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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...

Titles Aren’t Big in America It’s definitely not part of our American heritage to have aristocratic titles, though it is and has been part of the heritage of many countries that contributed boats and boats of immigrants, Britain, Germany,...

Last Names – Surnames Compound word surnames have idiosyncrasies which create indexing and researching issues in records across the United States. This is true when compound word surnames are misunderstood like many Spanish names that consist of two surnames,...

My Top Ten Personal Favorite Genealogical Research Libraries   I love libraries and try stop by to visit even the smallest library when I travel. If the library is having a book sale that day, all the better for...

What to Do While Waiting for the Mail to Arrive (a continuation of Start With What You Know) Family History   –   Tennie Bray   –   Part Two You have interviewed every family member who will still talk to you. You...