30 December 2010

Family History Library Trip in May 2011 Early Registration Extended

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We've extended the early bird registration deadline for my annual Family History Library (Salt Lake City) Research Trip until 31 Decembe...
29 December 2010

Elmore Drollette in San Francisco Newspaper

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This image of Elmore Drollette San Francisco News Chronicle from August of 1909. His father was George Drollette, uncle of my wife's gr...

Age and Birth Date on Ancestry.com's Canadian Crossings

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Don't get me wrong, I like Ancestry.com and use it daily, but this really has me confused. A match on the Canadian border crossings sh...

Discount Offer on First 68 Issues of Casefile Clues

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For the next 24 hours, you can purchase the first 68 issues of my genealogy how-to newsletter Casefile Clues for $25. That's a lot of g...
27 December 2010

Alfred Butler Pension Card

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I have always been a big fan of the pension payment cards from the National Archives. More specifically, these cards are the Organization In...

Two Cemeteries Have Stones for Same Man

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A search of the Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 turned up two cards for headstones provided apparently ...
26 December 2010

Casefile Clues Year 2's Issues 1-16

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Readers of Rootdig.com know that I write a weekly newsletter, Casefile Clues . Periodically we post information here about Casefile Clues . ...

Ancestry Matches Make Me Wonder

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I have a few trees uploaded on Ancestry.com . Occasionally the "green leaf" matches are helpful, but there are times when I really...
22 December 2010

Daily Genealogy Transcriber

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Don't forget that I post daily "Can you read it?" type problems over on my blog " The Daily Genealogy Transcriber." ...
19 December 2010

Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad Locates George Drollette

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I don't often make really interesting discoveries on relatves overseas. Today I did. Ancestry.com recently released a new set of records...

Santa Clause in Saline County Missouri 1900

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The 1900 Census for Saline County, Missouri, shows Santa Clause as a 13 year old, born in April of 1887 in Missouri living with his parents ...
17 December 2010

Swedish Records on Ancestry.com

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For some reason the image on this post is a blurrier than it is on my actual computer screen. I'm working on a better image. Swedish chu...
15 December 2010

Genealogy Tip of the Day Nominated for Top 40 Blogs

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Our sister site, "Genealogy Tip of the Day," has been nominated for one of the Family Tree Top 40 blogs. Remember that Tip of the ...
13 December 2010

Virgil Burrows Enters the Marines in 1928

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While working on an article for Casefile Clues , I came across this reference on GenealogyBank's Newspaper Archive for Virgil A. Burrow...

Update on Archives.com

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Still no refund on my Archives.com subscription. I don't mind paying for access to databases. What frustrates me is that I was lead to b...
12 December 2010

Archives.com Limits Your Access to NewspaperArchive.com images

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To make consumers aware--Archives.com includes images from NewspaperArchive.com in their search results. Once you've looked at ten of Ne...

Tomorrow Never Came

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I've been playing with the newspaper databases and found this reference to my grandmother's brother. I knew John Trautvetter died i...
09 December 2010

Family History Trip Deadline

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The deadline for my annual Family History Library trip to Salt Lake City's LDS Library in May 2011 is coming up fast. For more details o...
03 December 2010

Tracking Your Searches

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The citation of genealogical sources has come a long way since I first began my genealogical research in the mid-1980s. That's a good th...
02 December 2010

One Day Discount Offer on Family History Library and Ft. Wayne Library Trips

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For the past several years, I've lead research trips to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and the Allen County Public Library...

Passenger List Search for Henry Trautvetter Family

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I thought it would not be too difficult finding the passenger manifest for the family of Henry and Barbara Trautvetter and their family. The...

Rootdig Blog on Kindle

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The Rootdig Blog is now available on your Kindle . Remember that Rootdig is pretty much what crosses my desk as I research, with opinion, su...
01 December 2010

Rootdig for Your Kindle

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The Rootdig.com Blog will be available for Kindle within a few days. We are making some minor changes to the blog with that in mind: Notices...
30 November 2010

German Find on Google Books

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A search for Adam Trautvetter on http://books.google.com turned up a result from a Jahrbuch der Deutsche-Amerikanischen Historischen Gesells...

George Trautvetter in the Civil War & Two Census Images

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I've written briefly about George Trautvetter who was in the Missouri Infantry before. It turns out that there were two George Trautvett...