Where in the World is Sam Silver?
Sam Silver was my grandfather’s brother, my great-uncle. Unless he is the oldest man in the world, in which case he probably would have been in the newspapers and I would know where he is, he is long deceased by …
Category: Miscellaneous
June Genealogy To-Do List
Research * continue to look for sources for births/marriages/deaths of direct line ancestors as part of sourcing goal. * work on finding my Boothby cousins and trying to get more information on Grandma Carrie and her life. I want to …
My Boothbys of Maine?
Judy and I recently had a weekend in Portland Maine with our 2 other wonderful college friends. It was not perfect weather by any means, being misty to rainy and somewhere around 55 degrees. As usual, though, the four of …
What I Learned Watching My Computer
There are a number of free genealogy webinars offered, and in the spirit of my goal of doing more education I have been watching some of them. GeneaWebinars and the Legacy Family Tree Webinars have been particularly useful. I have …
Stavropol, Vienna, New York? A Photographic Mystery
I have two pictures of my great-grandparents, Mendel and Lena Silverman with my grandfather and his brother dressed in Russian Cossack outfits. These are not two different pictures; they are the same picture pasted on different card stock from different …
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