[This has been fixed as of 4:21 pm central time on 21 November 2016.] It’s been […]
I’ve not done any studies, so what follows are just some random thoughts. Many of my […]
It is difficult when one knows little about a couple other than their names. Sometimes it […]
My initial post about this 1860 census entry went out before the final edit on the […]
Sometimes whether or not I obtain everything I can on an ancestor depends upon the situation. […]
The German researcher was able to locate six children of Johann Georg and Sophia Elisabetha (Derle) […]
Yesterday’s Genealogy Tip of the Day, “Take the 1890 Census You May Learn Something,” got me to […]
My knowledge of early twentieth century “movements” and causes is not what it should be. Consequently […]
There are quite a few lessons (or reminders) one can get from the 1905 passport application of […]
I recently posted “Complete 1890 Census Released!” as a page on this blog. While I am […]
John Goldenstein applied for a passport in Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, in 1905. The native of […]
My grandmother Ufkes (Dorothy Alice [Habben] Ufkes [1924-2008]), always told me that her grandfather Goldenstein made […]
3 November 1873 the steamship Weser arrived in New York City. Focke Goldenstein was on board. […]
One always has to be thinking and paying attention when searching. It also helps to never […]
It’s difficult to imagine sending your sixteen year old child to a foreign land knowing that […]
I will be giving three presentations on Veterans’ Day: Military Benefit Records Using Fold3.com BLM Tract […]
Just like there’s rarely actually three brothers who came as stowaways to the Americas, there’s no […]
There’s lies, damned lies, and then there are census records. Census information is only as reliable […]
My great-great-grandfather Ira Sargent’s second wife seems to have been dropped from a UFO into Adams […]
This can be a really gray area. My Grandma Neill indicated that she didn’t know much about […]
Theodore Trautvetter went missing from Warsaw, Illinois in January of 1890. He was eventually found in […]
There’s no bigger genealogy library than the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Every […]
The results were published in the Louisville Daily Courier of 6 August 1859. There had been an […]
The last in the series about Cornelia Albers’ invalid homestead claim in Dawson County, Nebraska, in the […]
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