Happy spring everyone!

I’ve been busy with college courses, web design clients & job hunting.  The little bit of genealogy research I’ve collected is Estacaille, maybe a tiny bit of Braniff and Judas.I’ve been fortunate the last couple of months to have received a CD of old Judas/Baker photos collected by a researching cousin who has since passed on.  I’ve also received an old photo album from an aunt in the same branch. I’m working towards scanning in the photos, but it’s taking a bit of work as the album pages are usually bigger than the scanning bed of my multi-function printer/scanner/fax.

I’ve just finished uploading my latest GEDCOM.  As far as I can see, the links from the media/photos/histories still works without any errors.  Let me know if you come across any errors, including any errors in the “living” flag. I’m constantly on the watch for this in the site and my offline database.

I updated the database software about a month ago.  No big surprises there, just minor adjustments.  I want to work on the actual database site design, but don’t look for it too soon as I’ll need to put on my thinking cap and learn how to customize the design coding.

S.

 

I received a surprise in the mail yesterday – the copy of Johann Judas’s death certificate I ordered a month ago.  I wasn’t expecting to get it so fast – thank you Wisconsin Dept of Vital Statistics!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide me with the name of Johann’s parents like I was REALLY  hoping. But it does confirm the birth/death info and place of burial.

I can’t post an actual copy of the certificate, but I’ve transcribed it. You can view the transcription here: http://www.estacaille.org/genealogy/docs/CloozDeath_WI-Judas-Johann1908.pdf

 

Whats new? Not much. Between working full-time at my new job (thankfull that I have a job in this economy) and working evenings on client websites & slowly improving my health problems from my last job, well, I haven’t done much genealogy research. Yesterday I mailed away an application to Wisconsin state vital records to see if I can get death records for my 3rd great-grandfather Johann Judas. Because I am asking for an uncertified record, the form states that any response can take up to 6 months. Fingers crossed that it comes in just a month or two.

Today, I’ve uploaded the latest version of the database software, which fortunately fixed a problem I was having with Google maps.  I’ve also uploaded some new Judas photos including the obituary info for my grand-uncle Raymond Judas.  You can check out any new additions by visiting the “What’s New” page.

I haven’t yet been brave and upload a new version of my GEDCOM – I’m just a bit worried that importing it will cause my media/document links to fail. 

If you haven’t checked out the Estacaille Ning social site, please come by.  We’ve got new members in the last month or so.


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