Boone Family Research Links

My grandmother asked me to continue her research on the Boone connection to her family that she found just before she published her White genealogy in 1983 which I have done. I want to compile a source list for those who keep pestering me for info on the Boone Family. Since so many have kindly shared with me, I think it's only fair that I pass on the favor. I have many bookmarked Boone websites at the moment, but it is nothing like the one I had before my computer crashed in June 2021. So here goes (and by the way, if you find a dead link, let me know in the comments below, so I can fix it. Thanks.)

I met the Boone Society's official genealogist, Dorthy Mack, in person for the first and last time in 2016 and we took her out to eat at Jack Stack's Barbeque Restaurant in Martin City, Missouri on Father's Day of that year. She was returning home after a Boone Family Reunion. Sadly, she passed away on the 8th of April 2021. She was my feisty friend. The new Boone Society genealogist is Dorthy's Find-a-grave's memorial manager, so if my list doesn't work for you, go ask her. 

Some Allied Family Surnames: Berry, Boone, Bradley, Brooks, Bryan, Callaway, Castlio, Day, Elston, Darst, Douglass, Fletcher, Frey, Grow, Grubbs, Harmon, Hays, Howell, Lander, Liggett, Linville, Martin, Mock, Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, Muir, Pennington, Scholl, Strode, Theobald, Van Bibber, Watts, Wilcoxson, Yeates

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By the way, I DNA match several Boones on Ancestry. Too bad many of them don't have trees. 

Before you begin to research your family roots, write down everything you know about your family, beginning with yourself and work backwards. There are fill-in worksheets at most libraries/genealogical centers that can help make this process easier, but failing that, take a spiral notebook and fill out one sheet per person, beginning with yourself and working backwards. Write down your full name, your birth date and where you were born, your marriage record and place, etc. in a list form. The worksheets usually have fill-in-the-blank spaces for birth date & place, marriage date/place and death date/place. It would be nice to create another couple of lines for a burial place as well for the deceased members of your tree. Then, create a sheet apiece for your parent's basic stats. You can list your siblings on your parent's sheets as "children." And so on, up to your grandparents, as far back as you can go. Interview your parents and your siblings for as much information as they remember about your family tree. It may take several tries to jog the memory center of the brain. Also, ask them about family photographs or certificates while you are asking for family information. That may also help shake memories loose as well. 

Next, before you ever check out the genealogy sites on the internet, take your spiral notebook with you to your local library or genealogy center or historical/genealogical society. Be sure to ask the staff for help if you get stuck. Their job is to assist their patrons and they may be a wealth of information too. I take advantage of mining people's brains when I can. My dad always said if you don't ask questions, you won't know what you want to know. Be sure to write down what information you found and where you obtained it. That's called citing your sources. Let me tell you, once you get into researching your family, you won't remember where you got that information, unless you are one of the rare individuals with a photographic memory. Write it down!  

Look for records that mention your family members to document your BOONE ancestors at the library.  Begin with Hazel Spraker's Boone Family genealogical book (see book list *** below).  You may also be able to order books and periodicals through World Cat at your local library. 

You may have to order some certificates from Vital Records (courthouse) in the state in which your Boone relatives lived, although some may be available online. For instance, Missouri has death certificates from 1910 to 1963 online and there are a few previous to 1910 at the same database. And I mention many of the other types of records your ancestor and relatives may have in their possession that you can use to document their lives in several posts on this blog. Look under the labels "Paper Trail" and "Research Basics." 

Seek the truth and document everything with the appropriate records. Don't accept every Tom, Dick, and Harry's say-so, especially if he doesn't have paper records with a source listed to back it up. The more records you have, the better you get to know your ancestors and I have found that useful when someone wanted to write "fiction" about one of my ancestors. 

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There are many counties, schools, and streets named in honor of the Boone and allied families such as Boone County, Missouri; Boone Street in Lecompton, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri; Liggett and Strode Roads in Blue Springs, Missouri; etc. 

