Heartland Genealogy

  Ethel Lighter Beggs — A Handwritten Obituary Have you ever looked through your genealogy files and found handwritten notes from research you did years ago? Before newspapers became available online, finding an obituary often meant visiting a library or archives, locating the appropriate roll of microfilm, and scrolling through pages of a newspaper. During my early genealogy research, I made trips to the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas, where I used their microfilm collection to research Dodge City newspapers. Rather than paying for copies of every article, I often transcribed the information by hand. Sometimes I copied an article almost word for word, while other times I simply recorded the information I considered important. Today's Friday Find is one of those handwritten transcriptions. Ethel A. Lighter Beggs Ethel A. Lighter Beggs is my first cousin twice removed . Our common ancestors are Washington Marion Crawford and his wife, Mary Foster . Ethel was the d...