An error in a court house record could be a bit of spilled ink or a misspelled name. What happens to research when the clerk of the county court gets confused and says the wrong person is dead? How far down the research rabbit hole does that misinformation send a …
On one of my recent cemetery adventures I spotted a symbol I haven’t seen on too many markers. It was the lily of the valley. I’ve always like the slightly old-fashioned scent of the flower, but I wondered what meaning it held. Did someone mistake the lily of the valley …
When I opened up the April 2021 issue of The NYG&B Record (152:160) I saw Myra Vanderpool Gormley has passed away. You may have encountered Myra as a journalist or one of her books on Family Tree Maker, Cherokees, etc. Her contributions to advancing genealogy are in her obituary, available …
Darn it, why is everyone named John Pryor? It’s common to run into a family where they lacked creativity when naming children. Haven’t you found in your family tree a grandma, mother, and child who all share the same name? I was looking at a man named John Pryor in …
County of Los Angeles Bureau of Public Assistance, Belvedere Dist Professional Staff August 17, 1961#lacounty #socialworkers. Photograph in the collection of Vanessa Wood.
