30 November 2007

Cousin Acquitted in 1903...The Troutfetter story continues

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I made a neat little find in the newspapers at World Vital Records today. I learned that my relative was acquitted by a Colorado Springs C...
29 November 2007

A Presidential Pension

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One of my recent discoveries on the Civil War Pension Index at Footnote.com was the index card for Ulyssse S. Grant, who would later be Un...

Ordering US Civil War Pension Records

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There are two ways to order pension and military records from the US National and Records Administration: 1) Order online 2) Request an Orde...
28 November 2007

Footnote's searches...

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Footnote.com has improved its search. Unfortunately, there's a slight problem--at least for me. I try and search for Samuel Rhodes. Foot...
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26 November 2007

Carl Sandburg's Passport Application

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In 1918, poet and Galesburg, Illinois, native Carl Sandburg applied for a passport to travel to Europe. His application and the documentati...
20 November 2007

Passport Application sample

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This passport sample from 1922 indicates that the applicant was born in Switzerland and provides the name of his father and the date of immi...

US Passport Applications at Ancestry.com 1795-1925

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Ancestry.com has released US Passport Applications and images 1795-1925 . We'll post more information and a sample or two after I've...

Footnote's searching....

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Ok, this is just about like a disease, I can't stop. I searched Footnote.com's " Civil War Pension Index " for "ufke...

Footnote's Improving their Search?

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It might be just a fluke, but I noticed when I searched Footnote.com's " Civil War Pension Index " for the last name of Trout...

Footnote's Civil War Pension Index

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Footnote.com calls is the Civil War Pension index , but it is worth remembering that there are references in this finding aid to other indi...

Torn Manifest Article

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Ancestry.com's blog ran my "torn manifest" article yesterday and it can be viewed in a printer friendly version on their site ...
19 November 2007

Watch those toes and shadows

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This picture taken by my daughter a few years ago makes two important points. Watch your shadow and avoid getting it on the stone. Of course...

Get Some Perspective

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I've been reviewing several tombstone photographs we took several years ago. There are a few things I would do differently: take a pictu...
16 November 2007

Phone Registration Open for Genealogical Computing Week

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Phone-in registration for our 10th annual Genealogy Computing Week at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois has begun. Our offerings ...

The Importance of Going One Step at a Time

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There is a reason that genealogists are told to work from the present to the past and not to "skip around." My wife's great-gr...
15 November 2007

The baby died at sea

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The screen clips here are a little small, but parts are shown of two pages from the manifest of the Hermann, which arrived in New Orleans on...

Checking out those multiple marriages

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I had the date and place of the marriage from an index, but I had never seen the original document. I obtained a copy during my last trip t...

Why it pays to search all the siblings

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Even when you think you "know everything" on a certain family, searching for information on the siblings is still a good idea. The...
14 November 2007

Comparing Civil War Pension Index Cards

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Ancestry.com has a Civil War Penions index. So does Footnote.com . There is a difference. The Ancestry.com index comes from the National A...

Rothweilers in St. Louis-Wilhelmina and George

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This is the 1860 census entry for George and Wilhelmina Rothweiler in St. Louis' second ward. George is 35 years old and Wilhelmina is 2...

Nancy Jane Newman (1846-1923)

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They must have made them sit forever to have their picture taken. Nancy Jane Newman Rampley (1846-1923) is pictured in this post. The photo...

Oil portrait from the 1860s

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I not certain when it was painted or who painted it, but the picture here is one taken of oil portraits of John George (1798-1871) and Sophi...

Looking for Clark Sargent of Winnebago County, Illinois

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Clark Sargent purchased federal land in Winnebago County, Illinois on 1 March 1848. I think he died shortly thereafter and the Mrs. Mary Sar...

Declarations of Intent pre-1906

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When I was in Salt Lake last May , one of my goals was to search for some declarations of intent and other naturalization documents on a few...
11 November 2007

Living after death?

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You have to love the entries you find in some online files. While searching for an ancestor, I found the following entry. I've changed t...