Articles by Lorelle VanFossen

Author Website: http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/
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Author Bio: Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it.

Oregon Historical and Genealogical Information Resources

The Oregon American History and Genealogy Project shares historical and genealogical information about the US state of Oregon, helping you to learn more about the history of the area and your family’s history within the area.
Highlights include:

Multnomah County, Oregon (includes Portland)
Baker County, Oregon
Malheur County, Oregon
Umatilla County, Oregon
Oregon Biographies
Oregon Cemeteries
Eastern Oregon Photo Album
Eastern Oregon Obituary Database
Indian [...]

Tips for Estimating Your Ancestors Dates

Tips from the Pros: Date Estimates-More Than a Good Guess from Ancestry.com offers some great information on how to estimate your ancestors’ dates.
Most online database websites provide a field for selecting the date range of a search, or the age range of an individual in a particular record. An age range is, in fact, a [...]

Historical Photographs from England and Wales

Footsteps Photos is an online collection and photography retailer for photographs from England and Wales
They produce fine quality prints from their library of several thousand photographs dating from about 1900 to 1930, depicting views of towns, villages, schools, churches etc. of England and Wales early negatives and prints. The photographs are digitally restored to remove [...]

Boston 1775 Comes Alive

What Was Under Those White Wigs asks the Boston 1775 blog. Written by historian and expert, J.L. Bell, Boston 1775 is dedicated to the 17th and 18th century in the United States.
As part of my exploration of the 1700s and 1800s, trying to learn more about the lifestyle of my family in the United States [...]

Where They Lived Tells Us More About How They Lived

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Using Coroner Records in Your Family History Research


Postcards May Help Tell Your Family History Story

GenWeekly reports “Postcards may be a great way to enhance - and enlighten - your family history”, something I’ve been working on for a while.
Dedicated to helping researchers appreciate and explore the social history aspect of their own genealogy, Gena Philipbert-Ortega, in her article, Using Postcards to Illustrate your Family History, once again provides us [...]

Free Early Baroque Music from the 14th - 16th centuries

Early Music is an amazing resource if you are interested in music from the past.
Created by Jon Sayles, a computer technologies expert, as a hobby, Early Music is dedicated to reproducing and sharing music from the Baroque and English Renaissance time period, specifically the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, featuring composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, [...]

Books from Your Ancestor’s Past: 15th-19th Century Books Digitized

Godfrey’s Book-Shelf is an amazing collection of books reproduced digitally and freely available for download, representing books from the 15th - 19th century.
Read books popular during your ancestor’s life. Explore the ways of thinking, living, and politics from your family’s past.
Some of these books are technical, but many are fiction and lifestyle books, helping [...]

CanGenealogy: Canadian Genealogy Site

CanGenealogy is a Canadian genealogy site to help you trace your family roots through this North American country.
Genealogy information is segregated by region, such as Alberta, Ontario, and Nova Scotia; by category such as Maps, Immigration, and Loyalists; and offers a variety of other resources and tools to help you trace your family history in [...]

 
 
Family Images - Do you know these people

Do You Know These People?

Do you know these people? Do you recognize them? These are some lost family and friends we are trying to identify, so check out our Do You Know These People lost and found section to help us identify these people.