Month: October 2018

The West Point Lutheran Church Records in the ELCA Archives

A little review of the Ancestry.com’s “U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969” in light of their recent update cause me to discover a set of Lutheran Church records for West Point, Hancock County, Illinois. The provenance of just where Ancestry.com obtained the book is not really clear. The “source information” on the database makes […]

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School Districts in the ELCA Records?

Sometimes one wonders about Ancestry.com and the proofreaders they have in their database department. The “browse this collection” screen refers to the individuals congregations as “School Districts” in their “U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969” Oops. And these oopsies always make me wonder what other irregularities are sitting there that I simply don’t notice. […]

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Ancestry.com Updated ELCA Records Yet Again-And Yet Again: How?

Ancestry.com recently updated their “U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969” and have given it a slightly different title. Ancestry.com has indicated that they’ve updated their ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) database. As usual, there’s no indication as to “how” the database was updated. The years on the database as of the […]

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More on Statements and Looking at the Whole and the Parts

I realized I wrote about “statements” before (“Statements, Genealogical Statements, and Definitions“). The reason I feel that there needs to be some sort of definition for a “genealogical statement” comes down to the analysis. I understand that information is primary or secondary depending upon the person’s perceived knowledge of the event. It is the quantity of information […]

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