And another article I found interesting about starting a family e-newsletter. I would love to do this...
10 E-Newsletter Tips - Family Tree Magazine
10 E-Newsletter Tips - Family Tree Magazine
Friday, November 11, 2011
16 Ways to Leave a Legacy - Family Tree Magazine
Here is an interesting article that I received from Family Tree Magazine about how to preserve your family history, your legacy of research, etc for generations to come.
16 Ways to Leave a Legacy - Family Tree Magazine
16 Ways to Leave a Legacy - Family Tree Magazine
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Here are some images of things that were found when going through old photos, letters, papers, etc. It makes me very aware of the items that I have, maybe you just see it as junk, but it's really not. It is very interested when you find this sort of stuff from your ancestors, maybe it gives you an insight into what their lives were like, what did they think, and what was going on in their life at that time, and so on.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
June 28, 2011
I've been browsing a few genealogy blogs, where people are blogging about their family history and such. It is inspiring to me and so I feel like I need to step it up a bit! LOL
Today I bought the Family Tree Maker 2011 software from Ancestry.com which I think will be of great use to me! I already have a family tree made on ancestry.com. With this software I can do a lot for keeping everything in order and keeping track of everything, but one of the major reasons why I want this software is because it allows you to print family tree charts, books, etc., that you can gift to people. You can also make a book and put it in PDF format to e-mail.
I want to make a printed book and also copy as PDF and send to family members.
Also, last week, I finally took the VHS I had that my mom copied from 8mm, or had someone copy and put to VHS, of a family Christmas with my grandpa (Alfred Young, Sr.) and grandma (Marian Young) and my mom, dad, aunt, uncle and cousin, to be put on to DVD. I am getting 4 extra copies of that DVD as well.
I still need to scan all the photos and newspaper clippings and keepsakes of my grandma's.
I also want to go back to Hazel and talk to her some more about our family and I have some interview questions this time.
I just wish I had more time!
Today I bought the Family Tree Maker 2011 software from Ancestry.com which I think will be of great use to me! I already have a family tree made on ancestry.com. With this software I can do a lot for keeping everything in order and keeping track of everything, but one of the major reasons why I want this software is because it allows you to print family tree charts, books, etc., that you can gift to people. You can also make a book and put it in PDF format to e-mail.
I want to make a printed book and also copy as PDF and send to family members.
Also, last week, I finally took the VHS I had that my mom copied from 8mm, or had someone copy and put to VHS, of a family Christmas with my grandpa (Alfred Young, Sr.) and grandma (Marian Young) and my mom, dad, aunt, uncle and cousin, to be put on to DVD. I am getting 4 extra copies of that DVD as well.
I still need to scan all the photos and newspaper clippings and keepsakes of my grandma's.
I also want to go back to Hazel and talk to her some more about our family and I have some interview questions this time.
I just wish I had more time!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Old scrapbooks and newspaper clippings
I know it's been a while since posting on here! I have some interesting keepsakes, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings, and probably more stuff, that I need to sort through and post on here.
These items are from Marian F. (Bradbury) Young, my grandma, better known as Nanny.
I went through all of the stuff in the box once, but I have not had time go back through it again and sort things out and get some of it better preserved. What I remember about the items that are in that box are there is an old address book that is full of newspaper clippings from obituaries. There was also some stuff from the Kingsville Baptist Chruch. She also had some scrapbooks, one was from high school which has a lot of neat memorabilia in it. She also had some baby scrapbooks that have all the cards that she must have received, and there were also some magazines that were from the 1950's for women that are all about how to take care of your baby, etc.
I am planning on setting up a work station in our basement so that I can spread all of the items out and see what I have. I'll be scanning and copying what I can. I'm going to try to leave the scrapbooks together, depending on how good of shape they are in. I know in one scrapbook that everything must have been put in with scotch tape, all of which is falling out now.
So I hope to be posting more in the near future of what I have! Oh, also, I have an VHS tape of some old videos from the 1970's, of Alfred and Marian and my dad, mom, aunt, uncle and cousin. My mom had these tapes, which were actually on 8mm video tape that she had put onto VHS. I am going to get that put on to DVD and probably make several copies. I will be glad to share the copies with any family member who would like to have a copy. The video consists of a Christmas, and there is a Tractor pull or some kind of tractor parade, and other miscellaneous recordings.
These items are from Marian F. (Bradbury) Young, my grandma, better known as Nanny.
I went through all of the stuff in the box once, but I have not had time go back through it again and sort things out and get some of it better preserved. What I remember about the items that are in that box are there is an old address book that is full of newspaper clippings from obituaries. There was also some stuff from the Kingsville Baptist Chruch. She also had some scrapbooks, one was from high school which has a lot of neat memorabilia in it. She also had some baby scrapbooks that have all the cards that she must have received, and there were also some magazines that were from the 1950's for women that are all about how to take care of your baby, etc.
