Michael John Neill's Genealogy Website
Using Fold3.com Date/Time: 9 April 2016—Saturday—11:00 am central time. This presentation will include an overview of the content available on Fold3.com, interacting with the user interface, creating effective search strategies, download and saving content, and more. See how to get more out of a Fold3.com subscription. Download the presentation and handout. If you registered for […]
Reprinted from an article I wrote from the Ancestry Daily News — 23 November 1998 Just as there’s more to genealogy that family group charts, there’s more to discussing genealogy with young children than having them look at pedigree charts or fill out worksheets. What follows are some suggestions for bringing about an interest in […]
Not everyone filled them out completely. Some most likely did not return them. Not all the information is accurate. But that’s nothing new. Americans don’t like to complete surveys or to provide information to the government. Things were not that different at the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries. In 1898 and 1915, […]
We are excited to release the recorded copy of “Determining Your Ancestor’s Migration Chain” Your migrating ancestor probably did not travel alone—someone they knew likely went to the area before they did, when they did, or after they did. Perhaps all three events happened. Your ancestor may have travelled from point A to point B […]
The Civil War pension file for Charles Hartsell, contained at the National Archives, has arrived. We’ve already mentioned a few items from select documents from this set of papers. Hartsell was the son-in-law of Massachusetts native Andrew Trask–born in that state around 1814. Andrew is the actual person of interest. Unfortunately a relatively careful reading […]
Politics are keeping me from getting my pension increase. This letter in the Civil War pension file of Charles Hartsell originally caught my attention because it mentioned Hartsell’s Democratic leanings as the reason for his delay in receiving his pension increase. But as I read the letter, I realized there may be a clue […]
