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FamilySearch Communities
FamilySearch recently added a community feature, and it is free! The community area offers forums in which to ask or to answer questions, to upload documents for translation assistance, and to find links to related resources, such as foreign word … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family Research, FamilySearch
Tagged Collaboration, FamilySearch
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Records of the Skies: Obtaining Airplane Records
My last post featured tracing a former “family” airplane to its modern owner in order to share photographs and information. Tracing a family artifact, no matter the size, helps to flesh out fragmented stories, produces facts to weave into a … Continue reading
Hope
The tiny Ercoupe caught my father’s eye in 1950. In 2017, that seventy-one-year-old airplane reminded me of the goodness in others. Of hope.
Missouri: Adoption and Original Birth Certificates, Take Three
If you have an interest in original birth certificates from Missouri, take note.
Posted in Adoption, Law, Records
Tagged Missouri, Original Birth Certificate, Post-Adoption Research
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Relocating for Religion: The Christian Catholic Church and “The Leaves of Healing”
Faith healing. A flat earth. The promise of a Utopian society.[1] If not for a religious sect whose doctrine makes me squirm, I would not be alive.
Illinois State Library Offers Free Trial Databases
It’s that time again. This marks the eighteenth year for the Illinois State Library’s free trial database program, Try-It! Illinois. Users of over 5,000 Illinois ILLINET libraries are allowed trial access to numerous databases.
Cherished Tokens
We first bagged those things that made my mother appear familiar. It was a logical place to begin. Her clothing was nearest the door. Discarding and donating the clothes of a dead woman has its ghosts.
