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 […]
The researcher has gotten back to me with her results of my search requests in the […]
If you think your ancestor homesteaded in the United States and completed their application process, an […]
We are offering the following webinars in October of 2018: Getting More from FamilySearch Organizing Online […]
I installed the “We’re Related” app from Ancestry.com on my new phone just to see how it had […]
One of the nice things about the land patent search at the Bureau of Land Management […]
When Eliza Ramsey could not be located in the database of homestead files for Nebraska at Ancestry.com, […]
My correspondent told me that Eliza Ramsey obtained a homestead in Saunders County, Nebraska, in 1875. […]
It’s still about the apples for Mary Rice in late 18th century Massachusetts. That’s fortunate because […]
We’ve set the dates for my annual research trip to Salt Lake City, Utah’s Family History […]
  The records that I needed for Clinton County, Illinois, are not accessible online and making […]
We’ve released our 2018 version of “Tightwad Genealogy.”  If you ordered and did not receive download […]
It could be said that it feels sometimes like AncestryDNA keeps quite a bit of our […]
If your relative applies for something based upon a certain act of Congress, do you look […]
I was reminded of the importance of searching the Bureau of Land Management website for 19th […]
The obituary of my great-grandmother’s sister indicated that she died in a Keokuk, Iowa, hospital in […]
In “Picking Low Hanging Fruit on GedMatch Part I” a potential discovery was made on the […]
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