Posted in Articles, Larimer County on Jul 12th, 2009
by Carol Stetser- Research Coordinator
Larimer County Genealogical Society
Newspapers are an important, often underutilized, source of genealogical information. The newspapers from Larimer County are no exception and are filled with fascinating information about local people and places. Unfortunately, few of these newspapers have been indexed, and it is usually necessary to have at least an approximate [...]
Posted in Front Page, News, Society on Jul 10th, 2009
Cartridge World is now offering Society members a 10% membership discount on recycled inkjet or laser toner cartridges. The discounts are offered at the following local participating stores:
2614 S. Timberline Road, Suite 105 in Fort Collins next to King Soopers on Timberline at Drake. Telephone: 970-484-4465.
or
270 E. 29th Street in Loveland next to Golf USA [...]
Posted in Front Page, News on Jul 9th, 2009
Test your readiness with this printable Genealogy Logic Puzzle. Answers are on the second page so don’t peek. Good luck!
Posted in Front Page, News on Jul 9th, 2009
Last September The Fort Collins Historical Society launched it’s first website. It is full of excellent resources for Fort Collins history, notably an extensive bibliography of Fort Collins, Larimer County and Colorado history books and they are adding to it all the time. The site is at:
Posted in Articles on Jul 8th, 2009
Recommended by the National Genealogical Society
Standards For Sound Genealogical Research
Remembering always that they are engaged in a quest for truth, family history researchers consistently—
record the source for each item of information they collect.
test every hypothesis or theory against credible evidence, and reject those that are not supported by the evidence.
seek original records, or reproduced images [...]
By Kimberly Powell, About.com: Genealogy
Pictures are a wonderful way to document graveyards, from scenic views of the cemetery, to inscriptions of individual tombstones. It isn’t always as easy as it seems, however, to achieve sharp, clear photographs of stones that may be centuries old. That old stone may be easy enough to read when you’re [...]
by Carol Stetser
Like most family historians, I’d always felt that I was using newspapers effectively. After all, I’d looked up literally dozens of obits and marriage and birth announcements. Recently, however, I’ve come to realize that historic (and even modern) newspapers offer a whole lot more. Since they were written for contemporary readers, at the [...]
By Julie Miller, CG
The year is almost over, and already there have been numerous natural disasters that have hit close to home: the tornadoes in Northern Colorado, the floods in the Midwest, and the wildfires in California.
Watching the people on the news who have been affected has been heart-wrenching. Many folks have lost everything. Some [...]
by LCGS Researcher Carol Stetser
For many family historians finding a copy of their ancestors’ names on a ship’s passenger list is high on their list of priorities. With so many passenger records online, it would seem that finding an immigrant ancestor should be fairly simple, especially for those who landed in the later 19th century [...]
by LCGS Researcher Carol Stetser
I imagine that every family historian has said, or at least heard someone else say, “I can’t find my ancestors in the records; some of the records must have been lost.” Although at various times and places, many records definitely were lost, sometimes researchers assume records are lost, when really the [...]
