Sometimes looking for one thing leads to realizations that have never been made. Some background: Tonjes […]
Variant spellings are the bane of the genealogist’s existence. Often common sense and a little thought […]
It cost a dollar to get a United States passport in 1889. At least that is […]
Sometimes the best discoveries are made by accident. A search of the “New York, Passenger Lists, […]
The beauty of full-text searches is that it facilitates the finding of references that otherwise would […]
[from 20 May 2015] I use the online trees for the occasional clue. However in reviewing […]
My original genealogy database started in the mid-1980s when I began using Personal Ancestral File. I […]
When Tonjes Jurgens Ehmen wrote his will in 1864, it appeared as if his wife, Schwantje, […]
The will of Tonjes Jurgens Ehmen, of Adams County, Illinois, is dated 21 April 1864. It […]
Published in 1992, Ann Lainhart’s 1992, State Census Records, is an overview of what state censuses […]
The “name’s the same” can be a big problem–even when that name is not too common. […]
There are times when I really wonder just how many genealogists are really involved in the […]
Genealogists who have used Family History Library microfilm known that it is not unusual for items […]
My trip to Salt Lake in May/June 2017 is half full. We spend an entire week […]
What’s on your genealogical Christmas wish list? My membership to American Ancestors is one of my annual […]
Pension updates for Civil War veterans were regularly published in certain newspapers throughout the United States. […]
It was probably one of the first guidebooks I ever read and it’s one of the […]
It’s not often that I encounter a marriage record for someone’s fifth marriage. This 1883 marriage […]
“Next time, the people will let Mr. Sledd slide.” February of 1861 saw the United States […]
The “record” for Johann Friederich Janssen in Ancestry.com‘s “Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1519-1969” makes him the […]
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