According to newspaper accounts, Rufus D. Stephens was a murdering bigamist in Herkimer County, New York. […]
It’s easy to make digital images or paper copies and not keep track of important details. […]
28 June–speaking at the monthly meeting of the Bureau County, Illinois, Genealogical Society in Princeton, Illinois. […]
The 1836 property tax list for Jackson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio, contains an entry for […]
In “Can You Read that Last Name?” we asked what the last name was in this […]
Genealogy “how-to” books discuss citation of sources and how to analyze information that has been located […]
When determining a way to solve your genealogical problem, ask yourself when that problem-solving process might […]
Conrad Haase stated in October of 1884 in open court that he had lived in Hancock […]
A few quick thoughts on searching for names in online databases. Last names Keep a list […]
The things one finds on http://www.archive.org/ are absolutely amazing. I’m reading parts of the 1892 edition […]
This partial census entry comes from the 1870 census for Adams County, Illinois–Northeast Township. This family […]
Every so often it is good to review material that one located early in one’s research. […]
[note: this post originally ran in 2015–since I’ve made some DNA discoveries on my Neill line, […]
After some time, I completed my chart of the cluster of shared DNA matches I had […]
this article originally appeared on the Ancestry.com blog on 25 November 2007 Sometimes those disappearing ancestors did […]
Charts are helpful and I’ve made one in working through a cluster of my Neill DNA […]
I purchased Genealogical Standards of Evidence: A Guide for Family Historians after a friend mentioned it […]
I maintain the following genealogy blogs: Rootdig.com—Michael’s thoughts, research problems, suggestions, and whatever else crosses his […]
This map, purported to have been created by Pierre Raffex in 1688 appears in a 1932 […]
AncestryDNA has increased my “circles” to 19. The new one is for Clark Sargent. A few things […]
I’ve tried to be very careful in my writing about Benjamin Butler (born about 1820, probably […]
[originally posted to our old blog in 2015] George Trautvetter, his wife and children immigrated to […]
Does this qualify as evidence that Anna Goldenstein was living in Palmyra, Missouri, in 1914? After […]
John C. Rampley died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1907. He owed real estate, had a […]
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