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Locate the family groups, identify the babies, check for death dates of grandparents, get a fashion time estimate and reunion photographs will be a cinch to date. Break it down, who is missing from the photograph? Who ought to...

Land Ownership Maps are like photographs, a snapshot of a specific time and place. Sometimes land ownership maps can solve genealogical questions and others times they pose the questions themselves. The county courthouse should have the most up-to-date maps...

Do not stop at the index, go to the source. Research in the source, read it page by page.  See how the book, journal, card file, however it was kept, and then, read about the source, why was this...

University of Cincinnati Libraries Digitized Historical Records Thank goodness some orphanage and orphan asylum records have been saved and preserved and thank the University of Cincinnati for the accessiblity of those from the Cincinnati House of Refuge. The Little...

Heritage Quest, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org and various newspaper websites have made family history research rewarding so instantaneously, it has devolved into genealogical retrieval instead of research. The Soothsayer in Julius Caeser said “Beware the Ides of March.” For genealogists, it...

WEDDING DATE vs. APPLICATION DATE A common conflicting date issue is when the wedding date found differs from another researcher’s date by a day or two. Upon investigation the two dates are for different events surrounding and including the...

Curiously, the odds are pretty good that there will be people of the same name in the same place at the same time. Think of all the little girls named Ashley, Brittany or Jessica born in the 1980s. Names...

Use the Neighbors to Find a Missing Family in the Census. If you are going to search a census year for a specific place and time, what matters is the readability of the images, the handwriting is the same...