2024May06
Vicki’s note – article from Family Tree Magazine explaining how to read the codes on a Deed Index for Grantees (buyers). There are also Deed Indexes by Grantors (sellers). A way to find vital info on your ancestors before vital records were recorded. Land records precede them.
22Apr2024
Vicki’s note – just a few of the fun, informative sources that I have discovered. See them also on my BLOG tab – alphabetical by topic: https://wordpress.com/page/statelinegenealogyclub.wordpress.com/157252
I am researching to create 3 new programs on the Underground Railroad, the History of Photography, and a genealogy program for young children ages 3 – 10.) These will be ready late this year / early next year.
I am also adding information to 2 of my existing programs:
“Slavery and the ‘Colored Troops’ that fought for the Union” to find more of the family background for my “Honoring Laurence Ousley of the Beloit Public Library, Wisconsin” program. I will rename it to “Slavery, Civil War Service, and Success – the Beloit Wisconsin Ousley Family.”
Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal – huge database of indexed learned articles on every aspect of Illinois, Lincoln, and United States history. (I am finding lots of information.) (also under BLOG tab Genealogy Links and Helps > States > Illinois.)
And “ready-cut house kits/ Sears Craftsman, etc.” for my “How to find the Genealogy of a House, and those that lived in It”. I will be presenting this program at Harvard Community Library, Illinois tonight at 6 p.m. and also on Zoom/In Person Hybrid for town and Country Public Library in Elburn, Illinois on June 17 at 7 p.m. I will add the Zoom link on my 2024 Programs tab and on my Facebook Page. to My SLGC Events when I get it.
Ready-Made Mail Order Kit Houses:
Mail Order Kit House Companies – https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-mail-order
How to identify Kit Houses – https://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=327170&p=2195425
Sears Floorplans – https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/03/what-is-sears-modern-home-and-sears.html
http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/byimage.htm
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-in-the-mail/https://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=327170&p=2195425
AND, finally, a bonus source for how to watch all of those great genealogy television programs out there:
“13 Must-See Genealogy TV” article from FamilyTreeMagazine on where to watch most of the shows above and more: Click here.
2024Mar23
Zoom and/or In-Person Presentations by Vicki Ruthe Hahn:
MARCH:
Using genealogy techniques of house architectural clues, local history, legal documents, maps, and stories, to learn more about a building and all of its occupants
Thursday, Free in-person stand-alone presentation for Beloit Public Library – Part 1 of a series. Effectively find the most that you can about your family history with hands-on exercises, & examples. Be successful using basic & advanced genealogy research methods. Briefly learn how to: search archives & on-line, record evidence, organize your genealogy, use timelines & “FAN” clubs, analyze records, & find missing clues based on what you know.
APRIL:
Hybrid Zoom/In-Person. Thursday, Free Zoom presentation (click on the Event Link –https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85946254390 ) for TMG – Tinley Moraine Genealogists (or attend at Tinley Park Public Library, 7851 Timber DR, Tinley Park, IL.) Hands on exercises & suggestions on how to reflect your own life through words, photos, & mapping. Bring a photo or picture from your past that you want to write about. Learn how to see more about your ancestors’ lives by recording stories you wish they had left.
More SLGC presentations are coming in 2024. More information on my BLOG tab “2024 Programs for Stateline Genealogy Club LLC – presented by Vicki Ruthe Hahn” OR on my SLGC FaceBook Page – “Stateline Genealogy Club, LLC – Vicki Ruthe Hahn”
2024Feb08
Vicki Ruthe Hahn
Reporter Taylor Castro interviewed me on April 6, 2024 for her Eye Witness News segment on Fox TV 39 WQRF in Rockford Illinois. Her topic was “the challenges that ethnic groups face when looking for information about their ancestral origins.” Taylor also wanted information about using genealogy for a segment on Black History Month. I will add a second link here when she presents the news segment later this month, and sends it to me.
