Family History Tracing

Obituary Sunday: Friedrich Perutz 1918

2012-02-12T19:45:00.000-08:00

Friedrich Perutz was a distant relative on my mother side. He was related to the great grandfather of my mother. He was born in 1868 in Prague, and passed away on 1 April 1918 in Prague. From the above I believe he also worked in the Bruders Perutz Textile Company out of Prague.

He was married to Ida Elias, and the had Felix Perutz, Lilly Perutz, and Edith Perutz.

New Online Resource: LackawannaCounty Online Access

2012-02-10T22:27:00.000-08:00

About a year ago I made a post on Ancestry.com forums asking about a marriage date for a distant relative. Two weeks ago I received an email that a reply was posted to that message with a date for the marriage along with the parents names. I did not think to much of it at the time, figured that they kind person went to the courthouse.

I would usually go to PAGENWEB for Lackawanna County but that only had records till about 1920 that were listed. One day I decided to poke around the Ancestry.com forums for Lackawanna County and thats were I found this little gem.

Lackawanna County Public Access is available on with Internet Explorer but it contains Marriage Records from 1885-Present, Marriage Index 1885-Present, Wills Index 1878-Present, and I believe Birth/Death Records.

I have only had the time to search the marriage license's at this time.

LackwannaCounty.org Announcement

On initial install i had an error reporting that "Setup.exe" could not be found. Look on your desktop for the LHA install file and it will install fine. Besides that have fun and see what you can find for your families

Ancestry Hints: Media Questions.

2011-12-18T20:11:00.000-08:00

I have been using the Ancestry.com trial period for about 10 days out of the 14 mostly for the Ancestry hints. As stated earlier I have full access to AncestryLibrary edition from my house but that does not work with hints. My use of the trial period was to test out the Ancestry hints and then download them to my FTM 2012.

Also as stated in an earlier post I had about 500 hints for about 2600 individuals in my tree. There would probably be more but I have noticed that they dont "get" hints unless I view them in the web view, or possibly in FTM 2012. I have not had the time to click on every person in my tree in either formats to see if there are any hints available.

Back to the main point of this was talking about Media connected to the hints. With each hint there is usually a type of media that is associated with it. For example if you get a hint for the 1930 census record for an individual then that means he/she was found in the census.

My question as I have not been able to figure this out, or maybe its a settings issue is this. If you select a hint and state that its valid, and update you tree with the sources. I know that the source is added to your person in the tree, but does the media also get attached, is it downloaded?

Now using FTM 2012 if you have connected hints and then did a sync with Ancestry.com does that download the source media or does it just provide a link to that media that would be disconnected if you did not have access to Ancestry.com on a paid account?

Is there a way to match all sources with the documents/pictures ect, and then download them all to your hard drive? I would rather have all the documents locally on my drive that I can then connect or just have to reference later on.

Share posts with Google+

2011-12-12T16:01:00.000-08:00

Today it was announced over at Blogger Buzz that they have now allowed direct sharing of posts to Google+ from Blogger.

To share a post with Google+ all you have to do is:

1. Make sure you Google Profile is linked with your Blogger account.

After publishing your post you will be presented with a a share box asking if you would like to share it with Google+. The share box will contain a snippit of your post and then you can share it with your circles.

Update: I had to manually share this post, but you should check under your Settings, Posts/Comments and make sure Sharing is set to YES. Mine was defaulted to No.

Vote for my Daughters School

2011-12-08T23:51:00.001-08:00

This is the last day to vote folks so I am posting this everywhere. My daughters school is in a competition to win 50k from Clorox for the Clorox Power a Bright Future.

Her school (DISCOVERY, SAN MARCOS) is currently in first place at 122,000 votes, but second place is catching up. Second place got some 10k votes today. And with only 1 day left I am doing everything I can to get the word out there to vote for my daughters school.

Sorry if you are getting spammed on Twitter or Facebook or Google+ this will be the last day (Friday) to vote so you should not hear anything except when my daughter's school wins of course.

Two ways to vote:

Text to vote: Text clorox3742 to 44144 (SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW PLEASE)

Second way to vote is via the website, its a little hard to login, and requires registration, do not use your Facebook account to setup the registration. No emails are sent to your email account to "verify" or activate. You just put in your email address, phone number (I used my work :), and your email address.

http://www.powerabrightfuture.com/gallery/detail/?nid=725

That link will bring you strait to DISCOVERY, SAN MARCOS link to vote.

