[note: An earlier version of this appeared in the former Ancestry.com Daily News, which unfortunately I cannot find archived anywhere easily] You Say: “I Found a New Document Today.” And I wonder: Have you entered the information into your genealogy database? Have you completely analyzed the document? Have you thought about what other records the document suggests you […]

Marriage of a Woman to a Woman The Brownville, Nebraska, Nebraska Advertiser of 20 June 1878 contains an item from the Tuscarora [Nevada] Times-Review that mentions the marriage of a Marancy Hughes and a Samuel M. Pollard that the newspaper suggests took place in Nevada in 1878. It turned out that Samuel M. Pollard was not a Samuel after all. Samuel A. […]

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The “Where Were They in 1880” blog post got me to thinking about how all the unmarried and unborn people eventually made their way down to me. It sounded like an excellent thing to write a blog post about. Like the best of blogging ideas, it made me realize exactly how much I did not […]