Genealogy and the City of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan

        1. Genealogy vs. Name Matching

              How to be a Genealogist

        2. Using the Grand Rapids Public Library

            Yes, the Internet IS a library. 

        3. Dewey Decimal vs Genealogy

            How to understand the Dewey Decimal System as it applies to genealogy.

        4. Primary vs. Secondary Sources

             How to understand the importance of source quality

        5. Footnoting vs Common Sense

            I hate footnotes. How to do footnotes easily..

       6. Photographers Identify age of photo by identifying the photographer

       7. RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: City of Grand Rapids

              Just started. This contains family  information only about people mentioned on this website such as some of the photographers, previous owners of land occupied by cemeteries, schools and parks, Mr. Hefner.

       8. RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: White Cemetery, Walker Twp, Kent Co, MI

        Family information about the people, mostly neighbors of Milo White, who are buried in this 1850's farm cemetery.

       9. RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Fulton Cemetery, Grand Rapids Twp, Kent Co, MI,

        Just started.  Will include family information about EARLY burials ONLY.

     10. History of Language, predicting spelling variations. Just in my head.

      11. Putting my money where my mouth is. Oh, if I only had enough money to fill my mouth. I'd be rich!

             My mother's father's family - http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=babschase  English
             My mother's mother's family -http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=babscole  Pioneers.
             My dad's family -  http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=babsmark Dutch

 

I have tried to impact every source with corrections or comments so everything on this site is copywrited. The information may be used for your project but the source must be cited.

 

 
 
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