Taylor and I had a lot of fun talking about genealogy and those specific topics – really we shared a lot of laughs and comradery even though I look very serious in the film snips she presented. Taylor interviewed me for about an hour and 15 minutes. Within an hour after that, she had crafted the information into a very succinct, intelligent, and thorough news segment of 2 1/2 minutes. (And changed clothes to do the reporting presentation!) I am very impressed with her journalistic skills.
You will be too. Here is the video link to our news segment on genealogy:
https://www.facebook.com/TaylorCastroWTVO/posts/380144278103091
2024Jan31
by Vicki Ruthe Hahn
I just added this new link on my BLOG Home page tab “Genealogy Links and Helps” under the topic “German (Germanic) Ancestors”: “Traditional German Clothing for Women and Men and Your German Heritage “
http://www.lulus.com/blog/resources/traditional-german-clothing-german-heritage/
The web site was suggested to me by student Corrine. She had used my other BLOG links to research a class project on her family history and what a day in the life of one ancestor would be. Corrine found this site on her own and wanted to share it with us – per Mom: “Corrine has also asked me to send you this reading she found on traditional German clothing and researching your German heritage.
Not only is it a nice overview of traditional German clothing, but it includes lots of research tips and tools for tracing your family’s German lineage!”
(Corrine’s teacher – I think that Corrine deserves extra credit for finding my BLOG and adding to our collective information for my BLOG’s worldwide audience.)
Thank you Corrine (and Mom Michelle) for helping us find more information on Germanic ancestors, and for thinking of letting us know about this website. “German ancestors” is by far one of the most popular topics on my BLOG.
It is fun to share the our enthusiasm for (my favorite hobby) genealogy and to have young people learn the excitement of researching family history and our place in world events.
Also I am adding this web site onto my bibliography for my up-coming Event – “What They Wore When” program that I will be presenting in-person on Saturday, February 3 at 1:30 p.m. for the WBCGS at Rockford Public Library, East Branch, 6685 E State ST, Rockford Illinois. It is also available for you to watch by Zoom at this link:
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZckdOyrqTIrG9IpZ4PRGVwVqoOlb9BuvF_m%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2DYX-FezmrDMy96-YeafLMM5wSzTM1-ZOrA8WhRbI81tcI_kBMYRT3oG4&h=AT32u4Xg4SrL2jVfcuPixJLngTf8Gj9TR5Xq6NKiv5iZipKzpAlQT400_YrCulrkdUDsG02sZnOIUROYIhgmvwi_uHc2ZHQkidmatRQBx1k93tIDRJTu3cuxH69AKO9WOf9P&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT3YaQx588VzKSr49pHQ1umIGNxKkajDsipj3McWedC9BkZg43WWHRGKkX7l3plO-iiK37-QS8bTlWd1rLI9v2s4uVBt-vYL93OWdrZJY1KGg27KWiurDeHGBEycFvInp9flqv58GT720QpvFmZNXosbUyik
20Jan2024
Vicki Ruthe Hahn
Click on the StatelineGenealogyClub.Wordpress.com BLOG Home Page Tab called “Genealogy Helps and Links” – https://statelinegenealogyclub.wordpress.com/genealogy-links-and-electronic-helps/ .
Scroll down to the alphabetically arranged topic ” Adoption – Ancestors and Searching (& Orphan Train Riders):“. I just added lots of new links and resources for how to search for adopted children, birth parents/siblings, and support for Adult Adoptees.
2024Feb16 update:
There is now a link to the WBCGS Winnebago and Boone Counties Genealogical Society Zoom video of my Contemporary Fashion Through The Decades program on Feb. 3, 2024. It is now posted to their Member Access section of their website. Past programs are only available for viewing to members. Annual membership is only $15 and well worth supporting the great programing and genealogy support/projects that WBCGS does:
https://www.wbcgensociety.org/membership.html
https://facebook.com/events/s/contemporary-fashion-through-t/2126828424328867/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2126828424328867?active_tab=about
Both in person and on Zoom.
Program Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZckdOyrqTIrG9IpZ4PRGVwVqoOlb…
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