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Genealogy - Report the problem so that the index gets fixed. I am working on a tree for a lady in Texas and came across a 1880 census that didn't make sense (no pun intended). First of all the translation for the guys name was all wrongso I put in an update saying that the... Continue Reading →
City Directory can show you where your family lived and what their occupation was, so learn how to use the City Directories. Here is a short slide presentation looking for the McAleer family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during the 1890's, I am using the Ancestry dot com collection of City Directories. Here is what the YEAR... Continue Reading →
Here are the newspapers that were published in Maine - Sample: Alphabetical order State, Town name and Newspaper name Correction 16Mar2014 Maine -20 Maine – BangorMaine - BiddefordMaine – Biddeford - in FrenchMaine - BiddefordBangor Daily News8,359 issuesNov 28, 1908 - Dec 31, 2008 Nov 28,1980 not 1908Biddeford Weekly Journal1,117 issuesMar 24, 1893 - Nov... Continue Reading →
03 Feb 1921 - 07 Sep 2006 Father John Francis Kenny, born: 03 Feb., 1921in Wichita, Kansas died: 07 Sept. 2006in Lakewood, Washington Father Kenny was ordained to the Catholic Priesthood on Dec. 21, 1946and served in the Wichita Dioceseand the Army until his retirement from Madigan Hospital at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He... Continue Reading →
Below is a list of the newspapers from Saskatchewan, Canada that can be found in the Google News Archive Collection. The Leader-Post15,637 issuesMay 1, 1930 - Jan 31, 1987 The Morning Leader6,246 issuesOct 21, 1901 - Apr 30, 1930 The Qu'Appelle Progress767 issuesNov 27, 1885 - Dec 27, 1900 The Qu'Appelle Vidette499 issuesOct 23, 1884... Continue Reading →
Items in old newspapers may give excellent data such as names and dates that will help you enhance your family tree, to levels you would have taken many years to acquire. Here is an example where someone (Arthur Bostwick) gives an old deed to the state library and the deed has names and dates that... Continue Reading →
A small item in the old newspaper can give you insight into the life of your ancestor. Here is an item in a November 1918 school newspaper, that tells us that Claire Kilgore will not be coming back to school because her father has died. This small item gives information that might not be known... Continue Reading →
Some times I come across an item that is so well written and has a captivating story that I must presented as is; a re-post. This is such a story. It is about the December 9th 2019 volcano eruption that occurred in New Zealand. It reminded me of what happened in the 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake... Continue Reading →
Don't you just hate it when the newspaper item says Mrs. instead of the woman's first name? I know I've posted about this before but this post is different because it took me a long time to find Mrs Charles Beattie first name. Normally I can find the woman's name within the obituary or on... Continue Reading →
It was a foggy, cold, windy night and out of the inky blackness appeared this sultry mysterious woman, wearing a silk cyan face mask. She came right up to me and stopped a safe 6 feet from me and in a seductive voice whispered, “Are you a genealogist?” I looked right into those piercing jet... Continue Reading →
When you find your ancestor's name in a City Directory make sure you capture all the people with the last name and not just your relative. For instance the family name: "DeCloedt" on this 1938, City Directory, from Mishawaka, Indiana. As you can see above there are many people with the same last name "DeCloedt"... Continue Reading →
Don't you just hate it when the newspaper item has the woman’s name as Mrs., and not her given name? I ran into that problem while working on a Sep 1927 news story on the Ludingtion, Michigan newspaper. Here is the story I saw. The News Item: Notice that here we have the full item... Continue Reading →
On the last blog post Newspapers and Their Dates - Alabama, I talked about the dates on old newspaper and how on some scanned newspapers there are more than one issue under a single date. On one of the blog post screen prints I circles a name on the obit page, Mr Bynum: After I... Continue Reading →
While working with the Google News Archive collection you will have to be careful to pay attention to the date that appears on the scan title and the date that appears on actual newspaper. The following case will show you what to look for. I was doing some genealogy research and came across a Newspaper... Continue Reading →
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