Andrew Smith

This image I received from my gran this week - she is so kind to get it copied and sent all this way. Any ways..... This picture is of Andrew Smith 1885-1928 (genealogists night mare! A relative with the sur name smith :( please don't take offence of your name is smith) and his second wife Mary, now she is a bit of a mystery I know my grate grand mother was 12 when her father remarried but I don't see wedding rings in this photo. And I have found a wedding date in 1907 but this is all the info I have to go on. Sad times for me.

Do you have an iPad? I have just entered the wonderful world of iPad. I downloaded the Ebook " how to make your iPad in to a genealogy powerhouse"
Highly recommended written by Lisa Louse Cook I learned about app and how to use them - which if you have anything apple or android I know you just Rolex your eyes at me - I totally know what apps are but I am telling you I was will impress by the info in the book she talks about the best apps for different tasks - I think her top tips were:
Spoiler Alert -
The app Everynote and Dropbox. When I told my partner about the cool stuff these free apps do he said
Yeh I know I have then on my phone and laptop too :(
Maybe I am slow on picking up on these cool apps :(

If you have any top tips for top apps leave a wee comment
TTFN

Martin Ceplauskas and Lisa Louse Cook

when i saidBRB i meant it at the time but then i got distracted by life :( Sad times

Do youget that problem? that life keeps getting in the way of the stuff you want todo? booo

How’syour family treeing going?

I stilllove it - let me tell you about a brick wall i smashed down this week with thehelp if Lisa Louse Cook at http://lisalouisecooke.com/

i havebeen a big fan of podcasts for years and some are better than other but thislady knows her stuff. i can’t recommend her info enough there are not justpodcasts to listen too but videos to watch and notes and blogs to read - purebrill
have a quick look next time your life gives you time off most of her stuff isfree, Anyways she helped me by explaining about Google!
yes i know you know what google is - i do too but what she did was tell me tosearch of names in "" and that i can + or - words too

what a differencethis has made to me i found this webpage:

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/o/m/Martin-Tomlinson/index.html

it isjust the one page but it says this : I am looking for information about MartinCeplauskas, married to Monika Lokacute and born in Lithuania in 1877. Heemigrated on a Polish passport. On his way to America, he passed through Londonand was taken on as a collier, working the rest of his life in Bellshill,Scotland. He died on 01 Aug 1945.

i was soexcited! proof this man Martin existed outside my families stories and more importantthat the name Ceplauskas was spelt correctly whoop whoop
if you’re a family tree’er you know how important spelling is.

on theback of all this info i found this document

 

it has somuch info on it> even his chest size and eye colour. If this is really my gg grandfather this would be a really good find. I just need to verify it ishim. If you have any info leave me a wee comment.

TTFN,

 

The first post of NAG

I started my family tree and it is addictive - have you tried it yet?

i know it sounds like it is for old people to look at old documents of even oldpeople who are now died!

and well it is that but it is also pure fascinating and very addictive.




I started just asking my parents and their parents what they remember about thegeneration before them and thanks to the power of the internet and yes, god forgiveme Facebook - you just for dob and middle names of family members who i hardlyever see but still don't want to ask them emmmm "when is your birthdayagain?" awkward!!!

but facebook - it is the way forward - people put up so much personal info upthere dob - family - sooo many picture which is what i think makes a familytree.

what i think makes a family tree are pictures and story's > facts and figureare brill and you do need them to get even more pictures of the old documentswith your family name on them. i love the picture of the old docs

now on that note - why oh why will Scotland only give out the transcript of thedocs they have ? and not the picture of the docs - pure maddening.




oh Skype BRB