Passing on Family Heirlooms
By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on April 20, 2015
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak gives practical tips on how to document and preserve your precious family heirlooms... (Read More)
Tag: Preservation
Rescue Mission: 4-Step Plan for Preserving Family Bible Records
By Thomas Jay Kemp on July 30, 2014
An article about preserving old family Bibles by digitally scanning them and putting them online to safeguard the family history information they contain... (Read More)
Old Tombstones Recently Unearthed from Forgotten Illinois Cemetery
By Thomas Jay Kemp on July 25, 2013
Genealogists are always digging. So are backhoe operators. It was a good thing that the Fosterburg Water District was digging for a waterline in Prairietown, Illinois, because while digging they found a long-abandoned historic cemetery. Amazing. No one had remembered that there was an old cemetery there. The tombstones had fallen and over the... (Read More)
Genealogy Records Storage: Tips & Software to Preserve Your Family History
By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 28, 2012
After doing family history research for awhile, genealogists reach the point where they ask themselves: I have gathered all this information—now, what do I do with it? Genealogists are the family hunter/gatherers, sifting through family obituaries, photographs and birth certificates. We take that information and organize it on our home computers in family tree... (Read More)
32 Million immigrants will see their record status changed to permanent in Wednesday Signing Ceremony
By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 3, 2009
Signing Ceremony Permits 32 Million Alien Files to Become Permanent Records at the National Archives – A Genealogy Goldmine. Adrienne Thomas, Acting Archivist of the United States and Gregory Smith, Associate Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will hold a joint signing ceremony between the National Archives and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration... (Read More)
‘Great American Success Story’ – William & James Ledford
By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 13, 2009
We receive “fan mail” every day – this letter was so good I wanted to share it. _____________________________________________ Tom, I’ve been working, several months, on an ‘Great American Success Story’. William L. Ledford and his brother James E. Ledford were born in the mid 1840’s in Cherokee County, NC. by the time they were... (Read More)
