13 October 2012

Great-Great-Grandma's Facebook Status-Maybe

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Ancestry.com is touting their new Facebook application In honor of that, I've dreamed up a little genealogy game/meme or whatever it...
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Does Ancestry.com Know Their Illinois Counties?

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It's frustrating when Ancestry.com is challenged geographically. It's even more frustrating when it involves my own research. It...

Update: Ancestry.com Does Know Where Bowen Isn't

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An earlier blog post indicated that Ancestry.com had incorrectly classified the 1936 "Bowenite" yearbook from a Chicago area scho...

Sow Ten Acres of Spring Wheat in 1918

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This item was also obtained from the    University of Illinois has the  Farm, Field, and Fireside-Agricultural Newspaper Collection  and was...

He's a Buck He Is-The Answer to the Census Name

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Here is a more complete image that was the center of yesterday's post " What Is That Name? " It's pretty clear from a mo...

They Are of the Worst Class of People

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A search of GoogleBooks located a reference to the Mississippi murder and robber that Absalom Hooper was involved in. This item was located ...
12 October 2012

What Is That Name?

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What is the name of this head of household? We'll have the answer--and how Ancestry.com indexed it--in a later post. Stay tuned.....
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11 October 2012

Abfalom Hooper Was the Name

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This is another account of the 1773 incident involving Absalom Hooper and several of his associates . The difficulty in locating this item w...

Whites Killed--Blacks Wounded--The Absalom Hooper Incident of 1773

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A quick search on    Genealogyba nk.com    for our Absalom Hooper located some additional references to the incident--these providing more d...

A Murder in West Florida and a Stooping Relative

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This is going to take a little bit of work, but the reference does indicate some associates of my wife's probable ancestor, Absalom Hoo...

1852 California State Census Asks Previous Residence

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Did you know that the 1852 California State Census asked for "last residence?" Good information to have. 1852 California State...
10 October 2012

Rufus D Stephens Horse Claim from War of 1812

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The researcher at the National Archives found some partial information on the Rufus D Stephens War of 1812 horse claim.  Details are mini...
09 October 2012

Links to Old Research Guides at FamilySearch

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On Genealogy Tip of the Day, I did a blog post with quite a few links to the research guides that were formerly on the FamilySearch website....

Are the Research Guides at FamilySearch Gone?

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I'm hoping that I am wrong, but it looks like the Research Guides at FamilySearch have been removed, having been completely incorporated...

Tracking Down a Policeman's Career

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Entry for Frank Vanderlinden, 1895 Chicago City Directory, obtained on  Fold3  . Frank Vanderlinden was a Chicago City police officer f...

Why You Should Get Away From The Trees

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Several years ago, I made a "discovery" of the maiden name of one of my children's ancestors--a lady born about 1790 on the Ea...
08 October 2012

Basco Bulldogs 1930-1931

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I remembered that I had this photograph from 1930-1931 with unidentified people in it. I'm reposting it--the guys are the "Basc...

Were the Frames in the Fire?

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1870 U S Federal Census, Cook County, Chicago, Ward 4, page 246--obtained on   Ancestry.com I initially reviewed this 1870 census entry...

You Can Just Type It In

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Our recent post about place names at Ancestry.com brought some behind-the-scenes responses from readers. Yes, you can just type in the lo...
07 October 2012

One More Sledd Slave Incident Account

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Searches for more on the Sledd who murdered a slave in Bedford County, Virginia around 1810 located an additional reference on GenealogyBan...

$90,000 in Her Purse

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Date:  Thursday, March 3, 1955   Paper:  Register-Republic (Rockford, IL)--obtained on  Genealogyba nk.com I don't think I...
06 October 2012

More Down Home Places Ancestry.com's Never Heard Of

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Sometimes I just think Ancestry.com's not all that worried about those of us with ancestors who lived in rural America. They just cannot...
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How Fast Do Blog Posts Get Into Google Search?

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Blog posts made on Blogger.com apparently turn up in search results within a minute. A minute after making my post about Cyndi Howells...

Cyndi Howells' Missing Keys

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This is a joke that has been turned into a test to see how fast this blog post shows up in google searches. My genealogy friend Cyndi Howe...
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05 October 2012

Citing the Barn

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Here is how I decided to "cite" the barn that has the year of immigration for one of my families that was mentioned in an earlier ...