filed under cemetery, news
St. Louis Post-Disptach: Harriet Scott gets final resting place — 133 years after death. (images)
