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Father Comes to Visit in the 1880’s and Sponsors Two Grandchildren

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Names of godparents can be clues on a variety of levels. Whether something is a clue depends upon what clues you need. An 1883 letter from Noentje Lena (Grass) Ufkes mentions that her father had been visiting her family near Basco, Hancock County, Illinois. Johannes Grass is known to have died in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany, […]

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Saving and Citing 1876 Citizenship Renunciation Paperwork

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I’m working on translating and citing this document that I obtained when I was in Salt Lake at the Family History Library. Fortunately when I saved the file, I included part of the microfilm roll number as the file name. The immigration records were the only item on the film, so a specific item number […]

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