The Strength of Judson Crawford
Telling a Railroad Story Through Song One of the most rewarding parts of genealogy is finding new ways to share our ancestors’ stories. Census records,… Read More »The Strength of Judson Crawford
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Bringing Judson Foster Crawford’s Story to Life
Can AI turn a genealogy narrative into a documentary? I used Google NotebookLM to create a cinematic video about my great-grandfather, Judson Foster Crawford, using… Read More »Bringing Judson Foster Crawford’s Story to Life
Exploring the Life of Judson Foster Crawford with AI
What if your ancestor’s biography became a podcast? I used Google NotebookLM to create an audio overview of my great-grandfather, Judson Foster Crawford, then paired… Read More »Exploring the Life of Judson Foster Crawford with AI
Judson Foster Crawford – Railroad Man
Walking in My Great-Grandfather’s Footsteps One of the challenges of family history is that our ancestors often leave behind only the bare facts of their… Read More »Judson Foster Crawford – Railroad Man
Friday Find
Two newspapers, one 1907 wedding—and different details in each. Discover what the accounts of Cora Adams and Nelson Crawford’s Dodge City marriage reveal about their… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
Finding newspaper articles today is often as simple as typing a name into a search box. Thirty-five years ago, that wasn’t the case. Back then,… Read More »Friday Find
Friday Find
Have you ever sat in front of a microfilm reader, hand on the crank, slowly scrolling through page after page of newspapers in hopes of… Read More »Friday Find
A Time in the Life of Sarah Ellen (Ralston) Hammond
Her Long Illness As genealogists, we often encounter brief phrases in obituaries that hint at long and difficult stories. One such phrase appears in the… Read More »A Time in the Life of Sarah Ellen (Ralston) Hammond
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Life During the Great Depression When I look at my grandfather, Leon Russel Crawford, during the years of the Great Depression (1930–1940), the records tell… Read More »Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
A Day in the Life of Mary Crawford
Boarding House Keeper in Dodge City — circa 1900 When we think about our ancestors, it is easy to focus on the major events—the marriages,… Read More »A Day in the Life of Mary Crawford