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Genealogy and family history in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and neighbor and feeder states

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Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Death Will Bring Us Together; or, Look to the Future to Learn the Past

A classic problem: a woman born in the early 1880s appears in her parents' household in 1900 with a stupendously common name for the tim...

Friday, December 5, 2014

Let's not have any g-d- swearing here

Guerrilla war was the norm in Kentucky as white settlers tried to move in on the Shawnee and Cherokee in the 1770s. I've been reading Jo...

Monday, December 9, 2013

Know when you're shelving that project

Ideally of course we would all have each of our many projects and potential projects fully annotated and up to date before we turned to anot...

Friday, November 22, 2013

How to research

Yesterday at Allen County , I found a published cemetery reading. In order to take it home, I photocopied the page it was on, the earlier pa...

Friday, April 26, 2013

Self-referential Friday with new web site intro

The old web site introduction seemed a little long-winded, so I'm trying the following on for size: Welcome to Midwest Roots! I have ...

Monday, March 4, 2013

Making the Best of a Bad Day in the Courthouse

Six thoughts. Others will have other approaches or additional suggestions. 1. Not everyone will be happy to see you, regardless of your de...

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