Photos

http://galliacountyphotoalbum.blogspot.com/
Please take a look at the photos posted on this website. Most are from Gallia county, Ohio where my McCarleys lived. It would be wonderful if some one could recognize any one at all here. If so, please, please contact me. Thanks, Karen

Find A Grave

This is a good website where you can look for information about locating an ancestor's grave. There are more than 53 million graves, often with pictures and headstone incriptions. You can search by name, by location, or by cemetery. Really good information here.



http://www.findagrave.com/

Old Ohio schools

http://www.oldohioschools.com/
Anyone who has ties to Ohio needs to look at this web site. County by county you can look at the old Ohio schools...some abandoned, some just "gone."

Genealogy Search Help

Genealogy Search Help for Google, which helps you run targeted genealogical Google searches

Get the Best Genealogy Searches for Google by Using Your Family Tree
This free genealogy site will help you use Google™ for your research. It will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" that will likely improve your results. The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google to find ancestry information on the Internet.
Just complete the small family tree from the above link for an ancestor and this site will set up the best searches for you, based on what you enter. Tip: If you don't know an ancestor's parents, but know one of the ancestor's children, use the child's name for the First Name and Last Name below (and spouse, birth, and death) and then enter the ancestor as the Father or Mother. This gives more information for building a search.

Great Resource - New Source

If you go to the New York Times site, you can enter your search terms in the bar near the top of the page and select whether you want to search articles since 1981 or before 1981.
Once you have your results, you can select the Advanced option to limit your search to specific dates. The stories are downloadable as PDF documents. (If you happen across articles that aren't in the free years, they're $4.95 each, or you can get a monthly pass for $7.95 that allows 100 story downloads.)
I used a couple of place names and found real gold...many surnames, too. Try it.