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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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The records that I needed for Clinton County, Illinois, are not accessible online and making […]
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The obituary of my great-grandmother’s sister indicated that she died in a Keokuk, Iowa, hospital in […]
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