Saturday, October 20, 2012

Marvelous new links to family records!

I am having a wonderful time in www.familysearch.org - FamilyTree. It is awesome that I can link online records to members of my family tree. This is enabling me provide records that prove the identity of individuals - a very needed feature for genealogy proof! See some of our family records I have been adding to www.findagrave.com:

Bruno Vassel I - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50983431
Elisabeth "Else" (Leist) Vassel - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99274223
Dieter Vassel - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99293259
Liselotte "Lotte" (Kipke) Vassel - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99293786
Helen (Shoemaker) Elmer - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99212238
S. Lewis Elmer - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99214453
Sarah M. (Perry) Erety - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99115374
George Erety, Jr. - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99093225
William Erety - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99115648
Amanda Conway Erety - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99116246
Ada Erety Roberts - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99175700
John Greble Roberts - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99176855
Harold Greble Roberts - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99189174
Horace Brewster Shoemaker - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99195467
Mary Elizabeth Erety Shoemaker - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99198983

There are so many other tombstone pictures to add to www.findagrave.com. It just takes hours of time which I am grateful to have!

I am also finding many records in www.familysearch.org that I can link to family members in FamilyTree. Here are some I have been excited to find online:

Bruno Vassel I - death certificate - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12400-96101-97?cc=1307272
Leon Gustav Vassel - baptism record in Berlin, Germany - my great grandfather - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NF3R-4ZR
Stanislaus Henri Vassel - baptism record in Berlin, Germany - my great uncle-
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NF3K-KGM
George Araghty - 1811 record of Interment in Philadelphia - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11882-31191-96?cc=1320976
Amanda Erety - death certificate Philadelphia - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKQ7-92S
Adeline Shoemaker - death certificate Philadelphia - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDL9-X5X

There are about 150 Philadelphia death certificates I can find and attach to FamilyTree to verify these ancestors. Also, I am finding other websites with good information such as the following:

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - famous German poet and my 3c7r - http://www.fundkatalog.de/2011/02/friedrich-gottlieb-klopstock.html

Johann Gottfried Auerbach - Austrian painter and etcher and my 2c8r - http://www.answers.com/topic/johann-gottfried-auerbach

HILL FAMILY LINK:

Here is the marriage record of Keith K. Hill's parents.

Marriage record of Archie Hill and Arnetta Davis - http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=15268

I marvel at the wonderful records that are becoming available online, and the power in the new FamilyTree to link records to family members and really establish our lineages with proof. It is very exciting!!!