Do you ever wonder how people come up with their children’s names? Sometimes it’s easy if they are a junior or have a name like John or Elizabeth and then sometimes you have to search a little deeper. I wrote about my great-grandfather, Eli Bernard Stabley, a few months ago. You can read about himContinue reading “Surnames As Middle Names In Genealogy Research”
Tag Archives: Pennsylvania
How Google Translate Can Help Your Genealogy Research
This is week 10 of the 52 Ancestors Challenge Your genealogy research is expanding week by week. A few years ago I visited Saint Paul’s Lebanon Lutheran Cemetery in Felton, York, Pennsylvania. I have many relatives who are buried there with surnames of Stabley/Stabler, Flinchbaugh, and Sechrist. It was a beautiful day to quietly wanderContinue reading “How Google Translate Can Help Your Genealogy Research”
Records That Provide Great Details For Your Genealogy Research
Census records are one of the most fundamental records in which to find your ancestors. They give so much information and provide clues to other records for our genealogy research. But they are just a snapshot of place and time every 10 years. If you want to find out what happened between census years youContinue reading “Records That Provide Great Details For Your Genealogy Research”