The Genealogy Search

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun --  The Wayback Machine Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Join in the fun with Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Prompt for Saturday Night Fun Original post at http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-wayback.html   1)  Do you have a website or a blog?  Or know someone with one?  Pick yours, or theirs or another. 2)  Now go to the Wayback Machine ( https://web.archive.org/web/ ) and put the web site address in the search field.   3)  Share your Wayback adventure with us in your own blog post, in a Facebook or google+ post.  Be sure to leave a link in a Comment on this blog. Here's mine: The Wayback Machine starts for The Genealogy Search on 11 January 2012.  Here are four of my posts from that period of history:  ...

I blogged the other day about my Great-grandparents Wilhelm and Julia Skibbe.  Julia died of Bright's disease with a contributory factor of arsenic poisoning. Why would she be given arsenic?  In the early 1900's arsenic was used for numerous ailments.  Among them were sexual diseases, acne, malaria, and headaches.  Interestingly, my family has a documented history of migraines. A great place to find out more about those old medical terms is  Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms .  You can also check out  Genproxy ,  and Old Names for Illness and Causes of Death  for more information.  A good book to have as reference is A Medical Miscellany for Genealogists by Dr. Jeanette L. Gerger.  The book is available used for around $14 or new for about $22.   Take your research a step further by doing a little research into the cause of death.  You never know you may uncover some interesting details or a genetic malady in yo...