The Genealogy Search

July 1936 Bob and Frank Yurmanovich later changed to Urman, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

William and Clara Skibbe, William and Loretta Skibbe( Vlchek, Todd) , Minnie Vlchek and Loretta's daughter Holly 

Now is the time to register for the Family History Expo in Mesa, Arizona.  Yes, it is in January - but if you register now you can take advantage of the Early Bird Pricing.  The Early Bird price is $59 for both days and is valid until November 27th, 2012.  Pricing for the event after November 27th will be $79.00 for both days or $55 for either Friday or Saturday, or $99 at the door.   I am happy to announce that I will once again be an official blogger for the event.  I will share information with you as it comes available including the speakers and vendors for the event. Click here  to register to take advantage of the Early Bird Pricing. Hope to see you there!

8th Street School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Ivana (Eva) Drvaric (Urman) second row, second from the left 

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Miottel Farm, Revillo, South Dakota (Clara, my grandmother is far left, Clara Miottel Polfus is woman on far right, I believe the middle lady may be Bertha Miottel.  I do not know who the men are in the photo.

Genie news from Geneabloggers ( http://www.geneabloggers.com/ ) Library of Congress has a new FREE online magazine Did you know that the Library of Congress has a new "e-zine" available online? The  Library of Congress Magazine ( http://www.loc.gov/lcm/ ) is published bi-monthly and the September/October 2012 issue can be downloaded in PDF here  (it is almost a 15MB download and you will need the free Adobe Reader program to open the file). The first issue focuses on the War of 1812 and how the Library of Congress collection was started from the ashes of the burning of Washington, DC.

I have been so busy trying to finish up paperwork for our genealogy society (Pima County Genealogy Society), it seems I have my hand in everything from speaking to planning, tax forms to policies & procedures, and do a little PI work that I have not had too much free time to "play" with my family history. I have committed myself to get fixing my genealogy database, mainly fixing  incorrect citations and citations that have printed out incorrectly (I have not quiet figured out why some of them do not have the part of the source in italics).  Some of my sourcing was done incorrectly, before the Evidence book was published and before I knew what I was doing.  My husband who calls me a Citation Nazi  has been trying to figure why I have the need to correct everything - I think I have some great fear that one day Elizabeth Shown Mills will see my citations and tsk tsk my incorrect sourcing.  I have almost finished scanning photos I removed from my mother's clutches

Janice and Nancy Drezdon cir 1944

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