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The special report from the US House’s Committee on Invalid Pensions of 25 July 1854 mentions the case of Jacob Baker. The report was originally located because a copy of it was contained in Baker’s War of 1812 pension file. I was not searching for it specifically. GenealogyBank has the Congressional Record (in their “Historical […]
I was going to be focused and concentrate on Riley and Nancy Rampley, the Civil War veteran and his wife who lived in southern Hancock County, Illinois. I was searching the tract index for section 12 in Hancock County, Illinois’ Walker Township. That was part of where Riley and Nancy (Newman) Rampley farmed and lived […]
I’m still sifting through materials on Jacob Baker (father-in-law of my ancestor Benjamin Butler’s probable brother Arvin and mentioned in an earlier post “My Uncle’s Father-in-Law Got a War of 1812 Pension and Why It Matters“) in hopes of ferreting out some details that could help me in my search for more information on Benjamin. […]
Our series on Henry Goldenstein continues with the Quincy Whig-Journal providing additional background on Goldenstein. [continued from Quincy Whig-Journal, 10 July 1921]–previous post here. To the contrary he appeared anxious to get back to Kansas City, where he had gone last spring to enter an automobile school for the purpose of learning the trade of auto mechanic. […]
This has been published before, but I’m reposting as it is just as timely as ever. In places it’s slightly dated, but still good food for thought. —————————————————————— It’s 1968. Two genealogists are madly obtaining and compiling family history information. Ken is converting all his data to punch cards. “State-of-the-art” he says. Locals at the […]
The 1915 Iowa State Census is available on FamilySearch. Unfortunately the microfilmed images are cards–one card per person. It took a little bit to piece together the entry for the family of George A. and Catherine Freund in Davenport, Iowa. There is an index to these cards and they are searchable by name, but they […]
There is not really a fix, but rather a workaround on the search irregularity that was noted a few days ago on the “All Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919-1961” at Ancestry.com. Apparently having: Sounds like Similar Soundex checked simultaneously overwhelms the system. Checking only “Soundex” will provide Soundex results. I did get “Troutfetter” when […]
