research tools Archives - Megan Smolenyak https://megansmolenyak.com/tag/research-tools/ genealogical adventurer & storyteller Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:27:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Genealogy Roundup, October 26 https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-october-26-2/ https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-october-26-2/#respond Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:27:24 +0000 https://www.megansmolenyak.com/?p=162489 In this week's Roundup: Recipe epitaphs that are "a tip of the hat to life’s simple joys," girls who met while sailing to the U.S. meet again 75 years later, great new genie tools to play with, and more.

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]]> This woman bakes recipes she finds on gravestone epitaphs: ‘They’re to die for’ – Just love stories like this. 🍪🍪🍪

You just know that when a gutsy woman departs England in 1889 with her 6 kids to emigrate to the US – and leaves her husband behind – that there’s more to the story.

Young Girls Who Met on a Ship Sailing for America 75 Years Ago are Reunited: ‘I could never forget her’

Narrow Down Your Obituary Searches With Obit Magnet – Tara Calishain (@ResearchBuzz ) has done it again! Check out the Obit Magnet, a tool that simplifies the sometimes tedious process of unearthing that obituary you just know is out there!

Playing with palette.fm (free colorizing tool) as recommended by Tara Calishain and liking all the options. This is the “lavender dusk” version. The older woman on the right is Barbara (Matycki) Lukacz, one of my great-great-grandmothers, born in 1855 in Velyki Mosty, Ukraine.

 

Top Photo Credit: Windell Oskay under Creative Commons license

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]]> https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-october-26-2/feed/ 0 Genealogy Roundup, August 17 https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-august-17/ https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-august-17/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:33:38 +0000 https://www.megansmolenyak.com/?p=162381 In this week's Roundup: What bones tell a bioarchaeologist about human life spans in pre-modern times, our ancestors weren't that different from us, happy little search tools, and more.

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]]> Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too – Familiar territory for genealogists: “What some people don’t realize is that low life expectancy at birth for any population usually reflects very high rates of infant mortality.”

The Tombstone House – I mean, at least they left the top halves. 😬

The Awkward 17th-Century Dating Practice That Saw Teens Get Bundled Into Bags – People tend to think of our ancestors as being prudish, but really, they were a lot like us. “one in 10 of every first child born in colonial America was born eight months after marriage”

Happy Little Search Tools – Playing with cool search toys developed by Tara Calishain and wanted to share with my fellow genies! For instance, I used “Time-Sliced News Search” to see how topics ranging from homework (folks have been griping about it since 1909😆) to genetic genealogy have been viewed over time.

Would love it if y’all would experiment with them and share interesting applications & results

Photo Credit: Mani Babbar Photography under Creative Commons license

 

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