Month: November 2018

Where Was Valentine’s Marriage Record From: Part II

Ancestry.com’s record entry for the 1852 Hamilton County, Ohio, marriage record of Valentine Hess and Fanny Fehleisen indicated that it was located on Family History Library microfilm roll number 000344466. It didn’t tell me much else. A search of the Family History Library card catalog at https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search indicated that this roll was one of 186 rolls of microfilm […]

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Where Was Valentine’s Marriage Record From: Part I

It is possible to “view image from FamilySearch,” (quoting from the Ancestry.com “record” for this individual entry). The viewing interface is created by Ancestry.com. The “record” on Ancestry.com for this marriage only indicates that it took place in Hamilton County, Ohio, on 13 December 1852. W hen viewing the source information and citation for this item, there’s not […]

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The Judge Would Have Shot the Right One and Made a Better Job of It

He was fined $500 in 1906, but the St. Louis judge said he should have been shot. There were shots fired, but not by any of individuals involved in the incident. The 18 August 1906 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch provides little detail on the actual incident, only stating that Harry Rothweiler, James Davison, Anthony Carlin, […]

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5-Part AncestryDNA Class–50% off for Cyber Monday

AncestryDNA Class Lecture Downloads We’ve converted my online AncestryDNA class into a self-contained series of lectures and handouts that you can view at your leisure. There is no “attendance.” Download and view at your convenience. Presentations can be viewed as many times as you want. View complete details on our announcement page–50% off.

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When Your Located Federal Property Obtained with a Surrendered Warrant Is Worth More than $1.25 an Acre

The 1852 Congressional act, “An Act to make Land Warrants assignable, and for other Purposes,” (Thirty-Second Congress, Session 1, Chapter 19, 1852) stipulated that if military land warrants were used to locate (ie. purchase) federal land whose value was more than $1.25 per acre, the individual using the warrant to locate the land had to pay […]

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The Mixer, Cream, and Grandma

  At some point, my Mother would let my daughters “help” her with the mashed potatoes every Thanksgiving and Christmas. As with most small children, the word “help” was used in a very loose sense of the word. I’m not certain at what age the tradition started, but they were fairly small and over time […]

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 U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major Activities and Developments, 1950-95

There is more information in here about vital records in the United States than most genealogists will need, but the  U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major Activities and Developments, 1950-95,  by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics provides significant background on the development of vital statistics (birth, marriage, and death) registration in […]

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