Posts in December 10, 2024

Years ago, I submitted a set of corrections published in a genealogy newsletter to the transcription of the tombstones of several ancestors. The year was 1988. The stones today are not legible. My notes, if I still have them, are probably buried in a filing cabinet in my storage unit. I had totally forgotten submitting the correction until I found my own letter to the editor while using the full-text search functionality of the FamilySearch website. These transcriptions are not online anywhere else. Genealogy periodicals contain a wide variety and wealth of information. The problem is that for years finding it was difficult and tedious. Searching old genealogical periodicals is not as difficult as it was years ago as more things are available digitally and there are more […]