“You don’t know what you don’t know until you know you don’t know it.” I’ve been […]
I’m scheduling lectures and all-day seminars from now through 2020. If you’d like to have me […]
This is an excellent example where understanding the records being accessed and crafting an accurate citation […]
From the former Ancestry Daily News by Michael John Neill — 8/31/2005 This week we look […]
It always goes without saying that the entire image should be referenced. As a reminder, the […]
I decided to add Pennsylvania Land Records: A History and Guide for Research by Donna Bingham Munger to […]
The “new” FindAGrave is still “new.” I took a second look to see if anything was […]
This is the first in a series of posts on the land of Thomas Chaney of […]
It is all about how things are ordered and how people are described. There are two […]
A recent private email mentioned the Palmer Method of writing and asked when it came into favor (the […]
Part of a 1796 deed in Harford County, Maryland, from James Rampley to Jesse Kent states: […]
People throw around the phrase “deductive reasoning,” but I’m not certain that everyone really knows the […]
I’ve decided to focus more on genealogy research, writing, and blogging. To that end, I’m closing […]
The newspaper reference to the 1892 court case in Adams County, Illinois, states that the case […]
You’ve found a recently published book that contains a lovely five page write up on your […]
I’ve decided to focus more on genealogy research, writing, and blogging. To that end, I’m closing […]
Regular readers know I have families with whom I have multiple relationships. Another one of my […]
I’ve written about Volke’s court case against her father before. I was hoping to find details […]
I’ve been thinking about what “reasonably close” means in terms of genealogical research. I have been […]
This image comes from the 1930 Western Illinois University Sequel, page 132. This is the volleyball […]
I noticed something in a 1907 partition suit petition for Hancock County, Illinois. Court was not […]
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