Mission Statement
ShoeString Genealogy provides Family Historians with information about how to research their ancestors both on the Internet and in libraries and other repositories. Besides how, we will show you where—locations for free and inexpensive information and the relative value of each.
Weekly Chat Calendar
Currently, we do four GENTREK chats each week; Jayne McCormick also does two American Civil War chats. We publish other chats and activities here, too.
Tip o' the Dae
Genealogy techniques that can make your researches easier and/or more efficient. Computer and Internet tips that you'll also find useful.
Tip o' the Dae
The Source Online
In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles, links to which are found below:
Third Edition Table of Contents- The Foundations of Family History Research
- Computers and Technology
- General References and Guides
- Business, Institution, and Organization Records
- Census Records
- Church Records
- Court Records
- Directories
- Immigration Records
- Land Records
- Military Records
- Newspapers
- Vital Records
- African American Research
- Colonial English Research
- Colonial Spanish Borderland Research
- Hispanic Research
- Jewish American Research
- Native American Research
- Urban Research
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
National Archives Launches Our Archives Wiki
The National Archives has launched its first public wiki called Our Archives on Wikispaces located at: Our Archives.
Our Archives is an available space for members of the public, researchers, and staff to share knowledge about National Archives records, resources and research. The wiki represents an chance for historians, researchers, archivists, and citizen archivists to collaborate building pages on specific records or topics and to share information and resources to connect with multiple other researchers.
Univ. of Tennessee Wins Grant to Digitize Newspapers
In two years, students, historians, and anyone else curious about nearly a century of history should have 100,000 pages of Tennessee newspapers at their fingertips. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from 1836 to 1922.
More . . .
Newspaper ads offer genealogy clues
Newspaper display and classified advertisements not only offer insight into an era, but they give us valuable clues for additional genealogy research. They also add character and local flavor to people and places. more . . .
Let Google Alerts notify you about your genealogy
Click on the following link, Google Alerts. Use Google Alerts to look for your surnames AND Genealogy to see new researchers for your surnames, once a day, or once a week and you will receive emails automatically. Example:
genealogy AND (Powell OR Luckey OR Canright)
Genealogy Chats Calendar
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Thursdae, 29-July-10, GENTREK presents "Analysing Conflicting Evidence." Fortunate is the genealogist who finds clear-cut evidence of ancestral parentage. When such evidence isn't available, or is ambiguous, separate records must be sought, analysed, compared, and reconciled to support a hypothesis. Such analysis must consider the type of record, the date it was prepared, the person who created it, and the reason for its existence — especially when the evidence is not from official files. We'll begin at 10pm in the chatroom of Looking4Kin.
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Thursdae, 29-July-10. Join us in The American Civil War History chatroom and see what we have for you. We will begin at 11 PM EDT in the AOL chatroom, Ancestral Digs.
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Fridae, 30-July-10, the American Civil War History will present "A Memorial to William A. Thomas," by his great-grand-nephew Terry Coats. Join us, won't you, at 10 PM EDT in the AOL chatroom, Ancestral Digs?
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Saturdae, 31-July-10, GENTREK is on hiatus for Spring and Summer (Saturdaes only). Come see us at 10:00 AM EDT in SEPTEMBER in the Genealogy Wise Chatroom.
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Mondae, 26-July-10, GENTREK presents "Register Style Family Sketches." We'll define what a Family Sketch is and how to create one in a word processor using the style sheet to determine how each element will look. We'll even point you to a style sheet you can download. Join us at 9:00 pm EDT in the AOL Genealogy Chatroom.
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Mondae, 26-July-10, GENTREK presents "20th Century Military Research, part 1." Military records of major genealogical importance consist mainly of service and pension files. Service files contain documents relating to events which affect personnel during their tour of duty from enlistment or induction to separation or discharge. Join us at 10:00 pm EDT in the Genealogy Wise Chatroom.
Classic sketch
"Without Words"
by Juanita Hamel, 1922
When every glance of the eye, each inflection of the voice and every action fail to force her to admit that she really knows he loves her, ah, then there may come into play a method of expressing his devotion which she cannot overlook!
Two hearts entwined and pierced by Cupid's arrow — engraved in the living rock — how can she avoid seeing? And, beholding, can she fail to understand — can she again pretend, though no words are spoken, that she doesn't know his heart is hers?
Thought
The Typewriter
The famous composer Leroy Anderson wrote it, as well as Sleigh Ride and Percolator. When performed, he often mimed using a typewriter along with the music. But some ingenious musicians decided to use a real typewriter as an instrument. And it's been the staple of the song ever since. Here percussionist Martin Breinschmid plays it perfectly.
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