Julie Miller’s monthly column is in the 13 July 2008 edition of the Broomfield Enterprise. The topic for July is Genealogy disaster plan a precaution worth taking. The column gives some suggestions on how to safeguard your genealogy in case of a natural disaster.
Julie Miller’s monthly column is in the 25 May 2008 edition of the Broomfield Enterprise. The topic for May is “Lots of ways to grow your family tree-tracing abilities.” The column discusses educational opportunities for improving genealogy research skills.
Julie Miller’s monthly column is in the 24 February 2008 edition of the Broomfield Enterprise. The topic for February is Second chance will revitalize research. Julie writes about her plan to take advantage of second chances to improve and recharge her genealogical research.
It’s Halloween and what genealogist doesn’t like a nice visit to the cemetery. I recently initiated my grandsons, Jakob and John, in the joys of visiting a cemetery. We went on a hunt to find their 3rd great grandparents tombstones at the Stromsburg Cemetery in Polk County, Nebraska . My two children never appreciated these visits to cemeteries when they were small but my grandsons seemed to have a great time. Maybe the cemetery gene just skipped a generation.
If you can’t make it to a cemetery in person this Halloween, you may want to take a virtual cemetery trip through the Internet. Below are some Web sites with Colorado cemetery information.
US GenWeb Colorado Cemetery Transcription Project
US GenWeb Colorado Tombstone Photo Project
I Dream of Genealogy (Colorado)
The Political Graveyard (Colorado)
If an online trip doesn’t satisfy your cemetery addiction, you might consider helping with the Cemetery Location Project of the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies (CCGS). Volunteers for the project visit Colorado cemeteries, take the GPS reading, and confirm the cemetery’s name. CCGS has purchased several GPS systems for the project. Contact Duane Kniebes at dkniebes@localnet.com for more information and to volunteer.
Happy Halloween!
Lee Zion, COGenWeb Colorado Places By County Webmaster, has announced that the project pages have moved to a new URL. Colorado Places By County is a directory of Colorado place names. The directory provides the county in which the place exists or existed, years the place existed, and other related remarks. The authors have attempted to include every settlement, trading post, military post, mining camp, ghost town, stage station, railroad stop, post office, rural community, town and city from the earliest known into the present.
The following example is a typical entry:
| City/Town/Place Name | Dates/County/Remarks |
| Aaby | Est 1907, Cheyenne Co. |
| Abarr also see Brownsville |
Est 1921, Yuma Co. PO 1923-1947 |
The new address is — www.rootsweb.com/~coplaces/