You Found a Divorce Date Where?
Marriage Applications as a Source for Divorce Dates Divorce information may be found on subsequent marriage applications. Some of the questions involve proving that you are capable of being married. Are you of age? Are you an imbecile? Have...
Read moreIt’s not all Cinderella and the Wicked Step-Sisters
Blended families, those with one or two multiple marriages leave different subsets of children up to and including those in the movie “Yours, Mine and Ours.” One of my favorite parts of the book, Who Gets the Drumstick, about the...
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Blended Families Leave Clues in the Census
Step-Family vs. Nuclear Family Research Describing a family, most people start with the parents, father, mother, then children oldest to youngest, finishing up with the baby. This is true today, and was true 200 years ago. It is a...
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Given Name Clusters Can Be Heritage Clues
Name Clusters and Namesakes Given names patterns can lead researchers both backward and forward. Check all grandchildren and grandparents for naming clues and possibly great-grandchildren and great-grandparents. Name clusters offer heritage traces, just as namesakes do. If you are...
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Naming Patterns Amongst the Scotch Irish Presbyterians
One commonly held belief is the first male child was named after the maternal grandfather, the second male child after the paternal grandfather, the third male child after the father, the first female child after the maternal grandmother, the...
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Do They Payout?
Life Insurance, worth it or a scam? In the spring of 2012, MetLife, amongst other insurance companies, was accused of selectively using research in the social security death benefits index to stop paying annuities, while at the same time,...
Read moreHeartfelt Thanks
Humane Society of Boulder Valley I have been lucky to know the Humane Society of Boulder Valley in a myriad of ways. Initially, I took my daughter there to play with the animals. We can’t have cats in the...
Read moreNewspaper Articles Run the Gamut from Births to Deaths
Genealogical research in newspapers runs the gamut from birth to death with everything in between up for grabs, marriages, divorces, desertions, bed and board notices, adoptions, etc. Reading the newspaper for an area of interest gives tons of details...
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Flitting Leaves Records
Moving Day Records Americans move, a lot, all over the country, every day. Utility bills, telegrams, school records, journals, cards, and letters can be sources of those moves. Those records are likely to be found in a family’s ephemerel...
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Dirty or Broken Type and Typesetting Mistakes Can Make Newspaper OCR Difficult
Digitized newspapers are a boon to genealogists, family historians and researchers, especially for the big three, births, marriages and deaths, folowed closely behind by divorces, separation, bed and board issues, court cases, flitting (the movement of renters on a...
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