Flitting – Genealogical Research Implications
Flitting, also known as theTraditional Moving Day, was April 1st in Pennsylvania Reading Eagle, Mon., 31 March 1884 p. 3, Womelsdorf. Renters can be more elusive to research than homeowners purely because of a lack of centralized lease repository...
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Genealogical and Historical Research and Presentation Quilts
Presentation quilts beg to be researched. All those names, inked or embroidered or both, mean a place of origin can be determined through census research. The why of the presentation may be harder to find. Family research and local...
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Local Stringers Extend the Circulation and Distribution Areas of Newspapers
Wouldn’t you love to research Romanus Ortlip? While looking for something else, I found the best name ever in the Reading Eagle. Reading, the county seat of Berks Co., Pennsylvania supported quite a few newspapers in their time. Because...
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Pesky Unknown Middle Names in Church Records
Catechumens from Trinity Reformed Church near Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania A top source for middle names is the series of Draft Registration Cards held by NARA available from Ancestry and others, for men in 1917 and 1918 for World War I. Even...
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The Emperor Has No Clothes On
The Gringo: A Memoir Hans Christian Anderson wrote a short story about an Emperor who ordered a set of clothing from some weavers/swindlers who outfitted him in nothing and those same men convinced the general populace that those who...
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Anniversary of Civil War Deployment of the Ringgold Light Artillery
In response to President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers, the Ringgold Light Artillery left Reading on April 16th 1861, the first troops to reach Harrisburg. The First Defenders association held a reunion April 16th 1885 in Reading, Pennsylvania celebrating...
Read moreAncestors Who Fought in the American Revolution May Be Found in Newspapers of a Later Date
Newspaper Research Just Keeps on Giving Don’t despair if your ancestor is not listed in the DAR annals or the Pension files at NARA. Those are the easy paths. Most of those men were either lucky enough to have...
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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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