Thanks everyone.....

Ancestry Trial and Hints

2011-12-08T23:04:00.001-08:00

I decided to give Ancestry.com the trial period and see what I could find out. Currently showing 500 hints in a database of 2300 people. Not sure if that is good or bad, or if it has had the chance to find hints on everybody in the database.

Overall I made a lot of connections to Ancestry Tree's and a few census records here and there. Add in a few SSDI's and we would be good. I think I spent about 2 hours on it today, and I knocked it down from 500 to about 484. Somewhere along the way I think I gained more hints, so I would guess that I hit about 50 hints today to be on the safe side.

Most of the hints were accurate with about 3 that were off. I did notice that it doubled a family in my tree, think that is mostly my mistake when verifying the data. I am thinking its going to take a lot longer then the trial period to get through my 500 or so hints, but it will be worth it in the long run. I have it setup to do monthly world access if I do need it to go past the 14 days.

The only real question that I have is that if you do use the "hints" and it find say a census record does it download the media that is connected to it or is it only attached via the online tree? If it does not get downloaded I think that it would not be all the useful. I like to be able to look at documents later on. And if I have to back track through Ancestry.com to find out where I got some sort of information for one of my ancestors I may get tired quickly.

If I am doing it wrong and there is a way to have the media downloaded please let me know so I can make the necessary changes.

Ancestry.com: Login with Facebook

2011-12-08T16:33:00.001-08:00

Not sure if this is something new, as it is the first time I have seen it when logging into Ancestry.com. I decided to set it up and give it a try. When I logged in via Facebook, I had to login also at Ancestry.com to link up the two accounts.

I guess this could be easier in the long run to minimize username/passwords to remember. From what it says when linking that no information will be shared between Ancestry and Facebook. I am not sure how this can or will be used in the future but wanted to let everyone know that its possibly new.

Ancestry Hints in FTM 2012

2011-12-07T22:00:00.000-08:00

I have been trying to figure out if there is an easy way to locate "hints" in FTM 2012, so far all I can see is that you have to look at each person to see if there are any hints. If you upload your tree to Ancestry and use it there, it will provide a page for all of your hints.

One thing I noticed about the Ancestry Tree is that you have to view your tree for it to discover hints. I am not sure if that is the way it is supposed to occur or not. I thought that once uploaded it would basically do the searching for you and provide the list. I had to view each member of my tree (2255 people) to find out that I have at current 419 hints. I probably missed a few of my family members doing the search this way but its a way to get it work.

I was hoping that in FTM 2012 there would be a similar page, or tab that you could see all the hints for everyone in your database. I have been using Family Tree Builder from MyHeritage, and I like the Smart Matching. Once you add someone to your database it automatically checks to see if there is a match and provides the little icon, but FTB also has the "Smart Matching" tab so you can see all your matches at once and not have to go person to person to check if you have a match.

I would not think that it would be that hard to implement this, and would love to have it added to FTM 2012. On a side note I also heard that your "hints" might not match up between the online tree and your FTM 2012 tree, which makes it all the more confusing to me. If anyone can confirm this or let me know if I am wrong that would be great.

Updated Titles at Family Search for December

2011-12-07T17:28:00.001-08:00

During the first week of December FamilySearch has added or updated 27 databases, averages out to about almost 4 a day. I hope they keep the pace up with all the updates. Below is the 27 that are new/updated.
Title

Spain, Consular Records of Emigrants, 1808-1960 *7 Dec 2011Browse Images
Massachusetts, Death Index, 1970-2003 *7 Dec 20112,037,187
Portugal, Aveiro, Testaments, 1900-1936 *7 Dec 2011Browse Images
Portugal, Aveiro, Passport Registers, 1882-1965 *7 Dec 2011Browse Images
Wisconsin, Death Index, 1959-1997 *7 Dec 20111,629,093
Costa Rica, Civil Registration, 1860-1975 *7 Dec 2011Browse Images
Portugal, Porto, Catholic Church Records, 1582-1908 *7 Dec 2011Browse Images
Italy, Ravenna, Ravenna, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 *7 Dec 2011Browse Images
Wisconsin, Birth Index, 1820-1907 *7 Dec 2011985,659
California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985 *7 Dec 20114,879,253
Minnesota, Birth Index, 1935-2002 *7 Dec 20114,267,629
Louisiana, Orleans Parish Vital Records, 1910, 1960 *7 Dec 2011Browse Images
Minnesota, Clay County, School Census Records, 1909-1962 *6 Dec 2011Browse Images
Idaho, Cassia County Records, 1879-1960 *6 Dec 2011Browse Images

