It’s Wednesday, time for some mid-week fun! In the picture below, we’ve hidden 13 words all around dynastree and genealogy. The words can be up, down and diagonal, but not backwards. The first one who sends the complete list of the 13 words to info@dynastree.com wins one of our T-shirts!
Of course, choosing a name for a child is no child’s play. We have to cope with our names all our lives and as we’ve seen some days ago, this can go terribly wrong. Many couples seek for inspiration in books, online or in the family. Let’s help them!
In seeking their roots genealogists often face difficulties. Incomplete information or no information at all, difficulties in obtaining news, even if you know that years before the family emigrated abroad: all these problems are not unusual. For the letter case, the Official Ellis Island website has passenger lists online that can be searched for free. If you know that your family emigrated to the US, they might have ended up on Ellis Island, the famous portal to the US for many immigrants from Europe. Maybe you find your forefathers’ name.
(Click on the image to get to the website)
In the past, we recommended a useful little online gadget that lets you search the Library of Congress’ American Memory database. Today’s gadget works quite similarly, but this one automatically searches the free interment.net Cemetery Records database.
According to the website, currently there are 3,897,472 cemetery records across 8,375 cemeteries available for search. So type in your last name and see what happens. Maybe you find ancestors you didn’t know about!
Genealogy has become a very popular hobby in the English-speaking world and every day there are new genealogy websites popping out of every corner of the net. But which sites are worth surfing to? Where can I get answers to or at least help with the genealogical questions: "Who are my ancestors?" and "Where does my family come from?"
That is why dynastree is looking for the Top 50 Genealogy Sites on the internet! The sites will be awarded the dynastree Top 50 seal and we’ll present them on our award page.
Now it’s up to you: recommend sites in the comments on this post or send us an email to info@dynastree.com.
