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Wills can hint at family squabbles. Researchers need to be careful and not overdramatize the family drama the will suggests. This 3 July 1812 will admitted to probate in Harford County, Maryland in September of 1817 suggests at some family tension. One just has to be careful about reading more into the document than it […]
One finds artwork in the most unusual places. I’m certain this black and white image does not do the original (which I’ve not seen) justice as it is made from a digital image a microfilm copy of the 1803-1809 volume of estate inventories from Harford County, Maryland . This image is of the right hand […]
The brother of an ancestor got drunk and belligerent with his mother. His brothers were unable to restrain him and the county sheriff came and arrested him. He served a month in the county jail. An aunt’s husband attempted to murder her while she was pregnant. He never served jail time and, based upon their […]
My blog update is sent every week and summarizes content posted to all my blogs since the last update was sent. This includes article links from the following blogs: Rootdig Genealogy Search Tip Genealogy Tip of the Day Genealogy Transcriber Additional content: citation of the week tombstone of the week letter of the week photograph of […]
The “view record” page for Harm Fecht on Ancestry.com indicates that he is the only individual living in his household in 1880. It’s easy to see at the very bottom of the image included with this post. When I encountered the record while looking for someone else, I thought it looked strange as I was fairly familiar […]
I’m trying to avoid spinning my wheels on my “new” ancestors Frederick and Maria Barbara Siefert as mentioned in an earlier post. There’s quite a bit I don’t know about them and that impacts how effective my search will be. I’ve decided that there is a reasonable chance that there may be something more about […]
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The drawback to making discoveries is that one wants to follow up on them immediately. I’m trying to avoid that temptation with Frederick and Maria Barbara Siefert, my newly discovered parents of Barbara (Siefert) Bieger Fennan Haase Haase. Diving in before I’ve given some thought to what I know about this couple (and what I […]
[screen shots in this post were taken on 17 February 2016] Changing the order of things can confuse the user and that’s what Ancestry.com apparently does when one “mouses over” search results from some census enumerations. While searching for Barbara Haas in the 1860 census for Hancock County, Illinois, I ended up searching for all females […]
