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When I was seven or eight, my grandmother gave me a fountain pen with a ring on the top to hang from a necklace. It was broken, tarnished and missing a tiny chip about a quarter of an inch...

While in the library for heat and power a couple weeks ago during a snow storm, I checked various databases and search engines for my surname, Henritze. I know pretty much who and what should be found. Henritze, Esenwein...

Births, Marriages and Deaths Last week, a friend shared wonderfully invigorating news, she is to be a grandmother next year. This in and of itself is not hard to believe, her daughter is in her late twenties, married, employed,...

W. A. Carver wrote McCurtain County and southeast Oklahoma: history, biography, statistics: a complete business and trade directory of the county, published in 1923 in Idabel, Oklahoma. This is one of many county histories available from Heritage Quest Online...

Recently, we lost electricity and had a snow day, just like when we were little and school was cancelled. I went to the library to get warm, read and work. I needed to check something on Heritage Quest. At...

More genealogical data is available from the Social Security Administration through the social security death benefits index, specifically Form SS5. In addition to clues on death date and place, birth date and social security card issuing state, the Social...

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...

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...

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...