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Michael John Neill's genealogy website. Things that cross my path, general research suggestions, and whatever else ...with a little bit of attitude. I don't post "news" just to post it, never post a press release (edited or otherwise), don't feign excitement, and pretty much say what I think.

13 May 2012

Was 1849 A Leap Year?

The answer is no. Why does it matter? Well the tombstone of Rebecca Mullin, discussed in a previous post , indicates she died on 29 Febr...

Was Her Name Too Long for the Stone?

Rebecca Mullen of Delaware County, Ohio, made out a deposition in 1848 in the Revolutionary War pension application of Catharine Blain, wido...

NBC Doesn't Pick Up WDYTYA

I'll be honest, I've never been a fan of the WDYTYA series which was recently not picked up for another season by NBC . Some have al...

Is That Really Great Great Grandma?

Provenance means knowing how a record, document, or picture came down to the present time. Do you know how authentic that picture of great-g...

12 May 2012

Mother's Day Webinar Special

In honor of Mother's Day, I have bundled four of my genealogical webinars together at a discount rate. Researching Female Ancestors-...

11 May 2012

No Answers

So far, no real answers to several things about various websites that I personally find either frustrating or confusing. FamilySearch da...

Employment Records Provide an Unexpected Clue

There's a reason why genealogists recommend that an exhaustive search be conducted. This employment card from the Chicago, Illinois, ...

10 May 2012

That "of" Makes a Big Difference

One always has to take transcriptions with a grain of salt. In readying myself for a presentation in a few weeks, I was reviewing informati...

08 May 2012

What Am I Searching When I Search ""Ohio County Birth Records" at FamilySearch

I am glad for the databases that FamilySearch makes available to the public at no charge. However, I do like to know what I am searching. ...

Cleaning House on Webinars-$5 offer

My webinar hosting service has a sliding scale and to keep my hosting fees down I'm going to be culling the items for sale. I'm of...

What Are You Missing By Relying on Those Ancestry.com Leaves?

Sometimes I wish I understood the leaves on Ancestry.com. In getting ready for a seminar, I was using Ancestry.com's tree to save and ...

07 May 2012

Aiming for Alaim Blain's Muster Roll

I'll admit that I did not know what a dragoon was. The first image in this post is the heading from the roll from Captain John Heard...

05 May 2012

Four New Webinars--Sale Price--Save $11.00

We have just released our latest series of webinars: Charts, Charts and More Charts Google Docs Proving Ellen What Is Unwritten You...

Charts, Charts, and More Charts Webinar Released

Charts, Charts, and More Charts discusses a variety of charts that can be used to organize your research. No family group or pedigree charts...

Google Docs and Proving Florence Webinars Released

Google Docs This webinar discussed using Google Docs, particularly sharing, collaborating, and publishing your content on your blog, websi...

9 May Deadline for BigWill Seminar in Richmond, IL

BIGWILL is sponsoring an all-day seminar with Michael John Neill two weeks from today. We need to charge a small fee ($10 for BIGWILL membe...

Brick Walls From A to Z-The First One-Slides

The presentation below contains the slides from my first "Brick Walls from A to Z" webinar which was presented last year. There...

Proving Florence Power Points

These is a rough draft of the slides that went with the Proving Florence Webinar today. This was uploaded as "practice" during o...

04 May 2012

Survey Plats

The settling of estates frequently requires surveys and metes and bounds descriptions of property, regardless of whether the property is i...

03 May 2012

Do You Always Look at the Right Hand Page in 1840?

All of have probably forgotten to do this at one time or another--look at the right hand side of the census page for the 1840 enumeration....

02 May 2012

The Will Means I Need to Look at Deeds

Sections 4 and 5 of the will of Mimken[sic] L. Habben, written in Hancock County, Illinois on 12 September 1876 and admitted to probate in...

30 April 2012

Genealogy Typos

Anyone have any genealogy typos that are especially funny? When wrapping up the next issue of Casefile Clue s, I made the mortality census t...

Elam Blain's Revolutionary War Pension-Getting Organized

October 4th 1847 Elam Blain Galena Delaware County Ohio "Dear Sir I take this Opportunity to inform you that Some time Last ...

25 April 2012

Nothing Here to See--Move Along

I'd probably have a lot more traffic and followers on this site if I: Wrote about every new website, book, blog, etc. that came out. ...

Last Set of $5 Webinars-Land, Naturalization, and More

Now through 9 AM Central Standard Time (US) 27 April 2012, we're offering our $5 rate on our last set of discount genealogy webinars. ...

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