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Can a City Directory entry confirm a death date? Let’s take a look at one case where the death date was attributed to the father instead of the son and there was no way of confirming the information. Paul J. and Catherine Hungerford had a son in 1846 who they named Paul J. Hungerford. Now... Continue Reading →
The work that I do, sometimes leads me find unexpected connections. One of the trees that I created from a random newspaper obituary, gave me many other obituaries and a connection to my own family. I found the Prendergast item by chance and then created a tree in hopes of finding his own Family Tree.... Continue Reading →
When you are building your family tree, look at people’s middle names for clues. I am working on a tree that has a son by the name Arthur Rial Childs 1852-1935. I started the tree with one small 1875 obituary which had the woman’s name Mrs. Elathere Niles age 96. I found that name... Continue Reading →
I can now report another successful pilgrim connection. I've connected Ames Elijah Alden to John and Priscilla Alden; 1997 to 1599. The Back Story: While working on the David Alden Family tree I looked for other Alden's in the Google News Archives and found in The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 31, 1936 the Obit for... Continue Reading →
The genealogy Gods struck again thanks to the 1893 Boston Evening Transcript newspaper and Sherry. In a previous blog posting “Break the Pope’s Neck” I wrote about the interesting information one could find in the old newspaper “Boston Evening Transcript” and gave you a link to a history of it [Access The Boston Transcript] In... Continue Reading →
Sometimes when I am looking for the dead I find spirits. I will let you decide which item to read. Thank You. Jose from Clarkston, Michigan Link to newspaper: See to the right of this link: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GhFXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bkMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5601%2C607928
Family trees show “the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” of a family’s history. Some families have more than their share of the “Bad and Ugly” and can seem to be reliving the life of the bible story “Job”. The Mitchell and Patzke families of Oregon and Washington are connected not only by marriage but... Continue Reading →
“…having found two trees I was satisfied with my work and I thought I was done with this particular newspaper item, but I was wrong.” In March of 2013 I was reading an old 1913 newspaper "The Cayuga Chief" published in Weedsport, New York and saw the following item: ”William R. Mack Killed, Struck by... Continue Reading →
Back in 2012 I found an obituary in an Arkansas newspaper which contained a lithograph portrait of William L Walker. I did not know how to capture a screen print back then so I did not include that lithograph portrait on the tree that I created for him. Using the little information I had, I... Continue Reading →
While helping Luanne; writer of The Family Kalamazoo (A genealogical site devoted to the history of the DeKorn and Zuidweg families of Kalamazoo); to find newspaper items about the Spanish American War; I came across an interesting item in the 1898 "Wolverine Citizen" a Flint newspaper. The item titled "NUMBERED AMONG THE DEAD", Lieut. Ablino... Continue Reading →
Where is Percy Green in 1940? Don't you just hate it when you can't find a family member on some census record when you "KNOW" the person has to be there? I found an obituary for Irene Greene and created a tree to find her real Family Tree. I was able to create a large... Continue Reading →
In my last blog I wrote about Sheriff Pat Baker’s tree and how I came to find other trees for him but what I did not share, which I will do now is the way I found the links, the connection I’ve made and the letter I received from 1_mjbowens a tree owner. Letter Here... Continue Reading →
In August of 2012 I found a political ad in a 1988 Georgia newspaper and from that simple ad I was able to find more items for the person. The person was a sheriff of the county and had been in office for many years so there were lots of stories about him. He had... Continue Reading →
As I've mentioned before in my blogs, I have a "NO LUCK" folder and from time to time I go into it and pick a file to work on. This time I got lucky and picked one which now has a home. I don't know how long it was sitting in the folder and I... Continue Reading →
I came across a blog from a family who will be stationed in Bolivia, South America for the next two years and it reminded me of the obituary I have in my “NO LUCK” folder. What I was thinking was how different it must be in the year 2013 compared to the year 1854 for... Continue Reading →
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