iHCPL Genealogy 67 68 69

Diana Steinman, Maud Marks Branch October 20, 2009


Genealogy

iHCPL #67 Exercise:

Question: Have you studied your genealogy in the past? If so, what advice do you have for those new to genealogical researching? If you have not begun researching, list at least three steps you would take when beginning your research?

Answer: Yes I have researched my family. Often I would look up a few things and I would be so intrigued by the links that I forgot to note the information I found first and the source. Then at other times I would look up different sides of my family at the same web source and then not write down the information, so I would confuse the results like the towns from Austria, Ukraine, Russia and Romania with different sides of the family.

On my birthday last year I took a leap of faith and looked up father’s family through the National Charity Leagues online newsletter contact information. The newsletter was a few years old but I sent an email to the contact from Indiana. Within two days I received an email from a relative who was contacted by the newsletter. This person forwarded my email to another member of the family that had been doing the family tree for years. Within four days I found out about more than 50 relatives living and dead.

Genealogy #68 iHCPL

I researched the oldest grave at Glennwood Cemetery in Houston TX.

It is from 1871, Captain Joseph Aiken who died in Galveston and was born in Geneva NY.

My cousin on my father’s side went to Queens NY Mt. Lebanon Cemetery and wrote done birth, death dates of the Liebross family. She contacted the Hebrew Free Grave Society and found the death date of my grandfather, November 9, 1959. I did not know his name until I talked with her a year ago. Max Liebross.

I have talked with my 85 yr old Aunt from California about my family history. I asked her about my grandmother (her mother-in-law), grandfather and their siblings. She gave me the first names and I found a record of my grandfather’s family in the 1920 census of New York.

Diana Steinman


IHCPL genealogy #69

I searched Heritage Quest for information on Pinelawn Cemetery on Long Island, NY. I chose to search the book section of the database, under place names. I found a book printed in 1928, called Long Island, The Sunrise Homeland. I looked at the index which had cities or unincorporated villages.

Pinelawn was listed. They described the cemetery and described another name it has gone by, Catholic Cemetery of the Resurrection.