I’m sure I’ve added to this list since I last posted a link to it, but here is my offering of great genealogists I follow on Twitter and elsewhere. Webduck’s Twitter List Of Awesome Genealogists I’d love to add you to this list if you are not already on it! Thank you to all my [...]
Our Ancestor’s Moving Experiences
Tombstone Tuesday – Russell W. Volckmann
On a recent visit to Iowa my husband Jim found the gravestone of Russell William Volckmann that I have written about several times in this blog. The headstone is located in Springdale Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa (FindAGrave location). There are several Volckmanns buried in the same general area around the General’s headstone.
52 Weeks To Better Genealogy – Challenge #29 – Handwriting
Handwriting Traits In Your Ancestor’s Penmanship After eighteen months of training, I became a Certified Handwriting Analyst through the International Graphoanalysis Society in 1987. I had always been fascinated by the quirks I could see in other people’s handwriting, and as always, I wanted to know what it all meant. Loops, curls, dots and cross [...]












