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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 →
Updated 28 Jun 2020 - added an extra example tree at bottom of post and made both trees open in a new page. My last blog post was: HOW TO DOCUMENT NEWS WORTHY INCIDENT THAT AFFECTS MANY FAMILIES - January 3, 2020 After I logged off for the night, I started thinking of other ways... Continue Reading →
I found an 1855 newspaper Sexton report that has the names and ages of people who died in 1854. I created a screen print of the newspaper item and posted it on the Ancestry dot com Message Board. Link to the newspaper item: Sexton Report I then transcribed the report: Soloman Mann 30 y 8... Continue Reading →
Wouldn't you like to keep friends' information in the same place as your family tree? I've been reading the "Helena Muffly Swartz Diary Blog" and I thought wouldn't it be nice to have all the friends names she talks about in her diary, listed on her family tree. Then it occurred to me that I... Continue Reading →
I ended my last blog with the following statements: Normally I don’t trust the information that is on a family tree, I just use it as reference to verify some other information but this time everything looked okay." "Normally putting in the full name instead of an initial is good practice and normally it does... Continue Reading →
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