Books:

My Google Library Boone bookshelf

• The Boone Family by Hazel Atterbury Spraker. The Tuttle Co, Rutland, VT, 1922. Internet Archive.  
• The Boone Bible has been donated to the Missouri State Historical Society. 
• "Boone Family Echoes" newsletters. Beulah Boone Collection. Jackson County Historical Society (JCHS) (Recommended by David W. Jackson)
• Before Abolition: African Americans in early Clark County, Kentucky. By Lyndon Comstock. 2017. Amazon
• Bristow-Douglass; the Rev. James Jackson Bristow and Sarah Douglass Bristow, their ancestors and their descendants, 1640-1961. Compiled by Julia J. Bristow. Lincoln, NE, 1960. Internet Archive. 
• Hannah Boone and Her Descendants. By Bess L. Hawthorne. Chedwato Service, Burlington, VT., 1960. Internet Archive. 
• A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri. By William Smith Bryan & Robert Rose. Genealogical Pub, Co, Baltimore, 1977. Internet Archive
• Boonesborough; its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days, and revolutionary annals by George Washington Ranck, J. P. Morton & Co, 1901.  Open Library.
• The Callaway Clan. By Bessie Callaway Hoffmeyer. College Press, Collegedale, TN, 1948.  Internet Archive. 
• The Elston Family in America. by James Strode Elston. The Tuttle Co, Rutland, VT, 1942.  Internet Archive. 
• The Duncans of Bourbon County, KY by Judith Spencer Ardery. Internet Archive
• History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky. By David Lander. Regan Printing House, Chicago, IL, 1926. Internet Archive. 
• The Linville Family in America. By Alice Eichholz. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982. Google Books and Internet Archive. 
• A Second Visit with the Linvilles. by Alice Eichholz. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976. Google Books. 
• Lost Souls of the Lost Township. By Paul R. Petersen & David W. Jackson. The Orderly Pack Rack, Kansas City, MO. 2011. Amazon. 
• Morgan & Strode. By Jim White. 2010. Lulu.com
• Rebeckah Boone's Bible
• Richard Callaway Family of Va. and Ky. and allied lines. By Jessie Williams Hart, 1933. Internet Archive. 
• Scholl, Sholl, Shull genealogy: the colonial branches. By John William Scholl. The Grafton Press, New York, 1930. Internet Archive. 
• Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the ST. Charles District by Lilian Hays Oliver.  Chedwato Service. 1964. Seeking My Roots.
• Tallman Family History. By G. Tallman. Van Wert, IA, 1939. Internet Archive.
• The Jenkins, Boone & Lincoln Family Records. By Warren Y. Jenkins. Canon City, CO., 1925. Internet Archives. 
• The Pioneer and the Prairie Lawyer: Boone and Lincoln Family Heritage. by Willard Mounts. Ginwill Publishing Co, Denver, Co, 1991. 
• The Old Hand Carved Walnut Box. by Jim White. Lulu.com
• The Richard Callaway Family. by Jessie Williams Hart. Internet Archive. 
• The Spear and the Spindle: Ancestors of Sir Francis Bryan (d. 1550), KT. by T. A. Fuller.  Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1993. Personal library and Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo. 
• Three years with Quantrell; a true story.  As told by John McCorkle. Armstrong Herald Print, Armstrong, MO, 1914. Internet Archive. 
• White's Family & Their Kin. By Mrs. Gladys Esther White O'Neal & Elma Leota White Stoops. Paper Graphics, Garden City, KS, 1983. Personal Library or Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO. 

Links: (be sure to check out the other links on side menu)

Albert Boone, Kansas Memory

Bald Eagle Mercantile, Lecompton, Douglas County, KS. 

Ballad of Daniel Boone- Fess Parker. YouTube. 

Birth Records - Write down the birth year by day, month and year and the place where the person was born like the city, township, county, and state. Birth records can be found in adoption records, old family Bibles, church records, birth announcements, doctor records, letters, newspapers, and a hospital or state issued birth certificate.  

Our Berry Family

Walters, Sanders, Soots, Russell, Morphew, McCloud Families by Mary Anne Walters. 

Rootsweb family tree.. 

Boone Association

Boone Slick Road Association

Index to the Boone Family Collection at Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo.

Boone Family Association Boone Bulletin Newsletters

Boone Society

The Boone Page (Facebook)

Bryan-Morgan (blog)

Joseph Boone at the Bushong United website (Rootsweb)

Business Cards

Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records Search Engine

Plat maps at Historic Map Works

Census Records - Every ten years, the US takes census records. States and counties also sometimes take a census.  In addition to the census records, there are agricultural, mortality and slave schedules from 1850 and 1860. 

