More about Draft Registration Cards from World War I and World War II
Researching families named Brown and Williams is easier than gearing up to go after questions about one of the multitude of Smith families, unless and until there is a ton of background information. The more information you collect about a...
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Birth Dates Available on World War I and World War II Draft Registration Cards
Middle Names Middle names, signatures, draft registration information and work history are all significant historical and genealogical facts available on the the United States draft registration cards for World War I and World War II.There are instances where the...
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Census – Skipped, Enumerated or Double Dipped
There is a long standing joke among researchers, the census you don’t find, is the one during which the mother-in-law, great aunt or some other ancestor with a great connection-yielding clue, lived with the family. It is true every census can not be...
Read moreSocial Security Death Benefits Index
In the mid 1980s, a research buddy and friend, Sue Hawkes Cook told me about a Cambridge, Ohio firm that tapped into a database, the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, now known as the social security death benefits index; the social...
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Brick Walls
Brick walls can stop you dead in your tracks, seriously put you and your research permanently on hold in a certain line. They can be breached. Break them down, climb over them, walk around them, tunnel under them, auger...
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