it sure doesn't *seem* like I got a lot of work done today. But good news:
Soon we will be regulars to the IKEA in Tempe. Yay!!
Lately I've been working a lot of our family genealogy. In case you are curious about your family or would like to see some cool stuff, visit these websites:
www.ellisisland.org -you can search passenger logs for people coming through ellis island from all over the world. If you find a relative, you can view a scan of the actual page their name is written on.
www.jewishgen.org -this has a way to search the Ellis Island website by ship. Sometimes you click on a passenger name on the EI website and you go to view the manifest, but it links to the wrong ships' manifest. You can't search by ship name to find the right one on EI, but somebody over at JewishGen figured it out. No, I am definitely not Jewish.
www.familysearch.org - this one is run by the Mormon church. They also have free downloadable software you can use to organize all your info and you use the format in this program to submit your info/changes to their records.
You may think I'm a dork but I bet if you knew my great-great-grandpa was the first hispanic resident in Minnesota you might just think twice. And then you might still think i'm a dork. Ole!
Soon we will be regulars to the IKEA in Tempe. Yay!!
Lately I've been working a lot of our family genealogy. In case you are curious about your family or would like to see some cool stuff, visit these websites:
www.ellisisland.org -you can search passenger logs for people coming through ellis island from all over the world. If you find a relative, you can view a scan of the actual page their name is written on.
www.jewishgen.org -this has a way to search the Ellis Island website by ship. Sometimes you click on a passenger name on the EI website and you go to view the manifest, but it links to the wrong ships' manifest. You can't search by ship name to find the right one on EI, but somebody over at JewishGen figured it out. No, I am definitely not Jewish.
www.familysearch.org - this one is run by the Mormon church. They also have free downloadable software you can use to organize all your info and you use the format in this program to submit your info/changes to their records.
You may think I'm a dork but I bet if you knew my great-great-grandpa was the first hispanic resident in Minnesota you might just think twice. And then you might still think i'm a dork. Ole!
