Jun 17 2014
by Carol Cooke Darrow With summer almost here, your thoughts may be turning to a road trip to visit the “hometown” of some of your ancestors. If you have identified the county and even the township, post office or village that they called home, you may find a cache of old records about your ancestors that you were unaware of. You will want to …
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May 05 2014
Most people know that the military provides burial honors for veterans but may not know about the online availability of some of the earlier applications for headstones of military personnel. National cemeteries in the U.S. go back to 1862 when the government began to establish cemeteries to honor Union war dead. Congress later extended the privilege of government-provided gravestones to soldiers buried …
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Apr 02 2014
I avoided Genealogy Blogs for as long as I could. Now I’m not sure why. It’s just another way to share and obtain genealogical information. Each blog has it’s own personality and focus, which portrays the vast array of information available. With all this at your fingertips, there is a whole new world of genealogy …
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Mar 25 2014
The best thing you can do for your family history is to preserve what you know about your earliest relatives. In many cases you may be the only person who remembers those stories and facts. Think of what a treasure you can create for your children and grandchildren! A treasure that otherwise might be lost …
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Mar 03 2014
Many new family researchers insist that their surname has always been spelled the “correct” way – just as they spell it today. Because they hold fast to that belief, they often miss records of their ancestors.
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Feb 03 2014
DNA genealogy tests have progressed in the last five years since the first genetic genealogy home test introduction in 2000. Starting with a basic 12 marker male test in 2000, an ancestor correlation going back to twelve generations could be established with about 50% accuracy. Today, there are 111 male markers with over 95% accuracy …
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Feb 03 2014
America was rich in land. It was the land of milk and honey. It was the land of opportunity. Land was the most important draw for immigrants coming from a world where land was owned only by the rich and noble. For over 275 years, from 1620 to 1900, land was available at a relatively …
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Jan 05 2014
The most common question I’m asked these days is, “Is it online?” And amazingly enough, it certainly may be online. Since 2004, when the first every name index to family members in censuses from 1850 onward was posted by Ancestry.com, we’ve come a long way in just 10 years. Ancestry.com has continued to add amazing …
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Dec 10 2013
Becoming an American citizen was a very big event in our ancestors’ lives, and finding the records that document that event can be a very rewarding event in a genealogist’s life. However, naturalization records are not always easy to locate. This is because before 1906, the naturalization process was not standardized. Although the process varied …
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Dec 10 2013
We have the names of our ancestors and we have the dates of their birth, marriage and death. We may know that they owned a farm, had ten children, and lived in a particular town, county, and state. Then we’re stumped. We want to know what kind of person he was. Was he a successful …
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Dec 10 2013
When you are looking at a marriage record, you expect to find the names of the bride and groom, the county and state issuing the marriage license and the name of the person performing the ceremony. Perhaps you may also find the names of witnesses. But a family researcher was surprised by the handwritten note …
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Dec 10 2013
My friend and I were talking about how fast the summer had flown by and she mentioned how much she used to enjoy family trips to a watermelon stand when she was a child. There were long tables spread out beside a country road and big washtubs filled with ice and watermelons. Her whole family …
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