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They were kidding, but it made a good topic for a blog post. My post about Ancestry‘s “We’re Related” app indicating I had a “different grandmother” was shared with my Facebook friends. One response teased me with “are you really sure who your grandmother was?” I knew my Facebook friend was kidding me–let me be […]
I’m trying to determine the connection I have with a DNA match at AncestryDNA that I’ll call “M.” M and I only have seven shared matches as 3 October 2018. M and I share 31 cM of DNA and Ancestry.com has predicted our relationship in the 4th to 6th cousin range. That’s reasonable. Given what I know […]
The National Archives has an excellent PDF document “Research in the Land Entry Files of the General Land Office” that explains in detail the Federal land acquisition process in the United States. Land warrants for military service were issued between 1788 and 1855. The essence of the process is that a soldier (or widow) who […]
Genealogists are human. We forget. No matter how much we know about record access, record interpretation, record creation, the law, human behavior, culture, customs, etc. there’s always something the researcher can forget. I suppose admitting to that isn’t good for my overall reputation, but here goes. What I forget more than anything is “the frequency […]
Work on Lucinda (Sargent) Fairman, who lived in a Shaker community in Enfield, New Hampshire, in the 19th century has taken a back seat to other things. However, a contributor to FindAGrave photographed her tombstone in the Shaker Cemetery in Enfield, New Hampshire. According to the information on the cemetery on FindAgrave, Lucinda’s stone is […]
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To make your Ancestry.com tree more interactive, consider adding a “question” as a custom event to relatives in your online tree there. Adding a custom event gives you the ability to name the event how you want. In the illustration “Question” was chosen as the name for the custom event. Using no date for the event […]
