30 April 2009

the Flu, Guardianships, and Court Records

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I discovered a court case that was appealed to the Illinois State Supreme Court while searching on Google books. I have included part of the...
29 April 2009

Typo on CNN home page

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Ok, it has nothing to do with genealogy, but just goes to show that errors can creep up anywhere. Can anyone spot the error on the part of C...
28 April 2009

1870 Census at Pilot Family Search Site

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Ok, is it just me or is there no way to search by location? I am searching for someone I know is in the census, just to "prove" th...
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Partial 1920 Census Index Free at Family Search

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FamilySearch's Pilot Site recently released a partial index to the 1920 census . I am always glad when datasets get a new index, especia...

1892 New York State Census

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FamilySearch's Pilot site recently released an unindexed version of the 1892 New York State Census. The image shown on this screen shot...

Booking Speaking Engagements

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I am booking speaking engagements for seminars and workshops for the rest of 2009 and 2010. The following dates/weekends are already booked:...
23 April 2009

German word I cannot quite make out.

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I'm working on a Casefile Clues column and cannot quite make out the word in yellow on this baptismal entry from the Bethany United Chu...
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Michael is on Twitter

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For now, I am on twitter http://twitter.com/mjnrootdig I'll post short occasional updates there about the website, articles, research, e...
21 April 2009

BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy

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I will be making four presentations at the 2009 Conference on Family History and Genealogy on the campus of Brigham Young University at the ...
20 April 2009

Genealogy Tip of the Day

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Life got me woefully behind on my " Genealogy Tip of the Day ." I am in the process of updating it now, but I have quite a few day...
16 April 2009

Philip Troutfetter Divorce

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I finally received the divorce papers for Philip Troutfetter yesterday from the Colorado State Archives. The image that appears on this post...

Illinois State Genealogical Society Conference October 24, 2009

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I will be the featured speaker at the 2009 Illinois State Genealogical Society Conference on 24 October in Elgin, Illinois. More details wil...
15 April 2009

Sun City-Huntley Illinois

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It was nice to meet the folks at Sun City in Huntley, Illinois, on the evening of the 14th. WorldCat- http://www.worldcat.org Archive of sca...
09 April 2009

Expert Connect at Ancestry.com

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There has been much discussion on the APG (Association of Professional Genealogists) mailing list and others regarding the upcoming "Ex...
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07 April 2009

Seattle Washington

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I was in Seattle, Washington, last weekend for the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians. It was a whirlwind. I gave...
04 April 2009

1930 Famous Census Images

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For those who are interested, we have started slowly adding our 1930famous census images to our site. We have 1930 census for: John Kennedy ...
03 April 2009

Corrections at Ancestry.com

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When I see an error at Ancestry.com , I usually take the time to report it. Sometimes I do this just because I might want to find the item a...
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02 April 2009

Wildcards at Ancestry and Footnote

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Footnote.com lets searchers perform wildcard searches with just two initial letters. This is different from Ancestry.com which requires se...

1930 Census at Footnote

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Footnote.com 's 1930 census index is now 84% complete. There are some neat features on this site, particularly the "I'm Related...
26 March 2009

Paper or Plastic?

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In a banquet speech that must have been at least ten years ago, I made the following comment (which is fiction, by the way): "After Smi...

Footnote's 1930 Census and "omit" OCR searches

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Footnote.com released it's 1930 census index and images today. Interactivity is higher here than with images at other sites. Some will ...
23 March 2009

1940 Census Substitute?

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I am wondering outloud here: Why did Ancestry.com release what they are calling a 1940 census substitute ? The actual 1940 census will be ...
21 March 2009

Village Genealogical Society

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Thanks to the Village Genealogical Society for having me speak at their seminar today. I had a good time and I hope all the attendees did as...
18 March 2009

Philip Troutfetter's Colorado Divorce

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It did not take me as long to find it as I thought. Regular readers know that I'm searching for information on Phillip Troutfetter, a co...

Update on Accessing Michigan Vital Records Online

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I don't even have ancestors in Michigan and I'm trying to get into this site. Miriam Robbins Midkiff's blog mentioned a back-doo...