Finishing Up US: Migration Patterns
By Shannon Combs-Bennett, Student Well, US: Migration Patterns was an amazing course. I have enjoyed each course I’ve written about, but this one really made an impression on me. Lots…
20th Century Migrations
By Shannon Combs-Bennett, Student Once again there was a lot of great information put forward in Module 5 and 6 of the US: Migration Patterns course. However, I found the…
Some Thoughts On Researching US Occupations
Each individual researcher’s quest to understand their ancestor’s “life’s work” will have its own twists and turns. There is not one record or one repository that will give you all …
Working for the Railroad: A Few Tips
Spending this Labor Day holiday weekend researching your family tree? Good! Consider learning more about the occupations of your ancestors. For many, railroad jobs figure prominently in their…
Go West!
By Shannon Combs-Bennett, Student Through the next two modules in the course US: Migration Patterns we continue to travel west across the US. In Module 2 we were in Colonial…