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December 20, 2020

Finding Your Ancestors in Poor House or Poor Farm Records

Note: This article was published by James Tanner on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Frederick County Poor Farm in Virginia, United States, By AgnosticPreachersKid – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48996373Poor houses and poor farms, which go by many different names, have a long history in English speaking countries. Quoting from the History.com article,...

December 14, 2020

Introducing Quick Research Basics (QRB) Videos

We’re excited to announce a new series of videos on our YouTube Channel and in The Family History Guide website: Quick Research Basics. As of this writing, there are three videos—United States Records, Forming a Research Strategy, and Developing Search Skills. About the Videos These videos range from two to three minutes each, and they are provide you with the...

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December 14, 2020

Avoiding the “Same Name Trap”

Note: This article by Kathryn Grant was published previously in the Hearts Linked Together blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Picture this scenario: You’re working in the Family Tree on FamilySearch.org when you see a possible duplicate for John Chambers. And both of them have a wife named Elizabeth. Are these two John Chambers the same person?...

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November 29, 2020

Finding Your Ancestors Using Land and Property Records

Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. For genealogical research, there are two main components of land and property records: maps and documents. Using both, when they are available, is a great benefit to research. This is especially true because often the documents, especially...

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November 14, 2020

A Wealth of Military Records

We just celebrated Veteran’s Day on November 11, commemorating the service and sacrifice of so many of our U.S. military servicemen and women. What we may not realize is that there is a huge variety of military records available for research. Many of these records include vital information, such as birth and death dates, as well as names of relatives....

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November 14, 2020

Finding Your Ancestors Using Employment Records

Note: This article by James Tanner appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. You may never have thought of using employment records to find an ancestor or relative but there is a huge untapped reservoir of records out there around the world. The challenge is that employment records are only rarely classified...

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November 9, 2020

Finding Value in Land Records

Land records might seem not to have any value to genealogical research, especially with the emphasis on vital and census records for most upcoming genealogists. However, they can be extremely helpful in locating where a family may have lived, especially when census and vital records are not available in that area for one reason or another. One reason is that...

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November 8, 2020

Goldie May Update: Finding Missing Children

The Goldie May Chrome extension is a great tool that combines resources in the United States census with your information in FamilySearch. It acts as a personal research assistant, prompting you to explore relevant areas for research on your family lines. There is a new feature in Goldie May: it helps you survey your female ancestors in the 1900 and...

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November 1, 2020

Finding Your Ancestors using Death and Cemetery Records — Part One: Lost and No Recovery

Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Death and cemetery records go way beyond death certificates and grave marker inscriptions. To begin to understand all of these genealogically valuable records we need to focus on what happens and what records are created when a...

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October 18, 2020

Going through Town Records

When you think of doing local family history, you probably think of records held at the county level. This is especially true for many of the Midwestern and Western states, where records are kept in county and state archives. However, in other parts of the United States, such as the New England area, local records were originally kept at the...

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Category: U.S. Research

Finding Your Ancestors in Poor House or Poor Farm Records

Introducing Quick Research Basics (QRB) Videos

Avoiding the “Same Name Trap”

Finding Your Ancestors Using Land and Property Records

A Wealth of Military Records

Finding Your Ancestors Using Employment Records

Finding Value in Land Records

Goldie May Update: Finding Missing Children

Finding Your Ancestors using Death and Cemetery Records — Part One: Lost and No Recovery

Going through Town Records