February 2014 – Barbara K. Henritze Research

Bibles

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 27, 2014

Preservation vs. Access Where would historians be if families across the country had not contributed their massive manuscript collections to various repositories over the last four hundred years? I wrote a lecture about finding the right repository for your family...

Would I Recommend The Last Bunch of Books I Read?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 26, 2014

A friend asked what I was reading and what would I recommend. I don’t do that much. Everyone’s taste is so different and mine had never matched someone else’s. She was persistant, so here is a list of the...

Google Images – eBay – Research

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 18, 2014

Every so often I check Google Images to see what sort of new Henritze images are out there. Most of them are recent photographs labeled with some particular Henritze’s name. This older style photograph was different and so it...

David or Daniel?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 13, 2014

Most styles of cursive handwriting leave the words David and Daniel looking way too similar. If you don’t already know the given name, it can be very tough to tell which it might be. If you have trouble telling...

Did They Move to Florida?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 6, 2014

Arizona, California, Florida, North Carolina and Texas all have huge callings as retirements spots. When people retire, they want better weather, fewer chores and less restrictions. Newport, Rhode Island and various shoreline communities in Maine, Connecticut and Long Island...

James Richards Evans of Jefferson Co., Pennsylvania

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 4, 2014

Rev. James Richards Evans of Pennsylvania married Hannah Mary Barlet of Pennsylvania in 1941 in Florida. Hannah a distant cousin of mine, third cousin twice removed, was married three times. She and her first husband had two children that...

Pennsylvania map with Boundary Lines for Jefferson Co. delineated

Punxsutawney Phil lives in Pennsylvania, But in What County?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 1, 2014

I have been reading about Punxsutawney Phil for fifty years including articles in the Weekly Reader, an important, well-known source of news. Wikipedia lists his surname as Sowerby but that is uncorroborated. I have never checked a Pennsylvania map for his...

1870 Virginia Caroline Co Bowling Green federal census

Always, Always, Start With What You Know…

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 1, 2014

Except When You Can’t! You Hit a Brick Wall and Need To Take a Flying Leap Over the Wall, Through the Wall, Around the Wall. You dearly hope a hypothesis will catapult you over the wall or at least build a...