Archives for Nancy Hendrickson
AncestorNews: Find a Cemetery Online Premium
On my next trip to Missouri, I want to hunt up the Shore family cemetery, the burial place of my Moravian Shore (Schor) family who emigrated here from Switzerland in 1750. Although I know the cemetery exists (I've found reference to it in a Shore genealogy book) I wasn't...
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AncestorNews: Saving Heirlooms from Natural Disasters Premium
Most of you probably read about the horrible wildfires that burned through San Diego County last month. Although part of my family was evacuated during the first few days, all of our homes were safe. Hundreds of other people weren't so lucky. As I stood on my balcony the...
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AncestorNews: Better Letters Premium
Although my aunt passed away two years ago, my cousin waited until her father was also gone before beginning the monumental task of sorting through everything in their house. Because I'm the appointed family historian, I've been given the task of going through boxes and boxes of old photos and...
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Hunt Down Rare Books Premium
Don't get in a bind hunting down old books. We'll teach you online tricks for turning up rare and out-of-print volumes.
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AncestorNews: Blog Your Family Premium
A couple of years ago, an interesting phenomenon hit the Web. Called a WebLog (or blog for short), it gave people who didn't want to build Web pages a way to have a site without the HTML headache. (HTML, as you probably know, stands for Hypertext Markup Language—the code...
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AncestorNews: Backdoor Genealogy Premium
Sometimes the only way to crack a tough family line is through a backdoor—an indirect route to your direct ancestor through siblings, friends or a spouse's line. A recent example of backdoor (or cluster) genealogy came in an e-mail from my Internet cousin, Judy Richardson. While visiting the...
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AncestorNews: Arizona Pioneers Premium
As I write this, I'm looking out onto an unbelievable view of the red rocks of Sedona, Ariz. Although a Spaniard named Antonio de Espejo explored the nearby Verde Valley in 1583, Sedona wasn't settled until Jim Thompson arrived here in 1876. Thompson, an Irish immigrant, took squatter's rights...
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AncestorNews: Where to Look for Books Premium
If you've read my column for any length of time, you know that one of my favorite genealogy pursuits is haunting used bookstores online. That's because I've found some incredible family tales in old books. The one I like best, hands down, is about how an ancestor shot a...
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The Best of AncestorNews: Ancestors on the Move Premium
Early American settlers traveled on coastal roads or rivers. The first real highway connected the southern and northern colonies, and hop-scotched the coastal cities of Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk and north to Boston. Later, roads spread out like fingers from the coast, such as the Great Valley Road into the...
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