Month: September 2018

Did Your US Relative Homestead?

If you think your ancestor homesteaded in the United States and completed their application process, an image of their original patent should be on the Bureau of Land Management website.  As we saw in an earlier post (“Forty Acres in Section 28-Once, Maybe Twice“), there are completed homesteads whose patents are not in this index. Completed […]

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We’re Related App–Where Do You Get These Things?

I installed the “We’re Related” app from Ancestry.com on my new phone just to see how it had changed from when I originally installed and experimented with it some time ago. It’s not really changed. In fact, it indicated that my maternal grandmother was a woman named Harriet I. Pulver (1926-1952). Pulver apparently spent her entire life […]

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Reserving the Apples: Part III

It’s still about the apples for Mary Rice in late 18th century Massachusetts. That’s fortunate because her insistence on keeping the fruit of her apples for the duration of her natural life left me with with a genealogical clue that did not require too much peeling. The apples are mentioned in two deeds recorded consecutively […]

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Hiring a Little Clinton County Research

  The records that I needed for Clinton County, Illinois, are not accessible online and making a personal trip is not practical at this point due to other time commitments. It’s important to remember the research goals when hiring or contracting any research. My goal is to try and document children of Harrison Ramsey who […]

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