24 February 2009

McDonough County, Illinois Genealogical Society 15 June 2009

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I will be presenting "Brick Walls from A to Z" at the monthly meeting of the McDonough County, Illinois, Genealogical Society on 1...

Knox County, Illinois Genealogical Society Meeting 9 March 2009

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I will be making a presentation at the monthly meeting of the Knox County Genealogical Society on 9 March 2009 on "Brick Walls From A t...
19 February 2009

Village Genealogical Society-Hot Springs Village, Arkansas

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I will be the presenter at the Village Genealogical Society's annual workshop on 21 March 2009 in Hot Springs Village Arkansas. I will ...
17 February 2009

U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 at Ancestry.com

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Ancestry.com has recently added U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 to their library of databases. A quick sear...
10 February 2009

1870 Census on Family Search-Location Searches

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Maybe I'm just really obtuse, but if it is there I am overlooking it. Is there a way on the 1870 census at FamilySearch to search for Jo...
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09 February 2009

Classification Record

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This is part of my grandpa Neill's World War II Classification record received from Selective Service. I never looked at it in as much ...

Chicago Area Vital Records on Family Search

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Family Search has announced that the following is on its site and presently is 62% complete. 1878-1922 Birth Records for Cook County, Illin...
07 February 2009

Case File Clues

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I've been writing for Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter since the end of 2008. To help keep me organized and to assist read...
03 February 2009

More Can they Read?

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This is the last one. I can't decide whether to laugh uncontrollably or become seized in a fit of anger. John Newman was supposedly bor...

Can People Even Read?

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I am so thrilled to learn that my ancestors were saving their embryos in 18th century Maryland. Apparently Walter Newman died in 1729. His ...

More articles on Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

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Another "Casefile Clues" column has been published in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. This one focuses on a series of q...
29 January 2009

Prairie Patrimony

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I have always been a big fan of this book and have mentioned it in numerous lectures. It is the study of farming and inheritance trends in s...
28 January 2009

Working on Illinois Mental Health Records

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My current project (on the big long list) is to try and get the mental health records of Ira Sargent from the Illinois state hospitals in Ba...
27 January 2009

1886 Hancock County Directory Being Reprinted

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I am again reprinting the 1886 Directory of Hancock County, Illinois. This book was originally published in Burlington, Iowa, by T Wright. T...
26 January 2009

A Few Spaces Left

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We have just a few spaces left in our May 2009 genealogical research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Our trip size is ...
24 January 2009

From Squire to Prince

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From Squire to Prince; Being a History of the Rise of the House of Cirksena (published in 1901) is one of the books I discovered on Archive....

Hancock County, Illinois Books on Archive.org

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For those looking for Hancock County, Illinois books on Archive.org: History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history o...

Images from Archiveorg

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I've been playing with the scans of books on Archive.org . There are a great number of books scanned on this site. There are five scanne...

Columns for Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

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The following are my columns for Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter that have gone "live" since I started writing for East...
22 January 2009

Currently Open Famous Census Search Contests

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Currently open Famous Census Search Contests: Mae West 1930 Spencer Tracy 1920 Richard Nixon 1930 Georgia O'Keeffe 1930 Glenn Miller 192...

Famous Census Search Update

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We announced our latest Famous Census Search contest earlier this week and so far no winners or submissions. Richard Nixon in 1930 is the l...
20 January 2009

Genealogical Society of Southern Illinois--17 Oct 2009

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I will be presenting a seminar for the Genealogical Society of Southern Illinois on 17 October 2009 in Carterville, Illinois. Topics and oth...
14 January 2009

Genealogy Computing Week 2009

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We still have openings in our week-long series of genealogy workshops at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois, during 9-13 March 200...
08 January 2009

First Winner in our Famous Census Search Contest

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I'm a little bit delayed in posting this, but we have our first winner in the "Find the famous person in the census" contest: ...
05 January 2009

Census Search Contests

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Our find the famous person in the census contests have returned and have been announced on our sister site, www.famouscensus.com . 1930 Hank...