New Search on Find A Grave

New Search on Find A Grave

Find A Grave has announced a new more robust search option.  Here's a link to the announcement.

New Search on Find A Grave

Dick Henthorn

24 Oct 2019

FindAGrave

I've been learning more about FindAGrave.

My member number is: (#48542447)

My Profile Page

Here's a search box for the application.

Search 123.3 million cemetery records at by entering a surname and clicking search: Surname:

I created several Virtual Cemeteries. This kind of cemetery doesn't actually exist. Rather, it's a collection of links to the graves of people of interest. I populated two of the Virtual Cemeteries I created.  One is for members of my maternal line, the Hagstrom and Carlson family, and the other is for my paternal line, the Henthorn family.

Carlson and Hagstrom Cemeteries

Henthorn Cemeteries

I made Find A Grave Friends with several people who have made extensive posts about families of interest.  Friends show up in each member's profile.

Dick Henthorn
14 October 2014

Researcher Fact

I added a new Fact, that I created, to the Conger genealogy file.  The name of the fact is Researcher and it is abbreviated in my file as, Reschr.

When my genealogy program was PAF I entered the data tag, RESEARCHER: in the Note of anyone who was either a researcher or had a relationship with someone who was a researcher.

I used the RootsMagic search to find all of the RESEARCHER: tags in the Conger file and added the new Fact to the appropriate records.

Now anytime I am viewing the edit screen for a person with this Fact the abbreviation displays. When I print a descendant report RootsMagic prints out this phrase, which I created, when I added the new Fact.

"The record of John Doe lists genealogy researcher information."

I can also search on this Fact to find all of the researchers or create a Researcher List of all the researchers in the file (The Researcher List for the Conger file is five pages with one person listed per line of the report).

Dick Henthorn

4 September 2014

Wykert Family

Here are links to seven pages on this blog about the Wykert family of West Virginia and points west.

Wykert - 1

Wykert - 2

Wykert - 3

Wykert - 4

Wykert - 5

Wykert - 6

Wykert - 7

Note: This was a test to see how easy it would be to create a page that links to other pages on this blog.  You could also find the seven pages yourself by using the Search box in the right hand sidebar or the Labels that appear at the bottom of each page.  Labels works better than Search in this case.

I thought this might be a nice way to prepare a summary page, making it easier for a reader to find things.

Use your browser back key to return to this page from any of the seven links.

Try the Print Friendly button at the bottom of each page if you want to print out the information. You can also download a PDF and Email a copy of the page with Print Friendly.
19 June 2014

Using Google Search with RootsWeb FreePages

Ancestry.com provides free space where you can build a genealogy website.  The service, part of Rootsweb, is called FreePages.

Here's a Google search command you can use to find pages with the word Henthorn in the FreePages area of RootsWeb. To look for another surname simply replace Henthorn with the surname of interest. (Note: It is important to put a space (blank) between the "/" and the surname Henthorn. This may not evident in my post, depending on how the long search term appears on your screen.)

site:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Henthorn

As of 18 January 2013, when I tested this search there were over 800 hits.

18 January 2013

FamilySearch Introduces Two New Search Features

FamilySearch Introduces Two New Search Features:

'via Blog this'

7 January 2013