The Genealogy Search

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Dad's high school senior picture 1952 Dad 1954 or 1955  while stationed in Hawaii with the Marines 

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Crista Cowan of the Ancestry Aces has given an interesting blog prompt:  What is your favorite resource on Ancestry.com? Do you have one database that you use more than others? A favorite tool, tip or trick you use when searching?  My favorite resource on Ancestry.  Well I guess that would depend on what I was looking for.  If I was researching an area, then my favorite resource would be the card catalog.  I find it to be a good jumping off spot.   If I know that there are databases for Cook County Illinois voting records for specific years, I can check for ancestor names and misspellings for that particular family during that time period.  I also like to take a specific database and run all of the ancestors I believe to be in area through it.  For example the Chicago voting records should include both my grandfather, both my maternal great grandfathers, and several great uncles.  Even though they have different surnames I can complete the search for all of them on the database and c

Harold Clark  (1930-1997)  Sgt US Marine Corps .

1940 U. S. Census, Christian County, population schedule, Bear Creek, enumeration district (ED) 11-4, 3B (stamped), household 52, Family of Otis and Ruby Clark; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://interactive.ancestry.com/2442/M-T0627-00767-00083/140152369?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fMS_AdvCB%3d1%26rank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d2%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3druby%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln%3dclark%26gsln_x%3d1%26msypn__ftp%3dBear%2bCreek%252c%2bChristian%252c%2bIllinois%252c%2bUSA%26msypn%3d36700%26msypn_PInfo%3d8-%257c0%257c1652393%257c0%257c2%257c3247%257c16%257c0%257c606%257c36700%257c0%257c%26msypn_x%3dXO%26msypn__ftp_x%3d1%26cpxt%3d0%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3dbf4%26cp%3d0%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d140152369%26db%3d1940usfedcen%26indiv%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord : accessed 10 August 2012); Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Ar

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A prompt from Crista Cowan of  Ancestry.com  Aces Program  asked what are your five or six favorite genealogy blogs to read.  Boy it was hard to limit my favorites, I think I could have shared at least ten or fifteen genealogy blogs.  Here are my “favorite six”: Genea-Musings http://www.geneamusings.com/ Randy Seaver shares research, thoughts, family, and tips on his blog.  I really enjoy his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun (SNGF) prompts.  I like the Legacy and RootsMagic posts about using  both of the software programs.    Ancestry Insider http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com I really enjoy the Ancestry Insider,   Topics include Ancestry and FamilySearch updates and website information – Greta’s Genealogy Bog http://gretabog.blogspot.com/ Tips for research,and tools.  Greta shares joys, problems, and pitfalls of family research.  Her blog also has research links for South Carolina, Texas and General Genealogy.  GeneaWebinars http://blog.geneawebinars.com/

Frank and Eva Urman, Irene and Erv  Sobczak 

I’m 5 Today! The Genealogy Search blog is officially five today.  It is hard to believe that five years has gone by so quickly.  I am happy to report that my blog has found new relatives, shared numerous family pictures, allowed me to meet new "blogger" friends, and learn from other blogs.  What a wonderful group Geneabloggers has been and thank you Thomas MacEntee, Amy Coffin, and all the other genealogy bloggers for all your inspiration. Here's to another wonderful year of blogging and continuing the Genealogy Search!

Visiting my mother in North Carolina yielded a plethora of genealogical goodies.  Among my grandfather's papers that my mother had possession of was his Honorable Discharge dated August 4, 1919.  I am having difficulty making out the Battles, engagement, skirmishes, and expeditions on the Enlistment Record but I am thrilled to have the paper in my possession.   My mother also gave me his book The Forty-Seventh Infantry, A History 1917-1918  1919 copyrighted in 1929 by James E. Pollard.  The book is a record of events and incidents of the 47th Infantry.  Included are photographs of the Battalions and Companies that made up the 47th Infantry and maps of Action at Sergy, France; St. Thibalt, France and the Argonne Offensive.  My Grandfather is not listed in any of the Battalion or Company photos.  If you have a relative that served in the 47th Infantry I would be happy check the book  to see if they are included.  I will share more of my goodies in later posts.

Otis Clark, Mary Elizabeth Durbin Clark, Iva Clark and Louis Clark unknown date