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Monday, April 28, 2014

Methodology Monday with shared addresses in Philadelphia

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Do you check the whereabouts of friends, associates, and neighbors in the censuses and forget the cemeteries? "Cemeteries are neighbo...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Now up to eleven mostly Midwestern indexes and finding aids

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In addition to the nine links posted last year , two additional research aids are available on my web site : Wisconsin Small City Director...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Methodology Monday with William Gray and an earthquake (NGSQ)

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What's worse than a burned county? Would you believe an earthquake county? In the September 2013 National Genealogical Society Quarter...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Glimpse of the past: at work 181 years ago

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The seven commonest reported occupations in a New York City directory of July 1833: No Business Named . . . 3326 Widow . . . . . . . . . ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Methodology Monday and the man with two last names (NGSQ)

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People who change names without warning shake the ground that genealogists walk on. In US research, especially prior to 1850, it can take se...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Cleanup in Aisles 1-1,000

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Last month on Facebook Dave McDonald admonished fellow genealogists to start sorting and weeding their stuff now. Or, in other words, don...
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Monday, April 7, 2014

Methodology Monday with many Robert Walkers (NGSQ)

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So you have a flash-in-the-pan ancestor with first and last names common as dirt who left no clues whatsoever after 1830, let alone 1850? Ch...