Michael John Neill's Genealogy Website
Genealogists are human. They will make mistakes. But there are mistakes that result from honest errors and careless typing and there are mistakes that simply defy logic and reasoning. We’ve all seen them and some of us allow our blood pressure to become raised by their very presence: People having children in the 1700s when those […]
[original post regarding these two entries] There are two entries for the marriage of James Rampley and Elizabeth Chaney in the database of Ohio county marriages on FamilySearch. There is a reason and there’s also a reason why one record may be the preferred record over the other. There’s also a reason why it’s good to have […]
A search of the “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013” for James Rampley results in two matches. The entries contain the same information as shown in the image accompanying this post. But why are there two entries for James and Elizabeth in the database? The answer, as we will see in an upcoming post, is not all […]
The following databases are new or updated on FamilySearch: Pennsylvania, Civil Marriages, 1677-1950–only for these locations currently: Allegheny Bucks Lancaster Lehigh Luzerne Montgomery Philadelphia Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013 Missouri, Reports of Separation Notices, 1941-1946–from World War 2–incomplete and alphabetical
I don’t like it when the computer thinks for me. I don’t like it when Google thinks for me either. I’ve been looking for some material on my Goldenstein family which originated in Wrisse, Ostfriesland, Germany. While Google is not the only place to locate such material online, it is a good start. The problem […]
County boundaries are occasionally in flux and sometimes counties come and counties go. That’s what happened with Marquette County, Illinois. This 1847 map of western Illinois will look a little strange to those not aware of 1840 era history of Adams County. In 1843 Marquette County was cut out of the eastern part of the […]
Tamme Tammen didn’t appear in the Nebraska Homestead database at Ancestry.com. Concerned that there might be some sort of data entry error, additional work was conducted. A search of the Bureau of Land Management website for his name was unsuccessful as well (that database contains names homesteaders who received patents for their land). It did locate […]
