Month: November 2019

How Much Time?

We all get assumptions in our heads based upon our own experience. No matter how good we are at stripping preconceived notions away, there’s that occasional time when the hope and desire to make a discovery causes us to let our assumption filter down. And there’s always the time when we forget that our personal […]

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Comparing Population and Agricultural Schedules in 1885–Different Names for the Same People

Agricultural census schedules are not always just about farming. They can also provide clues to what is in the population schedules as well. Finding Tamme Tammen in the 1885 population schedules for the Nebraska State Census proved to be somewhat difficult. Finding him in the agricultural census schedules (shown on the left hand side in […]

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Same Age One Day a Year

November 10th was always the day. The one day a year my great-grandparents, Mimka and Tjode (Goldenstein) Habben were the same age. Otherwise Mimka was one year older than Tjode. Mimka was born 11 November 1881 in Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois. Tjode was born on 10 November 1882 in Dawson County, Nebraska. The couple […]

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Here a John, Thru a John, Messed up the John-John

Apparently the “Big Tree” at AncestryDNA has pulled information from some interesting submissions for my Neill family. There are basically two problems with what’s in the “Big Tree:” John Neill (1774-1849) has left no documentary evidence to suggest he is the father of John Neill (my 3rd great-grandfather as shown in the illustration). The John […]

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