It has been a rather long time since my last post. Unfortunately my day job involves a lot of computer work and therefore it takes the earth moving to get me to sit down to my home computer to post. Hmm, I wonder if my employer would block me from taking some time at work (my own time) to get on-line to publish a post from work (never thought of this before just now).
So my new discovery in the past week or so came about from visiting our fancy sort-of new main library downtown. I don’t get downtown much anymore so haven’t had the inclination to see what the new library has to offer. It has been there newly renovated for probably the past 4 years or so. Well what I found was that the library has a direct connection (account) to the genealogy database in Ancestry.com. With my search for my grandfather Wilson’s roots I have been stymied by my limited access to world-wide database access. Finally I was able to see the census record for Hannah Wilson (my g-grandmother) for the Illinois census. Alas, it seems that record is not related to me or my family. That’s one to scrap and I will tirelessly continue to search. It is just nice that I can now go downtown to the library and have better success searching. I think what I can do is to a cursory search from my home and print out possibilities that I could then take to the library to do a more thorough search. Of course this will involve my having to sit down at my home computer after putting in a very long day of computer work which just is not appealing to me. I wish there was a simpler way; I am sure this is all in a day for a true genealogical researcher.
So the hunt goes on……
