Ancestry.com has updated their “U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.” This draft registration is often […]
I will be presenting an evening presentation on “Beginning German Research” for the McDonough County (Illinois) […]
Anna Dirks (Goldenstein) was born in 1861 near Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois, and died in 1932 […]
Sometimes ministers have a way of laying things on the line and sometimes they are just […]
I’ve been in the Hancock County Courthouse in Carthage, Illinois numerous times over the past thirty-five […]
Focke Janssen Goldenstein was born in 1857 in Wrisse, Ostfriesland, Germany and died in Golden, Adams […]
Anke Hinrichs Fecht was born in 1860 in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany and died in Elvaston, Hancock […]
The Pension Department contacted Eli Short in 1889 as a part of their investigation into the […]
[this joke was published on our old site in 2015, but was so popular that I’m […]
Jan Mimken Habben was born in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany in 1859 and died in Elvaston, Hancock […]
It an be a challenge sometimes to decide the name which one should use to refer […]
Always double and triple check. The link in yesterday’s post about Tips & Quips for the Family […]
Fredericka Marie (Sartorius) Janssen was born in Adams County, Illinois, in 1865 and died in Hancock […]
I’ve ordered Tips & Quips for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills from Genealogical Publishing […]
There are many lessons in this 1918 letter from the Ashland, Nebraska, postmaster to the Pension […]
There is still time to join me on my annual research trip to the Allen County […]
Jans Jurgens Janssen was born in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany in 1856 and died near Basco, Hancock […]
Noentje Lena (Grass) Ufkes was born in 1848 in Backemoor, Ostfriesland, Germany, and died in Hancock […]
I’ve included the back of the page that had the difficult to read middle name for […]
The Civil War pension file for Riley Rampley (private Company D, 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry) and […]
Johann Hinrichs Frederichs Ufkes was born in 1838 in Holtrop/Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany, and died in Hancock […]
In the fall of 1916, seventy year old Nancy (Newman) Rampley was “visiting in Truman, Minnesota” […]
Ellen Butler was born probably in the late 1840s to early 1850s in either Missouri or Iowa. […]
William Ira Sargent was born about 1843 probably near Darlington, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1916 […]
Franciska (Bieger) Trautvetter was born in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, in 1851 and died in Walker […]
I’m updating my genealogy speaking schedule for late 2017 and beyond. If your group sponsors a […]
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