30 August 2011

Gloria Fecht-1948 Ice Follies

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It took some searching, but The Billboard , 29 Dec 1947 (page 4) contains an article on the "Ice Follies of 1948." The articl...
28 August 2011

John Cheney Drives Cattle Across the Plains in 1852

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Cattle Across the Plains You have to love obituaries that mention nothing about a man's family. This 1909 obituary for John Chene...
27 August 2011

These Ancestors Cannot Be Displayed

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These Ancestors cannot be displayed The ancestors you are looking for are currently unavailable. They may be hiding in offline resou...

My "Daily" Blogs

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For those who were not aware, I have three daily blogs: Genealogy Tip of the Day Daily Genealogy Transcriber Search Tip of the Day --(n...

Kansas City Gang Kills Relative

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I've mentioned the murder of Ben Siebels before, but it has been a while. The murder of Siebels was tragic and had a profound impact o...

Exhaustive Searches are Also for Learning

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Sound genealogical research requires an "exhaustive search" of the records available on the ancestor or family in question. I...
25 August 2011

Newspaper Photo of Gloria Fecht from 1951

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It's taken a little while, but I've located one of the better pictures of Gloria Fecht using digital images of newspapers on  G...
24 August 2011

Gotta Watch Those Genders-Finding Hedvig Olson

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This is the index entry for Hedvig C. Olson in the New York Passenger Lists 1820-1897 at Ancestry.com . Her gender is shown in the inde...

Ancestry.com Updates Swedish Church Record Collection

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Ancestry.com recently updated its Swedish Church Record Collection . The database is not searchable based on name (ever tried reading those ...

Yearbooks Contain Several Things

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This advertisement comes from  James Bowen Harvey High School 1925 yearbook, recently released on Ancestry.com in it's Yearbook Collec...
23 August 2011

A Refugee From the Ice Follies

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I'll be honest, I really didn't believe my grandmother when she said her relative Gloria Fecht was a famous ice-skater. I guess...
22 August 2011

Age in Months in 1880

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I've often seen ages listed in fractions of a year 1/12, 2/12, etc. but it is not often that I see an age listed as a fraction of...

Gloria Fecht-Ice Skating Star--It She A Relative?

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One would think that a name like Gloria Fecht would be uncommon enough. Despite how uncommon the name appears one cannot be too careful. I...

Tracking The Tract

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Tracking The Tract [originally appeared in the Ancestry Daily News  on 10 April 2003] When I first began researching my family lines, I...

4 Things to Try and Read

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I've gotten a little behind in updating "Genealogy Transcriber of the Day." There is still time to make your guesses or commen...

A Special Execution in 1861

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By virtue of a special execution is a loaded phrase, but it likely means the execution of a judgement. It appears, based upon this newspap...
21 August 2011

Employing Those Cheap Female Teachers

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This snippet comes from a report of the "School Commissioner" for Winnebago County, Illinois, published in the 5 March 1851 Rockfo...

Casefile Clues Special Offer--52 for 12

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Sunday we're offering a year of my weekly newsletter  Casefile Clues for $12 . Samples can be downloaded as PDF files here: sample 1...
20 August 2011

Have You Got Your Deed?

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This image comes from GenealogyBank.com 's version of the Rockford [Illinois]Forum of 9 January 1850. Apparently the former recorder had...

Asa Landon--1850 Era School Teacher

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The wonderful thing about newspapers is that one really has no idea what discoveries one will make until searches are done. This gem, whic...

Asa Landon on the Mail Call in 1850

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It wasn't an earth shattering discovery in this case, but A search on GenealogyBank.com located a reference to Asa Landon on a list of ...

Newspaper Lover--and His Home is For Sale

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One just never knows what one will locate when searching newspapers. This picture of George K. Freund appeared in the 20 July 1924 Davenpo...

Death of Joseph A. Oades in 1885

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A search on GenealogyBank.com for Joseph Oades in Nebraska located one item of interest--a notice of his death from the Omaha World Her...
19 August 2011

Footnote.com Becomes Fold3

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Words elude me on this one. While it's already done, it really seems like this name change makes an even bigger statement than the cha...
14 August 2011

Does Ancestry.com Know the UK Death Index is Quarterly

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One of the personal frustrations I had with using the index to civil records in England is the fact that the indexes are quarterly--every th...