Working with Family Tree Maker 2012

2011-12-06T22:03:00.001-08:00

I have been wanting to start using Family Tree Maker 2012 ever since I heard about the Tree Sync, I had the beta version but till tonight had not purchased the software. Last time I checked I saw that you could only order it via CD and then wait for it to show up. That kind of put me off on ordering (I like instant gratification on purchases I guess)

Tonight I decided to take another look at the software and noticed that they now have the "Download" option for the software. It was also 10$ off, so I got it for 29$, no taxes. The download was 530 Mb, and took about 5 minutes to download, and then from there it proceeded to install. On initial boot up, it required an patch download which was also pretty quick. Other's have already posted about the patch for FTM 2012 so no need to repeat. One it was up and running I was able to re-sync my tree that was currently on Ancestry.com.

From there I went and added the new names that I have in my other database (Family Tree Builder) will probably be working with both of them side by side. My next move will be to use the 14 day free trial on Ancestry.com. I wish that I would be able to use my AncestryLibrary account that I have at work to connect to the hints. If anyone knows of how to default of Library instead of Ancestry.com please let me know.

Family Tree Builder updated 5.1.0.5365

2011-11-29T21:23:00.001-08:00

Family Tree Builder has been updated to version 5.1.0.5365. On start up everything looks the same, nothing was shouting "NEW" to me. As it looks to be a just incremental update it is mostly minor fixes. I have tried to search the MyHeritage website, and also did some searching via Google but was unable to find out any concrete information about what this update is. I was hoping for some sort of changelog, but this is mostly on par with updates that come out with FTB.

After jumping on the forums for FTB over at MyHeritage I did find a few people asking about the update. Some where having issues installing the update, and a few were asking what the update was for. As far as I can tell from the comments its a bug fix update. I would have liked to have seen what bug fixes were squashed with this update, maybe soon we will see a changelog.

Surname Saturday: Jeiteles

2011-11-26T22:40:00.001-08:00

Surname: Jeiteles

Surname Meaning: Unknown.

Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia, Prague is first appearance of surname.

Location of my Hellers: Prague

Spelling Variations: Unknown

Other Notes: Was able to obtain book: "Long forgotten events from Empirical Austria" which contains notes about family members of the Jeiteles along with Family Tree's with birth and death dates. Have not had a chance to verify if all information is accurate.

This is also one of my main family lines on my Maternal side. Jakob Jeiteles is my 7th generation great grandfather.

Descendants report:

1. Jakob Jeiteles was born in 1782 and died on Apr. 1, 1842. He marriedR ebekka Pick. Rebekka was born in 1790 and died in 1857.

Children of Jakob Jeiteles and Rebekka Pick
i. 2. Ignaz Jeiteles was born in 1811 and died in 1886.
ii. 3. Sophie Jeiteles was born on Sep. 18, 1813 and died on Mar. 25, 1853.
iii. 4. Michael Jeiteles was born in 1814 and died in 1870.
iv. 5. Marie Jeiteles was born in 1820 and died on Jan. 20, 1890 in Prague, Czech Republic.
v. 6. Joseph Jeiteles was born in 1820 and died on Jun. 30, 1889.
vi. 7. Hermann Jeiteles was born in 1822 and died in 1909.
vii. 8. Resi Jeiteles died on an unknown date.

Family Search : Website Changes

2011-11-26T16:33:00.001-08:00

I know its the Thanksgiving weekend, but I like to pop over to FamilySearch every few days to see what new databases/index's or images have been updated recently. On today's look I noticed something new on the front page of FamilySearch.

They have updated the initial search on the front page:

Most of the options were already available after the initial search of first name and surname. They now have added them to the front page. I think one new item for searching is by batch number, I did not see that available anywhere else. I have not had a chance to use the batch number search at this time.

Obituary Sunday: Klara Perutz (Wiener)

2011-11-20T20:01:00.001-08:00

Klara Wiener was born 1846 in most likely Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was married to Leopold Perutz and passed away on 30 May 1921 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As of right now I do not have that much information on her. From what I understand two sisters (Klara, and Matilda) married two brother (Leopold and Sigmund Perutz)

I believe that they were born in Prague because her father Heinrich Weiner born 1815 in Prague, and was married to a Marie Jeiteles.

