The Genealogue is a genealogy blog I stumbled upon quite some time ago. The first blog post is way back in May of 2005. There were regular blog posts right up until April 2010. Since then though there has only been one blog post and that was is June 2012.
Even though there are no regular blog posts any more, the archived blog posts are good. The most recent post was entitled Ancestry DNA and a Possible Faux-Pa. Since I really don’t know a lot about using DNA for ancestry, I found that blog post to be a very interesting read. Perhaps there are some surprises when you use DNA or perhaps DNA tests need to be refined a bit to be really useful.
There are more than one thousand archived blog posts. However there are no categories or tags shown. If you’re looking for information about a particular subject, you’ll need to use the blog search. Doing a blog search for “census” turned up quite a number of posts, some of which I found very interesting. Having categories or tags would be a bit more useful, but finding relevant and interesting posts with the search feature is pretty easy.
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This photo comes from a 19th century Sanders & Fryher Photo album. If you can identify the date, age of the individual or who the person is, please post a remark about it.
This is another photo which comes from a 19th century photo album I acquired. The mystery I’ve been unable to solve is who is this woman. This photo is a little unique in the album in that it has some writing on the back of the photo. Unfortunately the writing is is faded and unreadable in parts that I can’t tell what it says. Perhaps a reader of this blog will be able to solve this mystery.
One of our prior series of blog posts went through how I was able to identify some of the photos within the 19th century photo you can read about that here. Photo Genealogy at Hidden Genealogy Nuggets
A couple Sundays ago, I reviewed one of the books which was instrumental in helping me how to identify old photos. Read about that here Sunday Morning Book Review – Unlocking the Secrets in Old Photographs by Karen Frisch-Ripley.
This week’s Sunday morning book review is a book called “Children of the Civil War” It was written by Candice F. Ransom and published in 1998 by Carolrhoda Books, Inc. It is not a genealogical publication but depicts the life and times of children during the civil war period.
The book itself is geared towards grade school, perhaps somewhere between 4th and 8th grade. Although the book is geared towards grade school pupils, I found it an interesting read. The book is short but filled with interesting facts and photos. John Clem, a young drummer boy joined the Union Army at age 11. You can see a photo of him and read about what happened to him during a battle in Tennessee.
A great way to introduce the younger generation to family members, who fought during the civil war, would be to sit down with them and read through the book together. At the end of the book is a craft to create a secret code wheel.
