Some popular pages on the Wee Monster genealogy website with links to where they are now:
Online Birth and Marriage Records Indexes (USA)
Genealogy Records, Indexes and Databases on the Internet (USA)
What Passenger Lists Are Online?
Online Searchable Naturalization Indexes and Records (USA)
The Origin of the "Wee-Monster" Genealogy Website...
A bunch of genealogy bloggers are "tagging" other genealogy bloggers (as in "you're it") to get them to write a blog post where you list 5 things about yourself that your blog readers probably don't know. I've been tagged 3 times (!), first by Randy Seaver, then by George Morgan and Rick Crume. Since the main purpose of this blog is to help people find their ancestors I see no point in boring you with this sort of silliness.
But! I did come up with one thing you may not know about me that might indirectly help you find something about your ancestors: I used to have a dog named Monster.
So how is that going to help you find your ancestors? Well... when I first signed up for some web space back in 1998 I named it "wee-monster" after my dog. The website is actually called "German Roots," but the URL originally had the phrase wee-monster in it. Here's where the wee monster website is now: German Roots - German Genealogy Resources
The idea for the website was to help Americans with German ancestors find their roots, but the site soon went a little off the original topic, and it now has a few sections devoted to American genealogy in general. My Death Indexes and Records website was originally a single webpage on the German Roots website that got out of hand. Same thing happened with my Military Indexes and Records website. The Online Passenger Lists webpage is still there on the German Roots website. See? Maybe my dog was able to help you find something about your ancestors (insert smiley face here).
Here's a picture of the wee Monster contemplating her legendary status. As you can see, she was a totally ferocious beast so you better be afraid (insert another smiley face here).
Now go find some ancestors!This article was updated on 9 September 2010.
3 comments:
So finally we learn the story behind wee-monster! Thanks for putting up with our silliness, Joe!
Hi, Joe: Enjoyed the story about Monster...I've always been curious about what was behind the URL! By the way, I love your Death Indexes and Records websites, and use it quite frequently. Thanks for playing tag with all of us!
Hi, Havent done much gen. lately. My old link did not work, so did a google search on wee-monster death records... now you know death records would have brought up huge # of sites. But due to your blog on Monster. I found the site again.
Thanks
Terry
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