30 July 2007

Trivial References May Be Clues

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Even the slightest reference may be a clue. I already knew my 3rd great-grandmother married after her husband died. If I had not, her signat...
26 July 2007

More on ARC

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Enemy Alien registrations from World War I are also in the ARC database at the National Archives . I've written about these registration...

ARC at the National Archives

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I had a little spare time today and I revisted the National Archives website. I have searched ARC at the National Archives before, but given...

Illinois Marriages

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Researchers should keep in mind that starting in 1877 some Illinois counties asked for names of parents as a part of the marriage applicatio...
17 July 2007

Price of Corn in western Illinois in 1877

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Prices of everything are relative. The image to the right shows the value of a few items from the estate of Mimke Habben in Hancock County,...
10 July 2007

Katharine Wickiser Testimony--page 2

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This is the final page of Katharine Wickiser's testimony from the Revolutionary War Pension file of Elam and Katharine Blain. It indicat...

Katharine Wickiser Revolutionary War Pension Testimony-Page 1

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The image here shows the actual testimony of Katharine Wickiser in the widow's pension application of Katharine Blain, of Delaware Count...
07 July 2007

27 October 2007--St. Charles, Missouri

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We have set the date for our annual "Family History Workshop Day" co-sponsored by the St. Charles County (Missouri) Genealogical S...
06 July 2007

Habbe and Annepka (Ufkes) Habben

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This picture is of Habbe and Annepke (Ufkes) Habben. Habbe was born in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany in 1825 and Annepke was born in 1831. ...
05 July 2007

I really cannot read this one...

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This is one where I really do not know what the first name is. The last name is clearly Adams. The first one I am not so certain of. The fir...
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Pension files contain more than just information on the claimant

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I've been working on the information contained in the Revolutionary Pension of Elam Blain/Blaim/Blair, newfound ancestor of my wife. Thi...
04 July 2007

Stuff on Genealogy Bank

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Genealogy Bank has a great deal of information for the genealogist and the price is fairly reasonable when one considers the quantity of dat...

DNA?

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DNA shows that two men with the same last name do not share a common male ancestor. What does this mean? I don't think it is as clear cu...
03 July 2007

Are You Thinking about Alternate Spellings?

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Sometimes when we start work on a new name or a new family, we forget the things we learned years ago on "old" families. One of t...

Can I Copyright Katharine Wickiser's Maiden Name?

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Discovering Katharine Wickiser's maiden name today was a great find for me. Once you've been researching for a while new names are n...

Katharine Wickiser was a Blaim

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A little searching on Footnote.com located a Revolutionary War Pension affidavit signed by Katharine Wickiser, probably the same Katharine ...
02 July 2007

Proof of Death

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In some locations in some time periods, estate records may include a "proof of death." This was done to hopefully guarantee that t...

Administrator with will annexed

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Typically administrators are appointed because there was no valid will left by the deceased. Yet there are some cases where there is a vali...
28 June 2007

Is DNA that big of a deal?

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For most genealogical problems, how helpful is DNA actually? In my opinion, not very. While I admit there are times where DNA analysis can b...
27 June 2007

"Genealogy is Bunk" is Bunk

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Yes, the phrase "is Bunk" appears twice in the title to this post. I was going to write a long response on my blog to the Richard ...
21 June 2007

Keeping Track of HOW you Got it

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Tracking your research (the title of the book, page, publication date, publisher, etc.) has always been an integral part of research. Howeve...
20 June 2007

Revolutionary Pensions on Footnote

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Footnote.com is increasing their amount of Revolutionary Pensions on their site. The image on the right comes from the pension of Samuel Rh...
19 June 2007

Cleaning Out my Bookshelf

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I am culling duplicate materials from my bookshelves and am offering the following for sale via PayPal to anyone who is interested. Kentucky...
14 June 2007

Still Room in Dearborn, Michigan workshops

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Just in case anyone was on the fence, we still have room in our Genealogy Computer workshops in Dearborn, Michigan next week, Thursday-Satur...

Maps in the American Memory Collection at Library of Congress

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One of the genealogists' most useful of tools are maps. Many are only available in print form on paper. However, a number of railroad (a...