Month: July 2019

These Ancestors Cannot Be Displayed

Please try the following: The ancestors you are looking for are currently unavailable. They may be hiding in offline resources which will require you to contact repositories via more archaic methods. If they are dead, rest assured they are not creating more descendants. Click the surname change button, or try again later. If you are […]

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AncestryDNA August 2019 Edition Webinar

AncestryDNA August 2019 Edition With Michael John Neill In this presentation, we will discuss new and not-so-new features of AncestryDNA matches, including: Groups Notes ThruLines Starred matches Filters Searches Our focus will be on practical, straight-forward applications of these features with particular attention paid to problem-solving and documentation of your analytical process.  Also discussed will […]

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Every Place it Could Appear

A brief biography of Pennsylvania resident Thomas Chaney appears in the 1884 history of Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton Counties. There are several things about the biography that serve as a reminder for conducting searches and using information contained in biographies of this type. Several individuals mentioned in the biography are deceased at the time of […]

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Wen the Adens are Found

It is easy to see how this was indexed as “Habbe Wen” on Ancestry.com.It’s also easy to see how it can be read as Habbe Aden as well–which is what it actually is. The Hermann arrived in New York City on 15 March 1869–apparently with several Ostfriesian individuals on board. Habbe wasn’t really the person of interest on […]

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The 1950 US Census

The 1950 United States federal census will be released to the public in April of 2022. As a little thought exercise, I made a list of my direct ancestors who were alive in 1950 and where they should probably be enumerated: My father–in Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois. My mother (Connie/Constance Ufkes)–in Rock Creek Township, […]

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Why Color Matters

Note: I’m beating the dead horse again on color images for those who are new readers to this blog. There are many documents where grayscale images made at a high resolution are more than adequate for research and analysis purposes. Frequently color isn’t really necessary in order to analyze a document completely. Then there are documents […]

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