Moved to Colorado, Greeley’s Union Colony No. 1
Two Brothers and Two Sisters go West Newspapers are contemporaneous sources for court cases, property sales, fires, legal proceedings, deaths, marriages, births, robberies, injuries, nightly lockups, and even unclaimed letters. The Official List of Letters remaining in the Reading...
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Genealogical Value of Legal Notices in the Newspaper
Administrator’s Notice Legal Notices or Advertisements were placed in the local newspaper according to the laws and customs in each state. The Administrator’s Notice was to the local townspeople, asking those indebted to the estate to pay up and...
Read moreDouble Barreled Surnames, Compound Words and the Hyphenates
Posh or Equality or Custom In England double barreled surnames are perceived as posh while in America the trend from marriages in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, was for socially aware, independent, liberal thinkers to combine their surnames in...
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Surnames vs. Titles
Titles Aren’t Big in America It’s definitely not part of our American heritage to have aristocratic titles, though it is and has been part of the heritage of many countries that contributed boats and boats of immigrants, Britain, Germany,...
Read moreDo Surname Suffixes Help or Hinder the Research Process?
Compound Surnames – Suffixes Surnames began as a way to distinguish men of the same first name, John the Barber, John the Miller, John the Carpenter, John the Baptist, John the Red, John the Farmer, etc., etc., etc. Then...
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Compound Surname Research Issues
Last Names – Surnames Compound word surnames have idiosyncrasies which create indexing and researching issues in records across the United States. This is true when compound word surnames are misunderstood like many Spanish names that consist of two surnames,...
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Van Gogh and Beethoven – In Addition to Greatness, What Do They Have in Common?
Compound Surnames – Prefixes Compound surnames differ with regard to prefixes, varying by person, family and era. Compare Ludwig van Beethoven and Vincent Van Gogh. Beethoven is Beethoven and Van Gogh is Van Gogh and yet they could have...
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