Michael John Neill's Genealogy Website
Some individuals and even some genealogical groups “insist” on having a date for every person: a date of birth a date of marriage a date of death Doesn’t work that way. The reality is that in some locations and time periods, given the available records, these dates are simply not going to be known precisely. […]
Periodic searches of GoogleBooks are necessary for just about every ancestor, no matter how unlikely it may seem that their name will appear in print. James Rampley was a resident of County Suffolk England who was transported in 1764 to the Americas. He appears in Peter Wilson Coldham’s The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (Baltimore, MD, […]
Ancestry.com recently announced an update of their “U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.” This draft registration is commonly referred to as the “Old Men’s Registration,” registered men who born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 and was conducted on 27 April 1942. The following states are currently in the database […]
The “Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1963” on Ancestry.com is an excellent source for those with Kentucky connections. The ability to search based upon parents’ names is a wonderful way to query the database. That’s exactly what I did to locate seven children of Nelson Sledd of Nicholas County, Kentucky. I wanted to see what information they provided on Nelson, […]
Ancestry.com announced that “Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1963” was recently updated so I decided to search for a few members of the Sledd family that I’ve put off looking for. The death certificates do not completely cover the entire 1852-1963 time frame. Registration of deaths was done in the 1850s and statewide registration started up again […]
