I’m not really certain how odd it is, but it did strike me as unusual. Seven out of the twenty-seven names of heads of household on a page in the 1830 census for Fleming County, Kentucky, are female. I did not look to see who the oldest individual in each household was. My classification of […]

It’s always good to think of the likely scenario before spending too much time searching a record set for a person. I was looking for an individual in the 1840 US census. At the time of the enumeration the individual would have been over seventy-five years of age. Part of my research plan needs to […]

AncestryDNA is showing matches as “new” that have been on my list of matches since I first got my test results over a year ago. I’m positive they were there as two of the most closely related “new” matches are first cousins of my mother–people I communicated with the day I got my results because I […]

As the results from another DNA test comes in at AncestryDNA , I have four immediate wishes: the ability to download my matches as a spreadsheet–at least some of the data a chromosome browser more than one color to star the matches another “star” or something that I could use to indicate when I’ve “figured” the […]

Based on many requests, we’ve added this class to our schedule for July: AncestryDNA–5 weeks Activities/Content: Understanding what can and cannot be learned from the AncestryDNA test Strategies for “figuring out” people who do not return communication Probability of relationship based on shared DNA and relationship scenarios not presented Downloading AncestryDNA matches into an Excel […]

I’ve written about the American Revolutionary War pensions on Fold3.com before. I’ve made several finds in this series of records and not just for veterans. The pensions have a full name index on Fold3. For whom should you search: Anyone who was of an age to have served. Anyone who was of an age to have married […]