City Directories

Court Records

Crosthwaite's Family Tree/Tribal Pages

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone's Homestead (PA)

Daniel Boone's Homestead (PA)

Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association (VA)

Daniel Morgan Boone’s Missing Years  (MO)

Rededication of Daniel Morgan Boone's Gravesite (NSDKC)

Boone Trees (Rootsweb index)

Boone-Hays Cemetery (Rootsweb)

A List of Children

A Reading of the Boone-Hays Cemetery (Rootsweb text)

Elmaza (Fletcher) Boone's Timeline

First Families of Kentucky

Fort Boonesborough's Early Settlers List 

Fort Boonesborough's Living History and Early Settlers List

A Reading of the Douglass-Grange Cemetery (Rootsweb text)

Find-a-grave

Fort Boonesborough's Early Settlers List (Goodman) 

Freedom Frontier National Heritage Area

Full Name. Do not add in a middle name if there is none listed in your primary records. Yes, some children received their mother's maiden surname as a middle name, but that doesn't mean everyone did. I received my mother's middle name as my middle name, but my mother-in-law does not have a middle name at all. Nicknames can be added in between quotation marks. My grandmother taught me to add in a woman's maiden name between parentheses, such as mine - Dolores Jean (O'Neal) Rush. It's to remind you that before a certain date, I was once single and after that date, I was married. You don't know how many times I've seen people add in a dated record with a woman's maiden surname on it after she was married on genealogical websites. 

Geni's Boonesborough's Pioneers

Hays House 1857 Restaurant, Council Grove, KS. 

Historic Map Works

Historical Marker Database

Isaac Van Bibber (Rootsweb)

Kansas Memory

Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS)

KY Kinfolk's Fort Boonesborough Early Settlers List

Kentucky Stations & Settlements

Jackson County, MO Marriage Records 1826 

The Landers (blog)

Marriage/Divorce Vital Records. 

Mattock Family Heritage Resources (Bible Records-Strode)

Military Records. Enlistment cards and pension applications.  Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database. 

Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1963

Death date/place can also be found using not only death certificates, but also using cemetery sexton's records, church records, funeral leaflets from a funeral home, obituaries or newspaper notices, old letters, stone carver's mortuary records and tombstones. 

Missouri Pioneers - 'Gone but Not Forgotten'

Nathan & Olive Boone's Homestead, 7850 N. State Hwy. V, Ash Grove, MO. 

New Santa Fe, MO Historical Society & Watt's Mill, Dallas (present day south Kansas City), Jackson County, MO. 

Free Newspaper Databases such as Chronicling America Newspapers.  

Primitive Baptist Library. (By Appointment)

Church Records - Baptism, Cookbooks, Directories, Membership, Minutes, Sunday School, and Newsletters. 

Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Independence, MO

Quaker Records. 

A Collection of Letters Written by the Scholl Family and their Kin: (1836-1897). by Isabel S. Giulvezan. St. Louis, 1959. 

Septimus Scholl Letters

Ship/Boat Passenger Lists

Social Security Card (after 14 Aug 1935)

Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Database

The State Historical Society of Missouri

    a. New Santa Fe and Dallas/Watts Mill manuscript list at the Missouri State Historical Society. 

Tax Records

Trekking the Swope Park Blue River. By Don Bradley for the Martin City Telegraph. Kansas City, Missouri. December 11, 2023 

US Federal and State Census Records

Voting Cards

Watts Burying Ground (Rootsweb)

The Watts-Hays Letters (1849-1861). 

Waldo's Santa Fe Hills: An Exclusive Indian Village with Layers of History. New Santa Fe Trailer (blog)

Will, Estate Inventory, and Probate Records. 

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If you know of any other Boone genealogy books or websites, please share it with us in the comments below. Thank you. 

Citation: "Boone Family Research Links." Researched and written by Dolores J. Rush. List approved by Ken Kamper of the Boone Association and Boone Society. 26 January 2022. Rush Family News, USA. 

