Playing With a Full Deck

“Playing with a full deck!” Common entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the ‘Ace of Spades…’ To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards instead. Yet, since most games required 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb […]

As a reminder…make copies of vital records. Keep the originals at home and use the copies as working copies. You don’t want to misplace or lose the original in some distant library or archive that you traveled to. That goes for your charts also. Have a back up somewhere.

A reminder… When you hit a brick wall, stop and think. You can’t always go at something straight on. You need to think outside the box. Sometimes you need to use the back door, the trap door or the chimney. Sometimes/many times, you may never find what you want. You may need to use as much […]

Check American Ancestors of NEHGS homepage… www.americanancestors.org Click “The bookstore” They have a list of remaindered books (extras etc.) which they have for sale. There are over 600 listed. The list includes many states, countries, counties, you name it. There might be something of interest. Some of these books could be listed on the Internet […]

President’s Message, April 23, 2018

Hopefully you will have a productive year of searches and travels. Remember that everything is not on the Internet. Most of us who have been doing this for 30, 40 or going on 50 years plus started before computers or the Internet. We had no choice but to write letters with SASEs (self-addressed stamped envelopes), travel […]