Help Needed: Trying to figure out surnames.

2011-11-09T22:08:00.001-08:00

I have a few pictures that I took of Microfilm today and I am trying to figure out the surname of the wife of my KONDRC family. I see the wife's name is Eva, guessing her father is Joannis, and her surname from what I can get is Vocablik anyone else have a better idea? Once again this is for Slovakia in case that matters, and they are written in Latin.

Here is another with Eva on it:

And now here is my second name that I am trying to figure out. Her first name is Catherine, possible Urdan as the surname?

Last one is Anna, and believe the surname is Seasznovics. Again anyone know any better?

Hopefully someone might be able to help so I know what to look for next in my list of ever expanding surnames in Slovakia. My list of KONDRC's for 1780-1890 is now 225 names or so. Will soon have to try and break it down and see which lines I fall under.

Geni adds database to Records Match

2011-11-09T20:29:00.001-08:00

Today Geni.com announced FindAGrave as a new partner for their "Records Match". This give Geni the ability to match names in your tree to the FindAGrave database. They now have three external databases that you can get records matches off of. Archives.com. GenealogyBank.com, and FindAGrave, with the last one being the only free record search.

Additionally to have access to the Records Match you must be a PRO user.(At the writing of this I am not sure if PLUS member's are eligible) I have looked through the site but could not find any direct reference on the site on which plans can use Record Match).

I think it will be a great addition to the Records Match because FindAGrave will be their first global database, as the other two are for the United States. This is a good first step for Geni to include its user's outside of America, and I am sure they can work with other partners worldwide to add more free database records connections.

Updates to my index's

2011-11-08T18:57:00.000-08:00

I have spent the past few days back and forth and the local FHC and have updated my BMD (focus on KONDRC) surname for Bucany, and Brestovany. Right now this index has BMD from 1799-1895. I have been looking at three films for this one. I still need to go back and look at the first film which is from about 1775-1800 to find some of the missing pieces. I wish that they had 1895-1915 available somewhere, I will have to keep looking for this information as I believe that will actually be the most beneficial part of the BMD to connect a few families together. Only time will tell when that will be available. Might have to contact Bucany directly for that info.

The second index is the index for the microfilm: 2236117

This film is for the Bučany , Slovakia area but I have been slowly indexing the film page by page. So when it comes online I will be able to find names, ect. Right now I am up to page 18 which is roughly 1838-1840, I have a lot more pages to go through to finish this up. Not sure that I will be able to finish it up anytime soon.

Once again if anyone has any family in Bučany, Slovakia that they would like for me to keep an eye out for while searching my families please leave a comment and I will do my best. The films are available at the main San Diego FHC till about 12 January 2012 ( I have them on a 90 day loan).

1838 Bucany Death Index (Partial list)

2011-11-06T19:39:00.000-08:00

In my search for my ancestors I have decided to not only index my ancestors in each of the films but the rest of the families living there. This might take me some time, and I am sure that there are many many errors in my transcription. I have written them how they look to me, and some of them do not look anywhere near a real surname but it might be a hint for someone to make a connection.

I have also tried to post the cause of death on this list as best as I could. This is only the first 10 pages of the microfilm, and I will try and update it as much as possible. If anyone has any need of lookups for the Bucany, Slovakia area please let me know and I will do my best.

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Can I Scan an entire FHC Microfilm to USB?

2011-11-04T18:00:00.000-07:00

Now that I have been going to FHC for two day to look over the microfilm I am starting to wonder if I could not just get a large enough thumb drive and copy the contents onto them. I do have a few questions and concerns as whether its possible.

I would only be using this for my own research, and not posting the entire contents anywhere.
Second this would let me create my own index of pages so I can find things quicker while waiting for them to post these films online.

My questions are:

1. Does FHC allow the full copy of films for non-commercial use?
2. If possible what would be the average time to copy 1 microfilm (I understand that they are all differant lengths but looking for an average here).
3. How big of a file would be created per image?
4. How big of a thumb drive do you think would work (per film) I have a 16GB thumb drive. currently.

I know that they charge 1$ per hour to use the scanners at the local FHC which does not bother me, I am willing to pay for the time it takes to copy them if possible. I am just looking for simplicity of having them available on my schedule and at my place (for those time were its the middle of the night and you want to verify something.)

