March 2014 – Barbara K. Henritze Research

Genealogical Date Issues

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 21, 2014

Mistakes, Errors and Doubles Exist – Conflicts Abound TRANSCRIPTION DATE CONFLICT Genealogically, the most common conflicting date issue is transcribing March 4th to March 4, 1814 to 3/4/14 back to March 4th, 1814, then 4 March 1814, then...

World War I Draft Registration Roger Lindsey Camden NJ

Two Men, Same Name, Same Age, Same Place, What Are the Odds?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 17, 2014

Curiously, the odds are pretty good that there will be people of the same name in the same place at the same time. Think of all the little girls named Ashley, Brittany or Jessica born in the 1980s. Names...

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 13, 2014

Samuel E. Hall and his wife Belvedora Hall had Daniel Fox draw some folk art in the front of their marital Bible in addition to filling out in a beautiful hand, the beginning of their Family Record. In 1880...

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Research the Neighbors

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 11, 2014

Use the Neighbors to Find a Missing Family in the Census. If you are going to search a census year for a specific place and time, what matters is the readability of the images, the handwriting is the same...

Analyzing Bible Records

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 5, 2014

Bible records can resolve so many questions if the entries were kept contemporaneously with the events they chronicle. Transcriptions and digitizations need to include title pages, family pages, pages of insertions, copies of the insertations and photographs of the...

The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence edited by Robin W. Winks

Hoaxes, Fakes and Mistakes

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 5, 2014

Last month I saw a rerun of a British Antiques Roadshow from Belfast in January 2009. The camera that captured the Cottingley Fairies was the subject of one of the appraisals. The idea that two girls fooled Sir Arthur...

Dr. Seuss' One fish two fish red fish blue fish

Cosa Dos

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 3, 2014

Theodor Seuss Geisel would have been 100 years old this past weekend. He was a prolific writer, more than sixty books. I have ten. Sixty is impressive by anyone’s count. I don’t love him, I don’t hate him, I...

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 1, 2014

Keep, Gift or Donate? When you are the lucky one, when you receive the physical book, the family Bible, you are probably thinking ahead to what will happen when it is no longer your responsibility. Recently there have been...