Early Life Mary Lela Currey was born on 17 August 1901 in Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas, to Hiram Miles Currey and Winifred Mae “Winnie” Hutchinson.… Read More »ABC Biography: Mary Lela (Currey) Walters
Do you have handwritten family group sheets tucked away in your genealogy files? This week’s Friday Find is a fascinating set of such records documenting… Read More »Friday Find
Have you ever faced the challenge of proving a lineage when a child was born after his father’s death? That is the case with my… Read More »Confirming Relationships
Do you use FamilySearch’s new full-text search feature? If so, you may have noticed that not all records can be accessed from home. From past… Read More »Crawford Land Partition
Somehow I was caught unawares! RootsMagic just released a new version of their genealogy software. While I have not figured out the new features, I… Read More »RootsMagic 11
Have you ever used—or even seen—a Range Index for a section of land? When I began my genealogy journey with Kansas records, I quickly discovered… Read More »Monday’s Diggings
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It’s Saturday Night again – Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is… Read More »Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
The Life of Myrtle Irene Currey Early Years in Kansas Myrtle Irene Currey was born on January 11, 1899, in Pomeroy, Wyandotte County, Kansas. She… Read More »ABC Biography: Myrtle Irene Currey
Today’s find is a letter from Burdette Hall to his uncle. The original of this letter is in the papers belonging to PRston Wells of… Read More »1896 Wells Letter
Do you have handwritten transcriptions tucked away in your genealogy files? While updating the information for my ancestor, Nathaniel Hammond, I stumbled across several references… Read More »Bolton Town Records