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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Good news for researchers with Missouri black sheep!

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Missouri now has arguably the best on-line information about prisoners , including PDFs of the log book including any identifying scars. Two...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont, on FamilySearch -- and other odd partial indexes

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In order to use the relevant part of the FamilySearch collection of Vermont town records -- specifically those from Underhill, Chittenden C...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Three ways to get your genealogy material out there without actually publishing

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A recent discussion on the Transitional Genealogists Forum got into the question of how we can get our research findings "out there...
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Friday, May 1, 2015

Learning from what went wrong

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We usually want to learn from the best -- the perfect novelist, the triumphant quarterback, the most cogent genealogist. But sometimes we ca...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Take your own mind-blowing tour at NGS in May: Cahokia Mounds

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A thousand years ago in downstate Illinois, across the Mississippi from where St. Louis is now, a world-class engineer designed a 100-foo...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Crossing the Continent with Common Names and Living to Tell the Story

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As we genealogists soon learn, an amazing number of people have common names. I ran into a few of them seven years ago while working on my f...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

136 years ago: the Upper Midwest from the back of a horse

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During the 1800s, even ancestors who would end up staying home often tried going West to see how it suited them. My great-grandfather spent ...