February 29, 2024 · Christopher Hall
Kew Lunatic Asylum - Criminal in the Family
This is the ninth installment in our on-going series about Robert Austin Shearn - A Criminal in the Family.
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Notes from the research
138 articles on finding ancestors, reading records, and keeping the story with the evidence.
February 20, 2024 · Christopher Hall
Conflict (Bruce): Isaac Jones Bruce - Exploring Sources
In the first post, Conflict: Which Bruce Line Is Correct, If Either? , we presented conflict and the research question.
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January 30, 2024 · Christopher Hall
Bicycle Theft Dunolly - Criminal in the Family
This is the eighth installment in our on-going series about Robert Austin Shearn - A Criminal in the Family.
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January 20, 2024 · Christopher Hall
Conflict (Bruce): Azariah Benjamin Bruce - Exploring Sources
This is the second in our Conflict - Bruce Series. In the first post, Conflict: Which Bruce Line Is Correct, If Either? , we presented conflict and the research question. In this post we delve into the sources that are attached to Azariah Benjamin Bruce at FamilySearch to see...
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January 10, 2024 · Christopher Hall
Conflict: Which Bruce Line Is Correct, If Either?
My grandmother was a Millspaugh. Her grandparents are at the bottom row of each of the images here. The images are from Ancestry and FamilySearch. The Ancestry image shows only her maternal grandparents which is the concern for our discussion. Tracing back Mary’s paternal line...
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December 30, 2023 · Christopher Hall
Parkside Lunatic Asylum: A Closer Look - A Criminal in the Family
This is the seventh installment in our on-going series about Robert Austin Shearn - A Criminal in the Family.
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December 20, 2023 · Christopher Hall
What Happened to the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers
On a bitter cold, mid-December evening, on a small island in the Outer Hebrides of far northern Scotland, the icy seas were raging as waves crashed a hundred meters up the side of the craggy cliffs. Two of the three men who manned the isle’s lighthouse were securing equipment...
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December 10, 2023 · Tracy Hall
Irish Country Surnames
Have you come upon surnames in your family tree and thought, “wonder where that came from?” In my research for my ever elusive Irish family I came across different and unexpected surnames. We know there are surnames based on your appearance: Kennedy “helmet headed” or O’Sulliv...
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November 30, 2023 · Christopher Hall
Melbourne to Adelaide and Incarceration in the Parkside Lunatic Asylum - A Criminal in the Family
This is the sixth installment in our on-going series about Robert Austin Shearn - A Criminal in the Family.
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November 20, 2023 · Tracy Hall
Three Tips for Finding Your German Origins
Do you know where your German ancestors' place of origin is? There is no central repository of records in Germany, and during the period when the highest amount of emigration occurred there was no standard of what records were kept and preserved. What does this mean? Your Germ...
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November 10, 2023 · Tracy Hall
Tips for Dealing with Endogamy in Your DNA Matches
Have you ever heard the word endogamy? It is the way people within the same group marry over and over again. Some groups that have this issue are Acadian, Jewish, and Island populations, including Ireland. Another group of people it includes are those in isolated areas. An exa...
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October 20, 2023 · Tracy Hall
Using Newspapers for Genealogy
Are you utilizing newspaper articles and obituaries to find your ancestors? I remember when I was younger my grandma read the newspaper front to back, and then she would cut out any articles, obituaries, pictures she wanted to keep for her posterity. Of course I had no clue wh...
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