Thanks to Ginger Smith of Genealogy by Ginger’s Blog but via Facebook this time, I just read some articles at The Philatelic Genealogy Website.
A new post there is “Missing Person Postcard” about a Samuel Miller, who disappeared from Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA in 1914. Can you help? “Where did he go and what happened to him?”
I’m heading for RootsTech, the big genealogy and family history conference in Salt Lake City, Utah next week. A good number of the conference sessions will be streamed live free and, if it’s like last year, there will be breaking news and lots of good discussion about the conference sessions onTwitter.
To watch the streamed Rootstech sessions, go to Rootstech.org
And you can watch those #rootstech tweets right here on the Postcard Craze sidebar if you like.
For those like myself who are interested in using postcards in their family history endeavors, here is a link to a lovely illustrated article recently posted by Brenda Foster on “Two years in the Life of Ruth Lewick 1913-1914” over at Life in Michigan.
There was a nice article, “Weston-super-Mare through Postcards”, Part One by Colin Middle, published in the Weston-super-Mare & District [England] Family History Society’s journal, Buckets & Spades, issue 78, November, 2012.
The same article is now on-line for all to read on the Weston super-Mare & District Society’s website (and there’s a .pdf copy there too to save, if you like). Just follow the link above.
If any of your family ever lived or holidayed near Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England, you might even recognize someone in the postcards shown. Or you may find you already have a Jacksons Faces seaside holiday card in your own collection.
I recall a happy Sunday at Weston-super-Mare myself not too many years back. I walked (and ate) on the shore, feeling a little homesick for my own Vancouver on the sea. But that soon passed, as by a happy chance there was a collectable show nearby on that day, and I found myself looking at (and yes, buying) postcards – some originally posted all the way from home in British Columbia, Canada.
Here are a couple of other sites with Weston-super-Mare postcards:
Postcards of the Past – Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare on Old Postcards
Here is something a bit different today. I’m posting a midi file with the ‘Music of My Ancestors’ as part of Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings’ Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Hope this works!
If you click on this link, you should hear a music box tune generated over at P22 Music Text Composition Generator from a list of the surnames of many of my children’s ancestors. I think it sounds quite lovely, like an Aeolian message. (My dad, who was a musician, would think this was clap trap though.)
ADAMS, BINNIE, CALDER, CARMICHAEL, CUTMORE, DERHAM, EDWARDS, GILCHRIST,HAMILTON, HEELEY, IRWIN, KINGSLEY, LEES, LIVINGSTON, MOFFAT, PLAYER, POLLOCK, RODGERS, ROGERS, RYDBERG,SAGGERS, SCOTT, STAINES, TRIPP, WEBB, WHITE, WOOD, ZETTERBERG
And just because this is my postcard website, here is a postcard showing one of these ancestors, Walter Scott, my grandfather, as A Young Canuck. This 1906 card is one of the reasons I’m interested in fostering more use of postcards in genealogy. It’s the only evidence I’ve ever had that he visited his WOOD/WOODMAN cousins on Rhode Island in the USA. And what a sweet bit of evidence it is.
