This sad story was found in the Buffalo Evening Courier and Republic on 14 February 1873: "Death of a Drinking Man. Last night Joseph Johnson, a man somewhat addicted to…
For years, the National Archives and Records Administration has been posting videos for a Genealogy Fair. You can learn more about the National Archives Genealogy Series here: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair. This is…
Connie Knox has a channel on YouTube called Genealogy TV. A video that she published last month is: U.S. Census Maps and Other Unindex[ed] Records on FamilySearch.org. https://youtu.be/1ectqP9Ogys You can…
One of the presentations shared with the 2021 RootsTech Connect virtual conference is: Getting Started: Finding Ancestors and Homelands. This is a video for someone just getting started with genealogy…
Here is a webinar from the BYU Family History Library channel on YouTube on creating Fun, Free Family Tree Charts by Kathryn Grant. This is a great webinar to discover…
In the October 1899 publication of the Lockport High School Crescent, a poem was included written by Irma E. Southworth, class of 1900: Hope Invincible. "She built a beautiful castle…
St. Michael the Archangel's cemetery is located on Rt. 31 (Saunders Settlement Rd.) in the Town of Lewiston. The Dorothy Rolling & Donald R. Jerge (members of Niagara County Genealogical…
The following YouTube presentation by Joel Weintraub is titled: The 1950 U.S. Census for Genealogists. The video is 41:20 minutes long. https://youtu.be/JgU8GLYQxtg The handout for this video is located at:…
The following is a 5-minute video that was made for the RootsTech Connect 2021 Conference. Diana Elder shows how to navigate the FamilySearch Catalog and conduct a Place Search. https://youtu.be/oT8E2U0AfzE…
In the blog post "People of Niagara County: Othniel Charles Marsh (Part 1)", I mentioned that I reached out to the Niagara County Historian's Office for more information on Othniel…