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No Descendants? No Problem! Where to Donate Your Genealogical Materials

Image by rawpixel   It's a reality that not all family historians have direct descendants or interested relatives to whom they can bestow their hard-won discoveries. “What will happen to all my work?” they rightly wonder.  Curious about this very topic, I wrote about several repositories which might accept a donation of various types of genealogical materials for an article that appeared in the December 2023 issue of Stirpes , the journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society. With the permission of the editors, I'm sharing the article here. Just click the PDF below to read “No Descendants? No Problem! Where to Donate Your Genealogical Materials.” While the repositories mentioned in the article are mostly Texas-centric, consider similar institutions located near you for donation purposes. URLs for the following have changed since I wrote this article: The Family History Library : https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-donate-to-family...
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GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021 - Seeing Double

James, dwarfed by a Union Pacific engine.


 
James' grandpa, James Casey, Sr. enjoys his time on a train.

GENEALOGY CHALLENGE 2021

Seeing Double -  January 25th entry of a 31-day challenge to post a document, photo or artifact on social media every day in January.  

by Nancy Gilbride Casey


What is it about little boys and trains? Our son James was enamored of trains from the day he first noticed them as a tiny little guy. 

Whenever we saw one, he would want me to slow down the car so we could watch it, or roll the car windows down so that he could hear the train whistle. He collected Thomas the Tank Engine cars and track. I read him Thomas the Tank Engine books, and we watched the TV show too. With every library trip we took, we looked for any book with a train theme. I'm sure there was a train-themed birthday party at some point too.

James also loved a trip to the train museum with his Papa (James D. Casey, Sr.), or visiting other train exhibits in local small towns. Imagine his thrill when we took a ride on the actual Thomas the Train one year in Grapevine, Texas!

The love of trains must run in the family line: proven by this wonderful black and white photograph of James' Papa, standing on a train stairs when he was a little man. It wonderful to see shared interests passed through generations.


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