18 March 2007

Using the 1885 Nebraska State Census

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Searching for Tamme Tammen in the 1885 Nebraska State Census was not the easiest thing to do. Fortunately for Nebraska in 1885 there are far...
17 March 2007

Articles on French-Canadian Research

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I've posted a few articles on French-Canadian research on my site, particularly focusing on my wife's family who came to upstate New...

Can You Read It?

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This also comes from an early 18th century Amherst County, Virginia deed. However, this is not exactly someone's name, but a phrase that...
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Can You Read It?

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While not a signature, this name comes from an early eighteenth century deed in Amherst County, Virginia. The tail on the first letter of th...
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Drouin Collection at Ancestry.com

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Ancestry is offering temporary free access to its digitized version of the Drouin Collection. This is an excellent source for those research...

Name Games

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First and last names can create all kinds of problems for the genealogist. Two older articles on our site discuss concerns family historians...
15 March 2007

1900 Census--Ty Cobb

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The future baseball player is 12 years old and living at home with his parents in Georgia. Like many census enumerations, this one is split ...
14 March 2007

New Brunswick Newspaper Database

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The Database of Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers is available on the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick website. The databa...

Rev. James Bennett--St. John, New Brunswick

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I have a copy of it, but it's buried in my filing cabinet and admittedly never been computerized--the transcription of the marriage anno...

Alfred Hitchcock arrives in the US in 1937

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Sailing on the Queen Mary, the family of Alfred Hitchcock arrived in New York in 1937 . You can search for your relatives--who probably had...

Online Registration for FGS 2007 Ft. Wayne

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Online registration for the annual Federation of Genealogical Societies' 2007 conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this August is now opera...

Presentation in Princeton, Illinois 29 March 2007

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Due to a scheduling conflict on my part, the Bureau County folks have graciously changed their meeting date to the 29th of March 2007 at the...

Pickles in 1900

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We can't always locate the ketchup in our house, but I did manage to find Henry Heinz in the 1900 census . H J Heinz and his oldest son ...

1900 Willa Cather

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In 1900 Willa Cather was a newspaper reporter living in Phildelphia . The author of O Pioneers , My Antonia , and other novels of the wester...

1920 Census--Grandma from the Waltons (Ellen Corby)

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Did you know that Grandma from the Waltons (Ellen Corby) was born in Wisconsin of Norwegian parents and grew up in Pennslyvania? I sure did...

1920 Census-Anthony Quinn

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His real name was Antonio Quine (at least in the 1920 census). Those of us with ancestors for whom English was not their native language mus...

The Voice of Snow White in 1930

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Her father was a voice teacher, so I guess Andriana Caselotti got her talent naturally. Fortunately the apple that didn't fall far from ...
13 March 2007

Harry Houdini didn't escape from the manifest

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Harry Houdini returned to the United States on board the Imperator in 1920 . Obviously he didn't escape from the manifest and hopefully ...

Can You Read It?

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This comes from a 1860s era probate in Chariton County, Missouri. It is the listing of a person who purchased property at the estate sale. ...

Federal Land Patents

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An article I wrote several years ago about the Bureau of Land Management webs ite is still accurate--thankfully they leave the search interf...

Can You Read It?

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From an estate settlement in the 1860s in Chariton County, Missouri. Feel free to post a guess--it's not too hard.
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Looking for Images of Farm Implements?

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I just had a thought... Those who are looking for images of those items mentioned in an estate settlement from the 1800s or so might want to...

Patent Searches at Google

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Don't forget that US patents can be searched at Google. A search of one of my wife's surnames turned up a relative of hers being a w...

Candy is Dandy, but Ogden's Not Legal

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Ogden Nash penned "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but he probably had not written it at the time of this 1920 census enum...

1920 Census--Jazz Great Louis Armstrong

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The 1920 census found Louis Armstrong living with his mother in a boarding house in New Orleans . The 19 year old is listed as being employe...