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Follow Friday: Place Standardization and GPS
Apr 9th
Two website that I’ve found extremely useful in the last few days have been GPS Visualizer and the new FamilySearch StandardFinder. These are both gems!
GPS Visualizer
GPS Visualizer is super simple to use. Just add the address, city, state, whatever and it will bring it up on a map – Google or Yahoo. It not only finds the correct addresses but GPS coordinates as well.
StandardFinder
StandardFinder lets you get that defined location. Genealogists love details. We thrive on it! Place names are commonly broken down into the following: city, county, state (province), country. So Missoula, Montana (where I’m from) would be broken down to Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States. Where StandardFinder comes in is if you don’t know the full place name. Like I said…a gem!
Hopefully these help you out as much as they have me!
Teaser:
Stay tuned for next Friday because I have one that’s going to blow your socks off!
Vogel Center Cemetery fun facts
Mar 25th
There are times when researching can actually be fun. Sure, I love finding out names, birth dates, etc. but genealogy is so much more. Today was just one of those fun times.
Believe it or not, it all started with me updating my new gallery. I’m trying to move everything over to nextgen gallery (a WordPress plugin) and was adding descriptions so I had to open up RootsMagic v4 to get the information that I needed. Since I just switched from Legacy to RootsMagic, I’m still trying to learn everything available to me. One is adding the GPS coordinates just not for the place name but the place detail. More >
Tombstone Tuesday – 23 March 2010
Mar 23rd
This Tombstone Tuesday brings an unknown. Somebody (I wish I knew who) provided me with this photo of an urn. I’m having problems reading it. The only thing provided with the photo was “schoterhof”. Does that mean anything?
So genealogy detectives, the game is afoot. Who is this missing relative?
Update 8 May 2010:
Along with the help of Henk Doddema, we’ve been able to figure out that her name was “Gonnie” Doddema. She died in 2002 and was cremated. Her urn is kept at the Yarden Crematorium Schoterhof in Heerenveen, Friesland, Netherlands. She was married to an Oosterwerff but we have no further details. Gonnie appears to be a nickname; again nothing concrete.
Please keep us updated on the mystery of Gonnie Doddema.
Maria Doddema (McGinty) (1925-2010)
Mar 1st
Maria Doddema (McGinty) passed away on February 5, 2010. Her daughter, Holly McGinty Kling provides the eulogy below:
February 17, 2010
Dear Mom
Current mood: crushed
Category: LifeDear Mom,
I’m certainly going to miss you. I can’t believe you’re really gone. You’ll always live in my heart and I’ll always have the memories. I will always have you in my life, you will be right beside me, even if I can’t see you. I consider myself to be a lucky woman, as I had your love for 55 years. Some daughters aren’t that fortunate to have that love or to have their mothers as long as I did. What gives me comfort is that you passed away knowing how much your two grown daughters loved you. You knew how much your only granddaughter loved you and how proud you were of her with her aspirations of being a nurse anestheist. I’m glad that we were all by your side so you wouldn’t be scared. Damn this is so difficult to write when tears are blurring my vision.
For those of you who didn’t know my mom, let me tell you a little about her life. More >
Wordless Wednesday 24 Feb 2010
Feb 24th
This really isn’t as wordless as I would like but some background is most likely necessary for these photos especially considering this is for genealogy purposes.
It’s Christmas Day 1994. I was in the United States Air Force Basic Training Camp at Lackland Air Force Base located outside of San Antonio, Texas. Our TI (training instructor) was ever so kind enough to let us go to the Base Exchange (BX) so we could buy needed items such as soap, etc. Several in my flight knew about the little photo booth located there so we all made notecards for our loved ones since we weren’t allowed to make phone calls at that time.
I think the photos themselves describe how I was feeling that day; being gone from my wife of only a year and our newborn son, only 3 months old.
