This is one of those stories that’s been passed down for several generations and which I […]
Ancestry.com recently announced the release of “Alberta, Canada, Homestead Records, 1870-1930.” The images are decidedly better than the […]
The devil is, as they say, in the details. There’s an apparent bit of coding detail that’s […]
I’ve requested three Civil War pensions from my researcher contact at the National Archives and he […]
[This was posted to my blogs several years ago, but thought it appropriate to post it […]
One of the challenges of using microfilmed images is that a sense of perspective has been […]
These are a little tongue-in-cheek. Well, at least some of them. It’s also not meant to […]
It was fortunate that Reka Behrens (born around 1870 in Adams County, Illinois) the daughter of […]
Based upon the suggestions of a reader, I purchased Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West, by Marcia Meredith […]
We are offering sessions of our popular US land and probate classes this February. Additional details […]
For a change of pace, I decided to revisit Alfred Butler, the Mendon, St. Joseph County, […]
We’ve mentioned the incomplete land homestead claim in Dawson County, Nebraska, for Cornelia Albers before. Cornelia’s […]
Searching the Cook County, Illinois, death index on FamilySearch reminded me that when searching with the “exact […]
FamilySearch includes a database of Cook County, Illinois deaths between 1878 and 1994. This database appears […]
On 12 October 1920, there was an auction of the chattel property of Sarah Newman as […]
There may just be the addition of missing images here, but Ancestry.com has updated the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church […]
A little preliminary work on Reka Behrens (daughter of Volke (Behrens) Sartorius), indicated that Reka’s second […]
My maternal grandfather would have been 99 years old today. Granddad was born 27 January 1917 […]
The stories of our ancestors don’t appear in nice little books labeled “The Story Of —.” […]
Generally speaking, genealogical research in the United States becomes more difficult as one’s work moves to […]
We have mentioned Volke Behrens before on this blog. Volke Behrens was born in 1850 in […]
Genealogists have a love-hate relationship with clerks. Sometimes they cannot write, use the word “unknown” as […]
There is a link to managing your email subscription on the top of every blog page. […]
[Note: All images were current as of 23 January 2016 at 11: 30 pm central time.] I’ve had […]
After something of a hiatus, my how-to newsletter, Casefile Clues, is back. I’ve moved the blog […]
There it is in his estate settlement: proof that Ulfert Behrens drank beer. On 11 November […]
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