The things one finds on http://www.archive.org/ are absolutely amazing. I’m reading parts of the 1892 edition […]
This partial census entry comes from the 1870 census for Adams County, Illinois–Northeast Township. This family […]
Every so often it is good to review material that one located early in one’s research. […]
[note: this post originally ran in 2015–since I’ve made some DNA discoveries on my Neill line, […]
After some time, I completed my chart of the cluster of shared DNA matches I had […]
this article originally appeared on the Ancestry.com blog on 25 November 2007 Sometimes those disappearing ancestors did […]
Charts are helpful and I’ve made one in working through a cluster of my Neill DNA […]
I purchased Genealogical Standards of Evidence: A Guide for Family Historians after a friend mentioned it […]
I maintain the following genealogy blogs: Rootdig.com—Michael’s thoughts, research problems, suggestions, and whatever else crosses his […]
This map, purported to have been created by Pierre Raffex in 1688 appears in a 1932 […]
AncestryDNA has increased my “circles” to 19. The new one is for Clark Sargent. A few things […]
I’ve tried to be very careful in my writing about Benjamin Butler (born about 1820, probably […]
[originally posted to our old blog in 2015] George Trautvetter, his wife and children immigrated to […]
Does this qualify as evidence that Anna Goldenstein was living in Palmyra, Missouri, in 1914? After […]
John C. Rampley died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1907. He owed real estate, had a […]
Ancestry.com recently indicated that they had updated their database which used to be titled “U.S., Evangelical Lutheran […]
What is the difference between indirect evidence and direct evidence? One good example is a voter’s list. Since a […]
When Barbara Haase made out her last will and testament in 1902 in Warsaw, Hancock County, […]
Relationship projections in DNA test results are estimations based upon shared DNA. The relationship is an […]
[still applicable today] From the former Ancestry Daily News Michael John Neill — 3/22/2006 […]
Part of my problem in utilizing my AncestryDNA matches to find relatives of my Irish forebears […]
Words matter. The recent post on a DNA discovery used the phrase “Potential DNA Match on […]
I might not have been going about it the wrong way, but I needed to change […]
We are usually told to cite our sources because it allows us to go back and […]
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