Wednesday’s Words[1]– ami/amy

AMI; AMY­– A friend; as alien ami, an alien belonging to a nation at peace with us; prochain ami, a next friend suing or defending for an infant, married woman, etc. Henry Campbell Black. A Dictionary of Law… (St. Paul: West Publishing Co.), 1891.[2]   AMY – An infant’s next friend. [p. 9] Percy C.…

Resource Review:  Discovering Your Female Ancestors

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. Discovering Your Female Ancestors: Special Strategies for Uncovering Hard-to-Find Information about Your Female Lineage. Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 1988. Though Carmack’s book is nearly twenty years old now, it holds up astonishingly well. For instance, seeing a section on matrilineal genetics in a book that was published in 1998 is more than a…

Genealogy: Bringing Women out of the Shadows…?

There’s no doubt that family history has become a hugely popular American hobby. People are anxious to rediscover who their ancestors were and what kinds of lives they led. Ancestrycommercials and multiple TV shows are being seen all over America, and even internationally. People want to know more about their ancestry. All of their ancestry.…

Bringing a Passion into Focus

Bringing an Idea into Focus Anyone who read the previous blog may recall that it was a place for me to talk/write out what I was thinking and doing in a way to help me (and maybe others) work through specific research problems, or just to point to things that I thought may be important.…

New Site, New Blog

After a hiatus to focus on earning the Certified Genealogist® credential, I decided it was finally time to get a new site up and start a fresh new blog. The old blog (found here) was meant as a way for me to document some research (amongst other things) as I moved closer towards achieving my goal…
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