Hello cousins, I was hunting for something to send to my genealogy society (South King County GS) and thought you might enjoy it too.
A bit of THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM's?Thursday Evening E-News Edition: April 2, 2020:
? In a recent GenealogyBank blogpost, Gena Philibert-Ortega describes five ways family historians can use library services even when the building itself is closed. Check out her entry entitled Genealogy during Quarantine: 5 Things to Do When the Library Is Closed.
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? How many of us wish we had a diary or journal from an ancestor who lived through the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic? The Genealogy Reporter, Amie Bowser Tenant has some suggestions for creating your own journal of memories related to our current Covid-19 experience in her post, Journaling about the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020.
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? Looking for fun ways to engage kids in finding family history? The National Archives is providing downloadable family trees and charts for kids of all ages. What a great way to spend some of your time with your loved ones in this time of physical distancing. While there, check out some of their other Educator Resources.
While exploring the first link, I found??. What a treasure trove!
I promised to work on my husband's Daiber family, and I did find a LOT on MyHeritage and?Chronicling America from The Library of Congress:? but what I found didn't help me find his family here in the US or in Germany - yet. This is someone's John Daiber/Dauber, Civil War soldier but I see no evidence that he's mine:
Anyone know more about this John and Catherine?
I did find out my husband's John Daiber's wife Catherine's surname, Kreeb. And she may connect to a German family on FamilySearch:?. As always, more research needed.?
What have you been doing, and what have you found?
Valorie Zimmerman