Avoid the Pitfalls of Sloppy Work

If you want your work as a family historian to be taken seriously, then avoid the pitfalls of Sloppy Work (F-) 

like the plague.

I know compiling your family tree is a work in progress, however, 

you must think logically and use some of those skills you learned in school! 

Everything you do in life, whether it is employment or a hobby, 

has its own protocol and vocabulary.

"through the rules we become conscious of wrongdoing." 

~ Romans 3:20.

To begin, gather your supplies. It is GOOD (A+) to have supplies and tools to work with. Go shopping if you must. Sign up for a library card at your local library or genealogy center and obtain copies of their pre-printed charts and forms or print your own! Purchase a file box for copies of printed records and photos. It's good to have access to a basic set of an encyclopedia. As you graduate from elementary research to intermediate and expert, you can add to your tool-bag as needed. 

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL =  Begin your genealogical education with a tutor or by reading everything you can lay your hands on about genealogy. Just like professional teachers take refresher courses from time to time, be sure to update your knowledge base from time to time as well. This includes watching videos.  For extra credit, join a genealogical society or attend a genealogical conference. If you don't know something, keep asking questions or google it until you get your answers. 

ARITHMETIC = It's good to use a timeline for each person's life - start with what you already know and begin with their birth-date, adding in each fact during their life-time, up until their death. Figure out their approximate age at each added date. Recording dates and calculating ages is a helpful tool for logically figuring out if that's your ancestor in an outside record. 

WRITING = It's good  to add dates and locations to all facts in each person's life-stream.

You get an A+ if you pair the names of the locations with their component part -- indicate whether it is a city, township, or county! [i.e.. Kansas City, Washington Township (Twp.), Jackson County (Co.), State of Missouri (MO.), United States of America (USA)]

It's good to add parentheses around a married woman's maiden name. [i.e. Gladys Esther (White) O'Neal]

Here's a tip = type in the source of your record when you scan your book page to upload to genealogy sites. Then you will never forget where you found it, because it will be meshed into your digital picture! 

SOCIAL STUDIES = It's good to add in additional national or regional historical event facts to their timeline that occurred during their life. I leave my ancestor's information in black and add in additional information in another color. 


It's good to remember in the New World what kind of roads (none to Indian trails) and transportation were available to our American ancestors - ships on oceans, walking, horses, boats on rivers, wagons, trains, horseless carriages, airplanes and rockets in that order. Twenty miles of travel by wagon was a good day! It took many months of twenty mile days to cross the North American continent from coast to coast. 

SCIENCE = Good traveling was mostly done between the late spring and early fall seasons. By fall, the grass had grown tall and the water sources would have been lower or dried up. 

There was safety in numbers for our pioneer ancestors. Migrating people groups had to contend with hostile natives, illnesses, lack of healthy food, clean water, thieves, and the terrain. Military forts, doctors, and trading posts were few and far between if they existed on the frontier.  It's good to find FAN's (friends, associates, and neighbors) of your relatives as their descendants may have additional information about them. 

READING = It's good to find at least three sources of data per date to prove your relative's parents, their name, birth, death and anything in between. Many of the "Documents of" type posts on this website shows the type of records I have collected and transcribed. The more I find, the better I will get to know my ancestors and their families. 

New information is good! And it is also good to remember to note that on your person's timeline at that moment! Otherwise you may forget!

SPELLING = It's good when you spell names correctly.  However, remember, that not all people spell well, so look for all possible variations when scouting for information.

It's good to know that your ancestor may have a name twin!  My husband has six in our Metro Area. Using your timeline (s), figure out if the newest record jives with what you already know about your person as far as their dates, locations, their age and so forth. If it doesn't line up, discard it or set it aside for the time being until you know more. I don't accept every leaf hint that shows up for my ancestor on Ancestry.com.  

And please, be mindful of your manners! (A +) 

Now GO And Have Fun! 

Genealogy Etiquette

Have you ever stepped on a wad of freshly chewed gum on the sidewalk? And when you realized what was stuck to your shoe, you became disgusted at the thoughtless person who threw it down there? Tackiness, like that spit out gum, shows lack of honor and integrity and will reflect poorly on your roots, so it behooves you to become aware of basic genealogical manners. Following the GOLDEN RULE is a good beginning --

"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." ~ Matthew 7:12. 

