Episode 87 - Scouting for Ancestors

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GEM: Scouting for Ancestors

Interview with Mark Tucker

 

Deborah Mullins Vernon asks for advice on searching for live people, and specifically Girl Scouts.

she has a newspaper article about her. In the article is a picture of her with three Senior Girl Scouts. She would like to try to find them or their decendants to offer them a copy. 

When it comes to finding living people you can find a lot of information about that in Premium episode 3 which is all about finding living people using private eye techniques.  The archived episode is available through the Genealogy Gems store at Lulu.com

 

Lisa's article Be a Family History Detective – 10 Tactics to trace eluxive ancestors is the cover story on the newest issue of Family Tree Magazine (July 2010)

  

Mark Tucker of the ThinkGenealogy blog is not only passionate about scouting, but has been doing his homework to investigate what type of family history information might be gleaned through researching an ancestors scouting history.

 

And what better time than now to talk about the Boy Scouts as this wonderful organization celebrates it's 100 years of scouting this year.

 

So let’s listen in and see what Mark Tucker can tell us about scouting in our family history.

 

If you would like to learn more about scouting:

 

For Boy Scouts head to the

100 Years of Scouting History website

  

For the Girl Scouts visits their official site and you can go directly to the Girl Scouts Council Finder page on the site to locate and get in touch with the council where ancestors participated in scouting. 

 

Check out Genealogy blogger Denise Levenick’s blog post On My Honor, we were girl scouts when scouting wasn’t cool  by denise Levenick

 

If you have any experience with researching your scouting ancestors or find a gem after listening to this episode, please email Lisa.  I know we would all love to hear about!

 

National Scouting Museum website

 

The Scoutmaster handbook on Google Books

Also Search Boys Life

And Scouting Magazine

 

Google News

Try scout searches on EbayFamily History Library search for Girl Scouts: Think Genealogy.com Blog   

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