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11/28/2022

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03/05/2022

Today's post is an example of when a property record gives you non-property information for your brick wall search! Likely Sophrona, 1880s I know my ancestor Sophrona Duram was married to a Horace Meeker, but given the earliness of the records (he died in 1859) and the fact that the couple was around the Duram family rather than the Meekers, I have not had any luck in tracking down Horace's family....

Today’s post is an example of when a property record gives you non-property information for your brick wall search! Likely Sophrona, 1880s I know my ancestor Sophrona Duram was married to a H…

03/03/2022

In today's example, I show what a record might look like for your ancestor, what's contained in it, and where to go from there. I have a newspaper article about my great great grandfather Watson Smith in which he described his life. In it, he said he moved to Wexford County in 1871 and helped raise the first log cabin in the county for Jess Clark with Charley Miller....

In today’s example, I show what a record might look like for your ancestor, what’s contained in it, and where to go from there. I have a newspaper article about my great great grandfath…

02/28/2022

This week we'll look at a one of my favorite sources - property records! If you're doing genealogy in the U.S., you likely know that a census record is one of the best ways to get ballpark dates for your ancestors birth, marriage, and death dates as well as locations where they were born and lives and family members. But what if you're looking before 1850?...

This week we’ll look at a one of my favorite sources – property records! If you’re doing genealogy in the U.S., you likely know that a census record is one of the best ways to get…

02/26/2022

Our final ancestor story this week comes from the Civil War pension application papers of my 2nd great granduncle (brother of my great great grandfather), John Bowman Smith. John B. Smith was born on 12 September 1836 and baptized on the 18th at Basford, Northamptonshire, England, the oldest of 7. He arrived in the U.S. at the port of Philadelphia with his mother and 2 younger siblings aboard the North Star on 15 December 1841 at age 5, joining their father who had likely come a year before....

Our final ancestor story this week comes from the Civil War pension application papers of my 2nd great granduncle (brother of my great great grandfather), John Bowman Smith. John B. Smith was born …

02/24/2022

When you're working on someone's ancestry, some people just stick out. Such is the case of James Sexton, born about 1833 in Kentucky and living in Lincoln, Nebraska later in life. A veteran of the Mexican-American war who later in life lost his legs to frost bite, Old Kaintucky Jim was as good a man as ever walked on soil or sod, was none too steady on his wooden legs when sober, and thought nothing of keeping the company of a black woman despite being white himself, or driving home drunk in his horse-drawn cart....

When you’re working on someone’s ancestry, some people just stick out. Such is the case of James Sexton, born about 1833 in Kentucky and living in Lincoln, Nebraska later in life. A vet…

02/21/2022

Happy President's Day! While technically we may celebrate all U.S. Presidents, in particular today we celebrate two of our nation's greatest leaders whose birthdays were near this date: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. George Washington's family story in the U.S. began in 1656, when his great grandfather John Washington emigrated from Sulgrave in Northamptonshire, England to the colony of Virginia. Most of us know well the story of Washington, so rather than going into this I thought it'd be more fun to look at some records!...

Happy President’s Day! While technically we may celebrate all U.S. Presidents, in particular today we celebrate two of our nation’s greatest leaders whose birthdays were near this date:…

02/19/2022

While something like a birth announcement or an obituary helps us fill in our family trees, the newspaper is also a great way to get to know your ancestors' daily lives. My 4th great grandfather, Joseph Duram, is an amazing example of this. From newspaper records, I have pieced together quite the narrative about his life. According to his headstone and census records, Joseph W....

While something like a birth announcement or an obituary helps us fill in our family trees, the newspaper is also a great way to get to know your ancestors’ daily lives. My 4th great grandfat…

02/17/2022

We just posted about finding additional information, like date and place of death, in the newspaper when traditional records like death certificates cannot be found. But the best thing about a full obituary is that often we can find so much more than just this data! Remember Martha Crakes from our last post? This is her obituary in full. What additional information can you find?...

We just posted about finding additional information, like date and place of death, in the newspaper when traditional records like death certificates cannot be found. But the best thing about a full…

02/14/2022

Happy Valentine's Day! What's your favorite ancestral love story? Mine is from my husband's side, where his Protestant 3rd great grandfather left Northern Ireland with his Catholic 3rd great grandmother to Glasgow where they could start a family together.

Happy Valentine's Day! What's the greatest love story in your family?

02/14/2022

Unfortunately, sometimes we just can't find that one birth record or census entry that we need. An excellent alternative to traditional sources of genealogy information is the local newspaper! While not always available, a newspaper article can be an excellent way to fill in missing pieces in an ancestor's story. Newspaper repositories are scattered far and wide. There are some large databases, like Newspapers.com or the British Newspaper Archive....

http://weavingthetapestrygenealogy.com/2022/02/14/a-little-help-from-the-newspaper/

Unfortunately, sometimes we just can’t find that one birth record or census entry that we need. An excellent alternative to traditional sources of genealogy information is the local newspaper…

02/12/2022

It's the final entry in our BMD series this week! Searching birth records.

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We’ve worked back through John’s life to the very first moment: his birth. I already know from his death certificate his birth date, and from his marriage record his birthplace. But for…

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