That said, here are some gummy pitfalls to be aware of: 

1.  It is really tacky to use pre-1940's papers in mixed media paper crafting [excluding a family tree heritage scrapbook -- scrapbook archivists use vintage papers to accompany their ancestor's photos, not using it as a background paper layer to paint over]. 
As family researchers we use a paper trail to prove our ancestors lived. If it is an original document that has a name, date, and location on it, it is a primary document. If it comes from a biography, genealogy, or history book or magazine article, then it is a secondary document. I would love to have a photograph of my 3rd great-grandparents, but I have nothing personal of theirs except the story told by their descendants which I must pair with outside records to prove their life history.  You know,  if it wasn't for paper ephemera, we would know nothing about our USA and world history that we were taught in school because it comes from the very same type of primary and secondary sources that were saved. 

2. It's really tacky to create a memorial for somebody before they have had their funeral in order boost your memorial stat count on cemetery websites. So, unselfishly think of the grieving family's feelings and have a little respect and self-control. After the funeral, if a loving family member hasn't created a memorial, then go ahead and create it. 

3. It's also tacky to harvest surnames from somebody's family tree in order to find all the corresponding surname tombstones in local cemeteries in order to make memorials to boost your memorial stats too on interment sites and then refuse to add in information or transfer to family.

In addition, gleaning names from non-family trees to create an artificial family for yourself is really tacky! I believe it could be called identity theft or a mental disorder. 

4.  To find all the ugly stories about someone's ancestor and publishing them on a website whether they are true or not to publically humiliate the descendants is definitely tacky! Be  graciously kind! 

5. ASK before taking screen shots of photos from genealogy websites and family blogs to put on your family tree. I will appreciate that and will think more highly of you.  Credit me and/or other people as your source and thank us for sharing. (see my citation note up in side menu). 

6. Impatience is tacky and a bully! Kindly share what you know and then back off. Breathing down people's necks isn't conducive to loving family relationships. Building a family tree is time-consuming as good researchers must check and pair all the details with other documents, some of which may be harder to find.  Also mistakes may appear from time to time. Correct in love. 

7. Plagiarism is tacky too! For example, plagiarism is copying a poem word for word and sending it to a magazine to be published as yours. Call it what it is -- it's stealing. Write your own poem, using your own words! You never know, give yourself some credit; yours might actually be better than the one you wanted to copy. 

Also, cite your sources. It's tacky if you don't. 

8.  Playing games often includes taking turns. You throw the ball back and forth. Just as it is poor sportsmanship to hang onto the ball and not throw it to the next person, it is tacky to take and take and never return the favor. However, on the other side of the coin, it is also tacky to ask someone to fill in your family tree for you and then accuse them of hoarding information when they refuse, when you can very well find it for yourself, just as they have done. 

9. If you make a mistake, it is tacky not to apologize and correct it. 

10. It is tacky to not respond as soon as possible to email or snail-mail, even if you don't know the answer to the question posed. At least, acknowledge that you received their query. We're all busy. . . 

11. And as I'm discovering by following hints on Ancestry, it's really tacky of you to borrow the information that I've presented here for your family tree and not stop and say howdy to your cousin. See that little "comment" word down below - click on it and introduce yourself. 

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -- think about such things. What you have learned or received or heard from me or seen in me -- put it into practice." ~ Philippians 4:8-9

Don't be the gum stuck to somebody's shoe! 

More to Read:
1.  Cemetery Etiquette
2. Christa Cowan's video of "Black Sheep in Your Family" 
3. DAR Victoria Pratt's Genealogy Etiquette 
4. Everplans Funeral Etiquette
5. Family Reunion Etiquette
6. Kristen's Guide to Genealogy Etiquette
7.  Ted's Obituaries and Etiquette 

Adding in Names, Dates, and Places to Your Scans

I recently read somewhere that when a person dies, a whole library is lost too. Think of all the knowledge and experience the person had acquired during their lifetime. Did they pass on any wisdom to  the next generation, including knowledge of their family tree? Hope so.  

