Month: February 2017

What is the “Northern District, Illinois, Naturalization Index, 1926-1979?”

I think I know what Ancestry.com’s “Northern District, Illinois, Naturalization Index, 1926-1979” is, but I’m not certain. The title of the database (“Northern District, Illinois, Naturalization Index, 1926-1979“) seems slightly inconsistent with the “Original Data” as Ancestry.com refers to the source of their data. There are two items under the “Source Information” for this database–and for […]

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Obituary Dreamin’

Sometimes obituaries look like the end result of the “telephone game,” either bearing little resemblance to reality or appearing to be a jumbled mess of names. When information passes through several individuals, details can become confused. Facts can be turn into untruths. Something of that type is probably what happened with the obituary of Mary […]

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Gaps in Your Experience?

We all have gaps in our experience and education. The gaps are not the real problem. The problem is when we don’t admit that we have them. The estate settlement’s inventory Quincy, Illinois, resident Trientje Sartorius indicated approximately $1000 in a bank account and $10,000 in real estate mortgages executed by two separate individuals. The executor’s […]

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Indexer Confuses Mother and Mother-in-law

If FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, or any other site has the actual image of a record on their site, that’s what I use to create my citation and to extract to put information into my own database. My grandmother (under her maiden name) appears in FamilySearch‘s “Illinois, Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection ca. 1959-1981.” The database entry for Ida […]

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Southern California Genealogy Jamboree

I’m excited to be heading back to Burbank, California, this June to present at the annual “Genealogy Jamboree” hosted by the Southern California Genealogical Society on Friday – Sunday, June 9-11, 2017. I’ll be giving the following lectures: Generating Genealogy Blog Content–on Friday Image Creation and Citation–on Saturday Using the Bureau of Land Management Tract […]

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