Virginia Chancery Court Records
Library of Virginia Virginia Memory: Chancery Court Records I have been lacking a death date for Mary Stella (Henritze) Ferguson for several decades. Jewel Sykes suggested a Texas death with no date probably found in The Ferguson Connection by...
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Second Cousins – Excellent Photograph Repositories
Never seen photographs of your grandparents may be with second cousins. Siblings share parents First cousins share grandparents Second cousins share great grandparents Third cousins share great great grandparents Fourth cousins share great great great grandparents So what...
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Newspaper Wedding Announcements Offer Lists of Out-of-Town Guests
Periodically I check the surname Henritze in various web site and search engines. In addition to Ancestry, FamilySearch, Heritage Quest, Fold3, Google and Bing, three genealogically orientated sites I checked today are: Elephind.com GenealogyInTime.com Mocavo.com
Read moreTop Hundred Surnames in the 1990 Federal Population Census
Genealogists, family historians and researchers need a surname to begin. Without that, you really are searching in the the dark for the proverbial needle in a haystack. When a surname is extremely common, it is almost as though there...
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Surname Mistakes and Errors in Records Make Research Difficult
Anyone who has reseached one particular surname for a while, has a list of mistakes, changes and evolutions of the surname. My list of options for the surname Henritze includes: Heindrix Heinritz Heinritze Henderson Hendrickson Hendrix Heneritze Heneritzy Henitzy...
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Revolutionary War Pension Application Files, Memory and a 42 Year Old Photograph
Research Memories – Genealogical or Historical or Both Reading a Revolutionary Pension Application File can be an exercise in futility or an exquisite treasure trove treat or both. The applicant can’t remember exactly when he served or how long,...
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Namesakes – Family, Friends, Military, Political, or Local Heros
Two and a half years ago on a weekend stay in Glenwood Springs, I saw an episode of NCIS entitled “Yankee White.” It was the first episode I had ever seen of this series, inadvertently a rerun of the...
Read moreYou 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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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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