I am planning on setting up a work station in our basement so that I can spread all of the items out and see what I have. I'll be scanning and copying what I can. I'm going to try to leave the scrapbooks together, depending on how good of shape they are in. I know in one scrapbook that everything must have been put in with scotch tape, all of which is falling out now.
So I hope to be posting more in the near future of what I have! Oh, also, I have an VHS tape of some old videos from the 1970's, of Alfred and Marian and my dad, mom, aunt, uncle and cousin. My mom had these tapes, which were actually on 8mm video tape that she had put onto VHS. I am going to get that put on to DVD and probably make several copies. I will be glad to share the copies with any family member who would like to have a copy. The video consists of a Christmas, and there is a Tractor pull or some kind of tractor parade, and other miscellaneous recordings.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
First recording
I had an idea of taking the voice recording that I got when I went to Hazel Stultz's house in July 2009 to look at some old photos she had. The recording itself is pretty long and I could not upload all of it on here as I wanted to do. So I am taking parts of the recording where Hazel is talking about specific photos and making mini-movies with them showing the photos she is talking about.
Now I am trying to remember, from 2009, what photos that I remember she is talking about, so I may not have the exact photo. But I'm trying do it from memory. I've only created one mini-movie so far, but I hope to make some more.
Now I am trying to remember, from 2009, what photos that I remember she is talking about, so I may not have the exact photo. But I'm trying do it from memory. I've only created one mini-movie so far, but I hope to make some more.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
In the beginning
So, my first post in this blog. I hope to use this blog to write about stuff I am doing in regards to the Young family genealogy. I hope to post about new findings, research, interviews, and other stuff that I come up with. I have a link set on here, I think under my profile, which is to the website I have the family tree on along with lots of photos that I have been able to scan and upload. Please check that website out, and if you have any information to add, it would be appreciated.
I also started this blog because on the website I am not able to upload videos, and since I plan on doing some videos, especially when interviewing family, provided they are o.k. with being taped, and I wanted a place to share the videos.
On this first post, I do have a couple of videos to post, they are kind of long, but would be of interest, I think. These videos were taken at Hazel Stultz's house on July 17, 2009 when me, my dad, and my husband visited her and were looking through lots of family photos and Hazel shares some stories regarding the photographs. I will have to see if I can edit these videos to make them shorter, I was not able to upload either of the videos.
I also started this blog because on the website I am not able to upload videos, and since I plan on doing some videos, especially when interviewing family, provided they are o.k. with being taped, and I wanted a place to share the videos.
On this first post, I do have a couple of videos to post, they are kind of long, but would be of interest, I think. These videos were taken at Hazel Stultz's house on July 17, 2009 when me, my dad, and my husband visited her and were looking through lots of family photos and Hazel shares some stories regarding the photographs. I will have to see if I can edit these videos to make them shorter, I was not able to upload either of the videos.
Recently, I joined a mailing list for the Young name, it's through Rootsweb. I was browsing through the archives and typed in the name Ezekiel Young, who was from Bristol, England, and stowed away on a ship to American where he lived and married and raised a family in Grayson County, VA.
Ezekiel was Alfred F. Young Sr.'s GGGG-Grandfathers (G's = Great).
I had this information in a copy of the family tree that had been compiled by someone named Charles Young in 1964. So I decided to search this name in the archives of this mailing list and I came up with a lot of people who had posted for Ezekiel Young, and I read some of the posts and they seem to be talking about the same person because they relate the same story that I have in the information that was compiled by Charles Young.
Here is a little of what is written by Charles Young about Ezekiel:
Ezekiel was born ca. 1735 in Bristol, England, and came to America around 1751. He fought in the battle of Fort Duquesne where General Edward Braddock was defeated 9 July 1755, and was one of the 459 men out of 1,386 who survived the battle, due to Colonel George Washington's leadership.
Ezekiel was a member of Captain Enoch Osborne's Company, of Montgomery County, VA, during and after the Revolutionary War.
The archives on the mailing list had the same information and I was also able to find this website: http://www.newrivernotes.com/va/swift/herbertbioq.htm which has a roster of participants for men in William Herbert's Company in Lord Dunmore's War (1774). If you click on Roster, you can scroll down and Ezekiel Young is in that roster. And if you click on the New River Notes Home, you can do a search with Ezekiel Young's name and it will show you where on the website his name appears.
One person on the Young mailing list even posted what she had from Ezekiel's Will.
I also just found on the New River Notes website the location of where Ezekiel Young is thought to be buried in Grayson County, VA. http://www.newrivernotes.com/graysoncems/youngezekielcem.htm
That's really cool! So now if I ever happen to be there, I can see if I can find it!
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