Abstract of Personal Names in the Reading Eagle newspaper January 1868 through March 1868 issues
The Reading Eagle was first published in January 1868 in Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. I have abstracted the local personal names from the January, February and March newspaper issues. Remember when you are searching, many times the editor used...
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Go West Young Man, Go West
Recently I have been reading and indexing the beginning issues of the Reading Eagle in early 1868. Several things stick out; the first is the number of railroad injuries, maimings and deaths, reported in almost every issue. It is horrific....
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Typesetting, Filming and News in Historical Newspapers
Several curious situations came to light while I was reading an 1868 issue of the Reading Eagle. Many local names were typeset as J. B. Hawley instead of Jesse B. Hawley, possibly to save on typographical overhead. Initials instead...
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Were They Skipped in the 1940 Census?
Finally, Ancestry has posted a list of Delaware, Nevada and the District of Columbia available for searching in the 1940 federal population census. FamilySearch has a map that shows Delaware, and Colorado as seachable and Kansas, Utah, Nevada, Oregon,...
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Death Notices and Obituaries – Not the Only Evidence of Death Dates Culled from Historical Newspapers
When did Great Grandpa die? between the 1860 and 1870 census? during the Civil War? or afterwards? Finding a female headed household in the census in 1870 leads to a presumed name of a deceased husband in the 1860...
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The Horse Books
My dad’s cousin Helen had horses that her daughters rode in horse shows around the South. They had lots and lots of gorgeous ribbons of every color in their den. I didn’t really want to own a horse because...
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