For WordPress Beginners and Veterans – A Handbook! I know some of you are thinking of starting a WordPress self-hosted blog, but it seems rather overwhelming, doesn’t it? I thought it was when I began this blog in 2007. I had no clue what to do at all. I just knew that WordPress [...]
1933 Seattle: Gunner Moline – Owner of Moline Furniture Co

The Value of City Directories for Genealogists Many times we have to hunt through records using first names with one surname in order to document each family member. One way to speed up the process is to check city directories for the one surname and see which first names are listed. Many times you get [...]
The Importance Of Considering All Surname Spellings

Surname Spellings: It’s All In The Eye Of The Beholder Early on in my genealogical research I was under the impression that it was best to look for the spelling of my maiden name Yates using just those letters. Boy, was I proved wrong almost immediately. While looking in census records for my ancestors with [...]



















