29 June 2012

Citing What I Did Not Find

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The next issue of Casefile Clues contains the following statement: " They [James and Elizabeth Rampley] are the only Rampley family...
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Frustrations and Requests for Ancestry.com

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(this is the text of an email I posted to the APG mailing list earlier today--so if you are on that list, quit reading now). Ancestry.com...
28 June 2012

You Have to Love Correlation-Swedish Departure Lists and NYC Arrival Lists

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You have to love it when records can be correlated. It makes things so much easier. It also allows the researcher to confirm that the ...

1940 Census Indexes at FamilySearch

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Here's a list of states (and territories ) that have been indexed in the 1940 census at FamilySearch. Email me at mjnrootdig@gmail.com ...
27 June 2012

An 1825 Patent Issued in 1961

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This is an atypical patent that was obtained on the Bureau of Land Management website for Aquilla Jones. Apparently the patent was to have b...

Chronologies--Use Them

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Ancestry.com recently notified me that someone had linked the passenger list entry for my children's ancestor to a Swedish immigrant to ...
26 June 2012

Finding the Fuzz or Fwzuffzzzzwwzwozvtuvvvzz

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They were not kidding when the description of the "United States, World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946" indicated there...
25 June 2012

Before You Hire Someone to Research

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My advice (short for now): If someone wants you to hire them to research for you and their website includes: No physical address (not ev...
20 June 2012

Revolutionary War Pensions--Do You Search Them for Everyone?

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I've written about the American Revolutionary War pensions on Fold3.com before. I've made several finds in this series of records a...

FindAGrave or Billiongraves: You Decide

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Judy Russell took a look at the terms of use for FindaGrave and for Billiongraves. Reading the terms of use for any site to which you submi...
15 June 2012

My Blogs

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I currently write and maintain the following blogs: Genealogy Tip of the Day  http://genealogytipoftheday.blogspot.com/ Genealogy Transc...
14 June 2012

A Few Germanic Links on Ancestry.com

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I'm wrapping up my presentations for the Palatines to America conference and am posting a few links to the blog for the benefit of those...

German Topographic Maps at Ancestry.com

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Ancestry.com has scanned images of several German maps. The image in this blog post comes from the 1901 set of maps--  Germany, Topographic ...

Adressbuch der Provinz Hannover-1898

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I've been wrapping up a few presentations and realized/remembered that Ancestry.com has an 1898 directory on their site ( Handels- und G...
13 June 2012

Is There a Two-Day Error?

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This is part of the death certificate of Minerva (Sargent) Strobel who died in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, on 6 March 1943. The dea...
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Changing Results on Google Books

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At least when I open a book today the pages are all the same as yesterday. That's not always true with the internet. In 2011 a searc...
10 June 2012

Case Study Webinars

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I've long been a believer in case studies as a means to learn genealogy. In fact, I presented two at the recent Genealogy Jamboree 2012 ...

Jamboree 2012 Wrap-Up

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The 2012 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree just wrapped up about an hour ago. It was a great experience. Paula H., Vicki H., and the ...
08 June 2012

Defining the Borders of Nicholas County, Kentucky

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As mentioned in an earlier blog post, a change in the county boundary between Nicholas and Bourbon County, Kentucky, made my ancestors' ...

$5 Webinar Sale

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Our $5 webinar sale is back! All presentations are made by Michael John Neill. Our style is informal and informative with the intent on ...
07 June 2012

June 2012 Webinars

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We are offering the following genealogy webinars in June 2012: Crossing the Pond--Part 2 Making Corrections to Your Ancestry.com Tree A...

U.S., Consular Registration Applications, 1916-1925

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Ancestry.com recently announced the database U.S., Consular Registration Applications, 1916-1925 on their site. I can't tell if this is...
06 June 2012

Looking for Theodore and Margaret Hoontes in Clinton County, New York 1925 and 1940

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Ancestry.com recently released the 1925 New York State Census along with the New York State index to the 1940 census index . Based upon thi...

A Plea to Ancestry.com

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It won't do any good, but I'll feel better. The image with this post is from Ancestry.com's home page today. Two things abou...
05 June 2012

Getting Grandma's 2008 Death Certificate

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My maternal grandmother died in Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida, in 2008. For a variety of reasons, I never bothered to obtain an actual ...