With video now as easy as pulling out your phone, it is essential to preserve video as a part of documenting a person’s life. Memorial or tribute videos are one of the standard services now offered by funeral homes. These videos are often no more than a collection of family-provided photos panned and zoomed across …
While most instances of “instant” may be easy to discern the meaning from the context, my encounter with this unfamiliar usage was quite befuddling to me. It was from a 19 October 1904 wedding announcement: Miss Bessie Cleghorn and Mr. Forrest Additon of Flowery Branch, were married by ‘Squire Walter W. Cooper 4th. instant. The …
This is from the Atlanta newspaper, The Daily Intelligencer, 6 November 1867, page 3. (PDF) To the Honorable Mayor and Council of the City of Atlanta: The committee to whom was referred the petition of many citizens, asking for the re-naming of streets and the numbering of houses, &c. beg leave to report: That, having …
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Paper degrades, photos fade and all physical records are subject to damage from fire or flood. With inexpensive scanners available, it is possible to digitize all old paper records. While it can be time-consuming, it isn’t insurmountable (I teach people how!). Almost everyone now carries a high-quality digital camera with them in their smart phone. …
When I was an undergrad at GSU, I wrote for the student newspaper, The Signal. While I mostly wrote news bits and a few features on some minor controversies. I was taken aback about a story told to me when I was making my routine stop by the Campus Police Station. I had already heard …
The Family Bible Preservation Project does great work in getting non-standard genealogical sources indexed and connected to the records of the people recorded. They also issue interesting and fun genealogical challenges – usually finding someone in an obscure reference, such as people mentioned in an embroidered sampler. I took on a challenge, from the attached …
altar tomb – A solid, rectangular, raised tomb or grave marker resembling ceremonial altars of classical antiquity and Judeo-Christian ritual. ashes – the cremated remains of a body after cremation, mostly dry calcium phosphates with some various minor minerals such as salts of sodium and potassium, or more simply, bone matter. bevel marker – A …
I received a phone call on my cell phone recently…. with so many spam calls, I was expecting it to be annoying, but instead it was a kind voice, apologetic, letting me know she might have a wrong number… She was looking for a friend, Janet Profitt, and all she had to go on was …
On Thomas Jefferson’s grave marker, his birth date is shown as “BORN APRIL 2, 1743 O.S.”
What is this “O.S.”?
When doing genealogical research, it is not uncommon to come across information that is protected under copyright law. While government documents and very old information that is no longer covered by copyright make up a large part of genealogical research, there is much that we have access to that may be protected by copyright law. …
