There’s a military service stone in the Elliott Grove Cemetery in Chariton County, Missouri, for an […]
I’m pretty certain it indicates that Elzy Lake served in the “Forty-ninth Infantry, I-Mi.” And I’m […]
Sometimes one record simply begs more questions. That’s the case with the application for a military […]
We’re reprinting this article I wrote for the former Ancestry Daily News in 2002. It’s still relevant […]
I still have room on my research trips coming up later this year. If you’ve been […]
There is a reason why some affidavits in Civil War pension files sound so similar. It’s […]
Civil War pension files can contain a variety of information. The one for William Lake (Co.I, […]
Genealogy is about analysis and interpretation. One cannot analyze or interpret if one cannot determine exactly […]
Our earlier post on the United States marriage records at FindMyPast touched on the issue of citing […]
For those of you who prefer serious posts, this is the time to move on. In […]
The homestead application file for William Sartorius in Alberta, Canada contained an additional interesting letter from […]
The Bushwhacker post reminded me that had not taken a good look at the sons of […]
[note: all search results displayed in this blog post were obtained on 5 February 2016] FindMyPast […]
This is one of those stories that’s been passed down for several generations and which I […]
Ancestry.com recently announced the release of “Alberta, Canada, Homestead Records, 1870-1930.” The images are decidedly better than the […]
The devil is, as they say, in the details. There’s an apparent bit of coding detail that’s […]
I’ve requested three Civil War pensions from my researcher contact at the National Archives and he […]
[This was posted to my blogs several years ago, but thought it appropriate to post it […]
One of the challenges of using microfilmed images is that a sense of perspective has been […]
These are a little tongue-in-cheek. Well, at least some of them. It’s also not meant to […]
It was fortunate that Reka Behrens (born around 1870 in Adams County, Illinois) the daughter of […]
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