Black Sheep Chicken Thief
There's a black sheep chicken thief in our family tree. I found my father-in-law in the 1930 census as an "inmate" of the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory at the age of 19. Because my [...]
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Aug 2015
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Jul 2015
Four Founders of Jamestown Identified
Four founders of Jamestown identified this week with the news from Jamestown Rediscovery that the bodies that were exhumed in November 2013 were indeed prominent leaders of the first British colony that gave rise [...]
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Jul 2015
Social Security Applications and Claims Index
Ancestry has added a great new database with 49 million records for researchers working in 20th- and early-21st-century America: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Entries in this database tend to have more [...]
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Jul 2015
Finding Missing German Marriage Records
Today's post is about finding missing German marriage records. I've been reading German parish records pretty steadily for five years now, and encountered my share of records that take a lot of finding and [...]