By Carolyn L. Barkley
I am beginning this week’s article with a major confession. Despite all the genealogical lectures I have attended in which speakers have discussed the research value of tax records, I am a late-comer to their use. I am now a believer having had several opportunities to use tax records recently. I will [...]
By: Carolyn L. Barkley
I majored in Spanish in college – what was I thinking! Forty years later I realize that I would have made a much better history major. My research emphasizes this fact daily. It is impossible to do quality genealogical research without a keen desire to place our ancestors in their historical [...]
By: Carolyn L. Barkley
My father was an English teacher and a poet, so writing well was a necessity in my house as I was growing up. I graduated from high school in the 1960s which means that I was taught phonics in elementary school. I’m one of the dwindling few who actually know how to [...]
By Carolyn L Barkley
I’m celebrating the upcoming Labor Day holiday by revising an article about occupations and their use in genealogical research that appeared here in August 2008. Enjoy your holiday!
Labor Day symbolizes the end of the “carefree days” of summer. Contrary to its name, the holiday is often seen as a day of rest, [...]