Speaking of the library you carry around in your head,  some things will out-live you, so make sure you pass on what you know about your family. Write down and share some of the best stories of you and your family, things you would be happy for your descendants and extended family to know. Along with that should be paper copies of photographs with labels as to who is in the photo, when it was taken, and where it was taken.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things." ~ Philippians 4:8

My husband and I enjoy adding to our knowledge of history by attending events at local historical society museums and genealogical libraries. At one such lecture, the speaker, David Jackson, said we should make paper copies of all our history to preserve it as technology changes way too fast. As an example, he asked everyone in the audience if anyone remembered reel-to-reel audio tapes, 8-tracks or VHS video's and nearly all the mature set raised their hands, while most of the youngsters only looked puzzled. Yeah!

However, it is easier to swap information by email with distant relatives and scanned photographs through attachments in email. Before you share, consider adding in names (take care to spell names correctly) and dates to photographs, either with a permanent blue photograph pencil (most hobby stores carry these in the scrapbook or photograph department) before you scan OR digitally enhance  the scan afterwards by using the Paint or photograph editing program that came with your Windows computer package. You can also use Photoshop or any other photograph editing program, but I can't tell you about how to use those other programs as I self-taught myself to use the Windows Paint program that came with my computer and I am happy to share what I know. Be sure to preserve your original photos in acid-free document sleeves, photograph albums  and/or boxes. DO NOT put them in those cheap magnet albums as the "protective" plastic attached to the pages off-gass and will fade your photos. Ask me how I know this! 😒

This is what the Paint program looks like open. Click on photo to enlarge.

1. To import a scan into the program, click on  "File" and "Open" on the left-hand side of the screen. Select a scan from  "File Explorer > This PC > Picture > Folder"  saved on your computer's hard drive.  Play around with your Paint program. Push buttons and figure out what they do. That's how I learned.

2. You may use the "select" button to crop or delete the scanner bed from the sides of your photographs. You can also resize photographs or rotate them around here also. 

TIP: Create a new photograph from the original by clicking on "File", scroll down to "Save As", find the folder you want to save it in, in "Pictures" on your computer and renaming it before editing. When I save ancestor's photos, I usually name them first with their surname (last name), then a dash or dot - and next, the proper name (first name) and a year date (if I know it)," so the photo at the end of this article of me, would be "Rush-Dolores" in the .PNG file extension or .JPEG format as those seem to be the most used online. 

Keep the original file as a back-up, in case something goes hay-wire in the paint program or you hit the wrong button accidently and the photo goes, poof!, off into cyber-space. Apparently that has happened to quite a few of us. 😬  After you get done with the editing of the second photograph, you'll be saving all the edits you have added to it.

3. The rest of the buttons are the "Tools," "Brushes," "Shapes," "Lines," (gauges thickness of lines), and "Colors" (I wrote an article on my craft blog here on how to figure out the digital color formulas of popular marker colors.)

4. After you have imported your scan into the paint program, click on the "Select," then scroll down to "Transparency" and click on that (I like the transparency as it allows the background to show through the additions to my photographs.) Then move over to the "A" on "Tools", click on it and then move the cursor to a point on your scan to open an "enter" box to add in the information you want (the above sample of my stick figure shows an "enter" box).   You can put the information in anywhere on the photograph, but it's best to stay away from your main focus, usually the face.

I went back up to the tools and chose the font I wanted for the name and date, then went back down to the "enter" box and began typing in the information I wanted to use on the photograph. Since my "photograph" of the stick figure's background was white, I used the contrasting color of black to type in the name and date. But you can choose another color if you so desire, by clicking on the color menu on the toolbar. 

If you decide you want a different font or alpha color, you don't have to erase the current wording (before the dotted enter box disappears). Just highlight the words and change to to the other font or color.  If you make a mistake as you type, you can hit the backwards arrow at the very top of the toolbar to delete it. 

5. If you are happy with everything on the scan, click again on "File," scroll down to "save" and you will have a lovely photograph to share with the relatives through email or at your next family reunion (printed copies). Great-aunt Jane won't have to roll her eyes upwards, tap her cheek with her finger and try to remember who you said that was in the photograph, because the person's name will be right there on the photograph in front of her.

This photograph was taken at the New Santa Fe Historical Society Trails Center after an event there.  Do you see where I placed my name?

Article written by Dolores J. Rush