31 October 2007

Separating Delayed Twins

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I'm not certain why, but the page of three Chicago birth certificates is one of the most popular on my site. One of the certificates is ...

How was Habben read on the 1867 manifest?

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The name was read as "Walelsen." The image in this post shows how the last name appears on the actual record. Our earlier post tod...

Compiled Virginia Civil War Confederate Records

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Footnote has completed digitizing the Compiled Service Records for Virginia during the American Civil War. The image shown here is one of t...

Finding a manifest a second time

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This is part of the 21 Oct 1867 arrival manifest for the Union which landed in New York City. The names are intended to be: Mimke Habben A...

Taking Notes When Photographing Stones

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I wish I had taken better notes when I was taking photographs of tombstones a few years ago at the Buckeye Cemetery in southern Hancock Coun...

Leaving out the details on a death certificate

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You have to love a death certificate like this one from Mercer County, Illinois. The place of birth for Sarah Smith is listed as "Frank...

Can You Read it? (not one of mine...)

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Nancy from the Gen-Newbie mailing list was having difficulty reading the back of this photograph, so I offered to post it here for her. Anyo...
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30 October 2007

Getting Ready for San Antonio

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I am in the final stages of getting ready for the workshop I'll be presenting for the San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society th...

Picture of Nancy Newman Rampley (1846-1923)

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I don't really have a favorite ancestor, but one has to admire Nancy. Her Civil War widow's pension application was rejected at leas...

Trautvetter Portraits

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The image to the left is a photograph of oil portraits paited of George (1798-1871) and Sophia Derle Trautvetter (1808-1877). George was a n...
29 October 2007

Annual ACPL Research Trip May 2008

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We have set the dates for the annual Family History Research trip to the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana: 28 May - 1 June ...

Census Searching Reminders

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All of us at one point in time or another have difficulty locating someone in a census. Juliana Smith just posted my article on Ancestry...
27 October 2007

Minor Naturalizations and Smith Article

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We discussed minor naturalizations today in the workshop in St. Charles. This is the link to the article that was not in the handout: http:/...

Article On Levi Rhodes discussed in St. Charles

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We discussed at the St. Charles workshop today an article on tracking Levi Rhodes from Tennessee into Missouri. The article unfortunately di...
23 October 2007

US Civil War Pensions to be digitized

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For Immediate Release October 23, 2007 National Archives and the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU)Announce Digitizing Partnership Washingto...
22 October 2007

Mapping the Sledds in Kentucky

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The first image in this post in a plat of an estate division from Nicholas County, Kentucky in the 1830s for the estate of Thomas Sledd. Sev...
19 October 2007

Getting Ready for Saratoga Springs, New York

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I'm in the last steps of preparing to leave for a genealogy workshop in Saratoga Springs, New York, sponsored by Heritage Hunters . This...
18 October 2007

Georgia Death Cerficiates online

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Georgia recently uploaded an index of it's death certificates from 1919-1927 . There are many search options, including first and last n...
17 October 2007

The Church in Wiesens

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Doris Reuter has an excellent site for those with Ostfriesen ancestors. It is in German, but the pictures are wonderful. I found the church ...

Get it RIGHT, CNN!

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CNN is reporting the amazing, surprising, totally knock me on the floor fact that two unsuspecting Americans are related after tracing their...
11 October 2007

"The Gipper" dug up for a DNA test

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CNN and several news outlets are reporting that former Notre Dame athlete George Gipp, who inspired the rallying cry "Win one for the G...
10 October 2007

Editing the census...

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The entry for two-year old Noe Gorsuch in Harlem Township, Delaware County, Ohio, contains an editorial comment apparently made after the re...

Reminder for Genealogy Users of Ebay

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Many genealogists use ebay to make a variety of purchaes. Keep in mind when buying books that you may be bidding on a book that is still i...
08 October 2007

More Revolutionary Pensions At Footnote.com

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Footnote.com is now indicating that they have digitized 86% of the Revolutionary War Pensions from the National Archives. I've already f...
06 October 2007

World Vital Records

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Just in case you were not aware...World Vital Records is having a special offer through October 8th. This current offer at World Vital Recor...