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Your Blue or Gray Ancestors
Apr 1
As you go through gathering information for your family tree, somewhere along the way you may well come across ancestor or two who were either military soldiers or sailors during the American Civil War (1861-1865). If they supported the North - the Federal Union they were recognized by 'Blue' for their uniform. If they supported the Southern region...
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Genealogical Standard of Proof.
Mar 31
When doing your family history research you look for primary vital records. Those are the birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce papers and death certificates official filled out at the time of each event by a government agency. These are also known as primary sources, the best for getting accurate information of names, places and dates. K...
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Online Search Death Certificates / Records by States
Mar 29
Using the death index / records can be of great assistance in making sure your family history has as much of the details as possible. Death records are kept in with state that an individual died in. Even if they never lived in a certain state, if they died there, records are kept. However, such records started to be kept at different times in eac...
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Online Help with AncestorCloud
Mar 19
AncestorCloud is a new community and social marketplace for family discovery. This genealogy website not only connects you with professional genealogists to help with your research, but also a community of other family historians in over 52 countries who are available to lend a helping hand. Community researchers can pick up records, take local p...
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Create a Genealogical Will
Mar 11
If you have any type of collection of family photos, history, documents, journals, letters, vital records or written family history, you will want to see that your surviving family knows your wishes as to what happens to those items. If you have a family member who has already requested to take over those records and photos after your death...
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A Review of FindMyPast
Feb 13
The birth of this genealogical site is in the mid-1960s with a British company named 'Title Research'. All genealogical research was done by searching paper records and microfilm. Jump to 2001 and the use of computers and the Internet, this group created '1837 Online' a digital database of the General Register Office England & Wales birth, marr...
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Other 1890s Census Records
Feb 13
A major gap in the U.S. Federal Census exists with most of the 1890 Census destroyed in a 1921 fire. You can trace your ancestors from 1880 to 1900, but that leaves 20 years unaccounted for. Here are a few ideas to help bridge the gap in your research. First, if you have already researched and know some family branches did not arrive in Am...
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Maine’s Masonic Members – 1820-1995
Feb 11
A good source of information on a male ancestor can be found for those who belonged to Masonic Lodges. If you even remotely think an ancestor was a member, which most males were during some time in their lives in the late 1800s and into most of the 20th century, you need to find that lodge to see what records are available. The state of Maine's ...
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Those Maiden Names of Our Female Ancestors
Dec 15
If you can not locate the family birth name (maiden name) of some of your ancestors, there are some reasons why and some ideas to find it. With the US Federal census which started in 1790, it was only the head of household, a male, whose name was listed. No females or even other family members' names were used. That practice continued for the 18...
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Using Linkpendium for U. K. and Ireland
Dec 9
If you have ancestors from Ireland or anywhere in the United Kingdom, the Linkpendium has links of resources for those areas. There is the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. With Britain having so many colonies across the world, there are links to colonial British colonies al...