Caroline County (Va.) Register of Colored Persons of Caroline County, State of Virginia, cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866.
It is hard to set out families prior to the 1880 census with certainty. The 1850, 1860 and 1870 federal census list household members by name but do not include relationships. Inferences can be made when the male head of...
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Three Books for the Ages
Old Turtle, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Little Prince Philosophers for Kids Bonnie and Jack, Mele and Malakai, Erin and baby Grace, you all make me think of books to have at home for the kids and for you....
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When All You Have to Work With Are Initials
Find Mrs. J. R. Evans. Mary Ann (Smeck) Barlet and Tobias S. Barlet of Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania had three children; William Edward, Emma Rebecca, and Hannah Mary. The eldest son died young. When Emma Rebecca (Barlet) Bradshaw died in...
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Philadelphia Church Records Filmed, Digitized and “Indexed”
Philadelphia research isn’t easy. Even the maps make it hard. It’s a city between two rivers, the Delaware on the East and the Schuylkill on the West. S. A. Mitchell published a colored map with the wards identified, but...
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