21 January 2013

No Birth Place Really Given

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The first image is the index database entry for Thomas Frame from      Ancestry . com 's  "U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 179...
20 January 2013

1948 Voter's Registration Lists for the Henry Fecht Family

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Voters' registrations lists are a wonderful source, particularly after women were given the right to vote. If didn't already know ...
18 January 2013

Sam or Jane?

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Some readers are familiar the  Daily Genealogy Transcriber   another blog I write where daily handwriting samples are posted for followers/f...

Reported Dead--He Lives

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Date:  Wednesday, May 6, 1942   Paper:  Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, WA)--obtained  on  Genealogyba nk.com   I've written abo...
17 January 2013

Retrouve in 1942

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When searching old newspapers, particularly for stories that may have made the wire services, one should not ignore entries in foreign langu...
16 January 2013

Fold3 SSDI and Other Searches Working

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I've been told by my contact at Fold3.com that the problem with the Fold3 SSDI has been corrected. The searches that I had difficulty w...

The Digital Image Was Made From a Transcription

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I've been using the Bureau of Land Management Tract books which recently were released online in digital format at FamilySearch .  ...
15 January 2013

New On FamilySearch 15 January 2013

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The following were released or updated on FamilySearch today 15 January 2013 (the date is actually 16 January on their website): Californ...

Who Thought Seaton Lived in Congarees?

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Estimating dates of residence in a location can be difficult. The earlier the time period, the more difficult it can be. One always has to b...
14 January 2013

What To Do in 2005..Err 2013.

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[note--This is being republished from late 2004. The ideas are just as good now as they were then--none are suggesting you visit a certain w...

He Is a Good Neighbor

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It is not often you find statements from an apparent divorce case published in a newspaper from 1814. It is even more unusual to find one of...
13 January 2013

An 1863 Horse Thief

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James Rampley apparently had his horse stolen in in 1863. A notice was published in the Baltimore Sun  on 27 February 1863--"Look our f...

Can You Find Professor Emeritus

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Before reading this post, remind yourself that the option to performing full-text searches is to search the material yourself, page by page....
12 January 2013

New on FamilySearch 12 January 2013:

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New on FamilySearch 12 January 2013: New York, Frank S. Rowland Church Register, 1889-1917 Arkansas, Probate Records, 1817-1979

Join Michael at the Family History Library in Salt Lake-May 2013

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We've set the dates for our 2013 Family History Research Trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in May. Join us for a week...
11 January 2013

It Was Not Mance After All

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In " Is That Grandma or the Baby " we looked briefly at a census entry whose last entry was either for a 72 year old or a baby--de...

Confusing Webinar Messages

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The service I use to send out webinar emails has gone crazy today. Completely crazy. My apologies to those who have received duplicate ema...

SSDI Has One or No Matches at Fold3.com--Which Is It?

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Update (2:58 pm Central--11 January 2013) : Fold3.com is aware of this issue and the development team is working on it. I don't think th...
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Is That Grandma or the Baby?

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This 1850 census entry from Allegany County, Maryland, is split over two census pages. The enumeration for the household headed by John Flet...
10 January 2013

Harry Shipe in the SSDI--Four Databases--Three Results

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The "Social Security Death Index" often confuses researchers.  The confusion usually centers on someone who is not in the databa...
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Direction Going Forward

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We have received some good comments behind the scenes about the blog and going forward into 2013--thanks. Based upon those, we're goin...
09 January 2013

A Rough Rider Administrates

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We have discussed Rough Rider Heye Albers before, but a search on     Genealogyba nk.com  for him located an additional reference from 19...

New On FamilySearch 9 January 2013

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New on FamilySearch today: Washington, County Naturalization Records, 1850-1982 United States, General Index to Pension Files, 1861-19...

Ira Sargent Breaks His Hip in 1911

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Even seemingly meaningless clippings like this reference to a broken hip can be useful. The Quincy Daily Journal ;  Date: Jul 25, 1911;...
08 January 2013

Updated on FamilySearch 8 January 2013

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The following items were listed as being updated on FamilySearch on 8 January 2013: United States, Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1...