Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash I haven’t blogged in a while. For two years, I put this blog on private as I’d no longer had the willpower to push out blog posts the way that I did six years ago. I write a little more about this in my blog post Why Do You Do… ? Recently, I have revamped my blog. I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’. I also removed posts I wrote just for the sake of posting content and main taining an audience, even when inauthentic to me. It means more to me that others feel the value and quality of what I share rather than the quantity. I am not sure how often I will post, all I know is when the inspiration and curiosity strike, that’s when it will occur. My intention for this blog is to lead with more spontaneity than usual, structured content, along with transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability to whatever degree feels right. My inte...
Last week on Friday, I watched a video on the Genealogy TV channel about Ancestry's Updates featuring Crista Cowan-The Barefoot Genealogist.
One thing that she mentioned is the WWII Young Men's Draft cards.
"We entered into a collaboration with the National Archives about six and a half years ago. To all get their Young Men's Draft cards digitized, indexed, put online. FamilySearch collaborated with us on that. So, I think something like 300,000 volunteers helped indexed these records. And as of this week, they are finished. They are all online. " - Crista Cowan
Before I go any further into this topic, I want to say thank you to the volunteers for taking the time to index these records.
After that, I immediately searched for my paternal grandfather, Fletcher Pearson. Then I found him.
I was about to make another amazing discovery. I searched for my paternal great-grandfather, Anthony T Armstead. There I discovered what his middle name was as well as his wife, Clara.
I was ecstatic. I never knew what the first initial of their name could be. I learned that Anthony's middle name was Tony and Clara's middle name was Loretta. This was very interesting to find out because the nickname for Anthony is Tony. Clara's middle name is Loretta. The namesake for Loretta came from her paternal grandmother, Loretta Baker.
Do you have any amazing finds or discoveries? Leave a comment below and tell me about it.
Thanks for reading,
One thing that she mentioned is the WWII Young Men's Draft cards.
"We entered into a collaboration with the National Archives about six and a half years ago. To all get their Young Men's Draft cards digitized, indexed, put online. FamilySearch collaborated with us on that. So, I think something like 300,000 volunteers helped indexed these records. And as of this week, they are finished. They are all online. " - Crista Cowan
Before I go any further into this topic, I want to say thank you to the volunteers for taking the time to index these records.
After that, I immediately searched for my paternal grandfather, Fletcher Pearson. Then I found him.
I was about to make another amazing discovery. I searched for my paternal great-grandfather, Anthony T Armstead. There I discovered what his middle name was as well as his wife, Clara.
I was ecstatic. I never knew what the first initial of their name could be. I learned that Anthony's middle name was Tony and Clara's middle name was Loretta. This was very interesting to find out because the nickname for Anthony is Tony. Clara's middle name is Loretta. The namesake for Loretta came from her paternal grandmother, Loretta Baker.
Do you have any amazing finds or discoveries? Leave a comment below and tell me about it.
Thanks for reading,
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