Another Day at FHC

2011-11-04T16:16:00.000-07:00

I was able to get over to the Family History Center today for about 3 hours and got about a 1/3 the way through one film (once again only searching for KONDRC). It was mostly from 1830-1860 time period that was available on this reel.

I was able to get the usual births/deaths/marriages for Bucany. Next step once again is to add that to my growing list on Scribd. Once I have as much information that is available I will try and break it down to something I can understand and maybe possibly figure out my line of the KONDRC's.

I was really not expecting this many KONDRC surnames in that location for a given time period. If you take a look you will understand what I mean. Granted I think that most of them passed away young due to disease, but its the parents like to re-use the same names over and over again.

Link to Scribd Database is here. Will update when completed.

Bucany , Slovak Records now at local FHC

2011-11-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

After work I stopped by the local Family History Center to try and do a little research on a friends family lines. I was getting stuck trying to find anything between 1780-1850 in NY or Germany that would connect the lines. But that is another story for another day.

Before I was about to leave the FHC I decided I should log in a check on the status of my film request. It was still showing as executed. I talked to one of the volunteers who looked through the book and we noticed that they arrived on the 18th of October (I only have them for 90 days). So I am two weeks for the 3 films not to big of deal really in my book.

The volunteer had me check my email and login to FamilySearch to show me where we can check the status, and that is where I showed him the status has not been updated since then. I even called about a week or go, but since I told them my account showed executed, they said call back when status says shipped. No fault on their side I did not know how the system worked or I would have asked them to check the logs to see if it had arrived.

I now have three films at the Family History Center

2236116 - Baptisms 1754-1800 (p. 1-136) - Marriages 1755-1760, 1788-1794, 1766-1800 (pp. 137-189) - Deaths 1766-1800 (pp. 213-279) - Converts 1780 - 1795, 1914 (pp. 288-290)
Baptisms 1800-1852 (p. 3-324) - Confirmation 1853 (pp. 325-355) - Deaths 1800-1837 (pp. 369-501)

2236117 - Deaths 1837-1852 (pp. 502-596) - Marriages 1800-1852 (pp. 607-701) - Confirmation 1863 (pp. 702-716) - Converts 1810 to 1850 (p. 718-the end), Births 1852-1862 (str. 1-119),Marriages 1852-1871, Deaths 1852-1862, Deaths 1862-1873

1224827 - Births (1862-1895), Marriages (1872-1896) Deaths (1874-1895)

While I wish that they where at least up to 1900 or beyond I can work with most of this. I spent about 4 hours today just doing basic viewing looking for the surname KONDRC, I pulled a few other names out, but for right now I am doing initial scans for just the KONDRC surname once I have them figured out I can branch off to all the other branches of them (ie wives, cousins, ect).

In those 4 hours I was only able to get through the Baptism's section of 2236116, and yes 4 hours was probably quicker then most people but when you are only searching for one surname in probably 500 or more pages its not to hard.

I only wish that I had it on the film reader that you can use your thumb drive, but I think I would have scanned the entire thing (is that allowed). Maybe that will be a future post, need to remember to bring actually cash for the next time I am there. It is a dollar an hour to use the scanning version of the film reader.

Now I am off to work to transcribe my 10 pages of new KONDRC's into my list and update it to Scribd.

Data Backup Day: Nov 1

2011-11-01T19:45:00.000-07:00

The first of the month and its time for me to validate my back-up solutions. Currently I have a multiple fallbacks for my genealogy documents and databases. I have all my information stored on my D: drive of my computer. At the moment I think it rounds out to be about 2.4 GB of space.

Backup Solutions:

DropBox (2.25 GB) - which I am currently getting close to filling up...at 98%.
ZumoDrive (2.25GB) - Also close to being full.
Box.net (5GB) which is not full, but does not have a SYNC program which makes it a hassle, I have not sync'd Box.net in a long time, will have to do an update today just to be current.
Minus.com (10GB) I recently added this to my list but have yet to upload anything to my account.
SugarSync (3.70GB) I am not sure on this one either, have to validate information and update if required.

2TB - I have any external that I use Always Sync and Go. Which reminds me that I need to see what other options Always uses (might be able to have it set to update say Box.net or another such site.
60GB Ext - An older laptop external drive that I have sitting around, about once a month I copy my Genealogy data to it and store it.

I think that is my backup plans for right now. I know its a little extreme on the online side but you can never be to careful as I have learned. My job as an IT professional I have seen my share of data loss, and thats not counting the stupid things I have done that have almost lost me precious data.

