It can always be a challenge to transcribe a document when there are no others with […]
Back in the early days of my research, after attending a lecture or a seminar, I […]
It is easy to see how this was indexed as “Habbe Wen” on Ancestry.com. It’s also easy […]
Note: These records appear to have been updated and the issues discussed have been corrected. However […]
What’s on FamilySearch is free, but navigating and refining search results is not always easy. In this presentation […]
“Good enough” is a phrase that sometimes really isn’t actually good enough. The widow’s pension […]
Abbreviations and symbols are great, but can be confusing when users are unaware of what they […]
Occasionally I get called to task in private emails for pointing out difficulties with databases and […]
Some will bemoan the fact that people don’t cite their sources, research too quickly, and give […]
[This post about old farming practices somehow turned into one on copyright.] Some days I think […]
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The Montezuma arrived in New York City in 1841. The manifest entries for the passengers included what was […]
On 17 August 1850, Harrison Ramsey sold property to Joel Curtis in Clinton County, Illinois. The […]
For years I struggled to find information on a sister of an ancestor. She was reasonably […]
They were kidding, but it made a good topic for a blog post. My post […]
I’m trying to determine the connection I have with a DNA match at AncestryDNA that I’ll call […]
The National Archives has an excellent PDF document “Research in the Land Entry Files of the […]
Genealogists are human. We forget. No matter how much we know about record access, record interpretation, […]
Work on Lucinda (Sargent) Fairman, who lived in a Shaker community in Enfield, New Hampshire, in […]
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To make your Ancestry.com tree more interactive, consider adding a “question” as a custom event to relatives […]
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