Month: May 2019

Webinar Closeout Followup

I’m wrapping up some issues we had with our coupon on our webinar closeout offer. Coupon code SAVE50PERCENT at checkout will reduce your order price by half. We’ve extended it for some regular readers who missed our offer over the weekend. Downloads are immediate. Viewing can be done whenever. The final shutdown of will take […]

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A Little Fiction…

note: This was written some time ago and was intended as fiction, food for thought, or a warning. Take your pick. Jefferson County—A Digitized County (c) 2010 Michael John Neill(do NOT copy/paste without permission) Jefferson County Historical Society Meeting, 1 April 2010, secretary’s minutes“The monthly meeting was brought to order….. “Michael Neill mentioned that his […]

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Tips and Tricks of Deciphering German Handwriting: A Translator’s Tricks of the Trade for Transcribing German Genealogy Documents

Tips and Tricks of Deciphering German Handwriting: A Translator’s Tricks of the Trade for Transcribing German Genealogy Documents by Katherine Schober is not going to make you an immediate expert. Only practice can do that and no book, no matter how detailed and exhaustive, can include every little nuance. Humans create handwriting and individuals variants […]

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When Is A Tax List a “Census?”

Genealogists who have some length in their genealogical teeth talk about the importance of knowing the purpose of a record. It’s true–any researcher who wants to use and interpret something as correctly as possible needs to know (among other things) the purpose for which the record was originally created. This may not be the same […]

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Just Letting the Government Know about that “Pension:” Part VI

On 7 September 1897, Thomas M. Graves filled out his first circular requesting family information from the Bureau of the Pensions. What follows is an extracted and summarized list of the details her provided: He was married to Sarah Graves whose maiden name was Sarah Newman. Thomas was married to Sarah on 23 October 1885 […]

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