About a year ago I was fixing one of my computers and needed to reinstall Windows 7, well it was being a pain, so I ran clean from FDISK. This hard drive had two partitions with the second one have 90GB of photo's of my two daughters (that were not backed up anywhere at the time). Long story short was that it was lost for a few hours and had to run a lot of recovery software but was able to repair the damage and save the files.

I now also have two or three locations where I backup my daughters photos/videos which is probably over 100GB now.

Weekend Researching Quebec

2011-10-23T23:18:00.000-07:00

I spent the better part of this weekend doing research in Quebec. I have once again been using the Drouin Collection mostly on Ancestry.com to further my research. I have been able to reach almost back to 1780 with verified Birth, Death, or Marriage (sometimes all three) on at least two major lines in that family.

I already knew about Baptisms having either Marie or Joseph as the first name for everybody in these documents, so once I got past that I was able to find a remarkable amount of information about the families. I personally cannot read french very well, but if I got stuck on a surname that was blurry or something I could not make out I just sent a copy to my translator...at least they know some of the common names in the area's of Quebec so it was easier for them to make a suggestion on a name.

The two surnames that I was focusing on this weekend was SERGERIE and LACHAPELLE. For the most part it was easy, but after going back say 150 years the surnames would change a bit. SERGERIE was now listed as ST JORRE DIT SERGERIE, and LACHAPELLE was listing as JONETTE DIT LACHAPELLE.

Personally I do not understand the double surnames, but after a bit of research it seems to me that when the first ST JORRE or JONETTE came to QUEBEC there were multiple of the same surname so they added the location that they came from SERGERIE was somewhere in Normandy. LACHAPELLE is also a town or city in France.

Now I have "found" the supposed original person to use the full surnames but at this time I have not been able to connect my lines back to them. Both my lines are about 1780'ish as of right now (best I believe I can get with the Drouin Collection). And most of the records of the "earliest use of the surnames" places them around 1630 stopping around 1740 (so possibly one generation off with making a "suggested connection" until I can prove for fact.

I did use someone tree on Rootsweb as a guide to locating the path of the families. Once I had an idea of who the mother/father was I would go to Ancestry and verified it via the collection, and then download a copy of the file. If I could not verify something that was posted online, I have left it out of my tree at this time. I also found more names then were originally listed on the Rootsweb site but once again I verified before adding.

It could have been so much easier to download a GEDCOM possibly from Rootweb and call it done. The user could have done an excellent job, but I did not want to take a chance and just go on what someone else said. I would rather have seen it with my own eyes and then add to my tree.

And we are learning more between what is Family Stories and what is Family History.

Putting to use the mining of Ancestry.com by Genealogy's Star.

2011-10-11T23:21:00.000-07:00

Today I decided to take advantage of the idea from Genealogy's Star about mining Ancestry.com with FTM 2012. To be fair I uploaded a tree when it was in Beta, and have to order my new copy of FTM here shortly (its on my to-do list).

Either way I have a tree on Ancestry with 2100 people, and about 250 hints at the moment. On average each person with a leaf has about 3 hints. I believe the hints are only showing for my main lines as I have not opened up other branches of the tree online. It seems to only register new connections as I open them up in the web interface of Ancestry.com.

I must also state at this point and time I do not have any subscriptions to Ancestry.com. During the first 15 days of October, Ancestry is offering up a new database each day. So I should be able to use those database's to my advantage.

In the end I pulled information from the SSDI, WWI Draft Records, 1920 Census, and 1880 Census. At this point the rest of my "hints" required a subscription. I hope that when I get my copy of FTM 2012 I can just download the tree off Ancestry and use that as the main database. Since uploading it I have not made any significant changes to my tree that would not take more then a few minutes to update.

Through work I have access to AncestryLibrary Edition. I guess I could pick out the hints and then jump through the hoops to connect them in FTM, that is another possibility.

I need help comparing two pictures

2011-10-11T07:00:00.000-07:00

I was playing around with Google Image searching my surnames and came upon a link for a Franz Maczek. My great great grandfather was a Franz Maczek, and up until about 2 months ago I never had a picture of him. The picture I found today came from a War Memorial for WWI or WWII it states two different wars. I am pretty sure he was alive past WWI, but he might have died during WWII, or there around. Not sure.

The one on the left is from my collection and the one on the right is from the website:

Let me know what you think maybe I will have to do more research on him.
Thanks