Month: February 2019

Getting Through the ThruLines(tm) at AncestryDNA: Part I

Any information in the “ThruLines(tm)” at AncestryDNA that appears in gray is information that has been imported from someone else’s tree. The tree from which it has been imported to create the larger displayed tree is indicated in the displayed tree. Those tree names have been removed from the images included in this post for privacy […]

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The “Young Men’s” World War II Draft Cards at Fold3.com are Incomplete

Information in this post is current as of 26 February 2019. Fold3.com recently indicated that their image database (with index) of World War II draft registrants who were of “traditional age” (born after 16 February 1897) now includes draft registrants from Illinois. The database appears to be “in progress” even though I failed to see […]

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The Other Side of the Brick Wall

Your “brick wall” may be someone else’s as well, just from the opposite side. The compiler of this 1895 Sargent genealogy only knew the name of one of Clark Sargent’s children. Unfortunately, I (for a long time) only knew the name of my ancestor, Ira Sargent–no sibling information was known. Of course, Ira turned out […]

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A Grave Pension Matter

This Civil War veteran was survived by his wife, Sarah Ellen Graves, who died in Macon, Missouri, in 1931.  Thomas’s card is from the National Archives’ General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 (NARA microfilm publication T288). There is no notation for a widow’s pension on this card. The obvious reason for the omission is that Sarah […]

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Ancestry Separates an 1870 Household

According to Ancestry.com‘s 1870 census “index entry” for William L. Newman in Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois, there are only five individuals in his household–all of them named Newman. Yet when one looks at the actual enumeration for William, it’s clear there are two others in the household: Oscar Williamson and Sarah E. Williamson. The five […]

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