Journal
138 articles on finding ancestors, reading records, and keeping the story with the evidence.
November 10, 2022 · Christopher Hall
Research logs are an important part of genealogical research. We log our searches including any results positive or negative. The log helps us track and reduce our work. We do not want to unnecessarily repeat previous research. This saves the client money. Also, because it is...
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October 20, 2022 · Tracy Hall
Have you ever come across old family records that mention Prussia? Did you try to find it on a map? Unless you look at maps from the late 1700s up until the end of World War II you will find no trace of it now. Have you wondered what is the history of Prussia and what happened...
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September 20, 2022 · Tracy Hall
In our last blog we were discussing the surviving parts of the 1890 census. While most of the census was destroyed in a fire on January 10, 1921 there were six parts that survived. Last time we discussed the General Population Census Schedules, the List of Selected Delaware Af...
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September 10, 2022 · Tracy Hall
Anyone who does genealogy knows that there was a fire on January 10, 1921 in the Commerce Department building in Washington DC. In this fire the 1890 census was destroyed, or so most people think. However, parts did survive and can be very useful for genealogists. There were s...
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August 30, 2022 · Christopher Hall
For years we have grappled with conflicting evidence from the trees of others like FamilySearch, on findagrave.org, and other data about my grandmother’s great-grandfather. His name is Isaac Bruce. He had a son named Thomas Joyner Bruce who had a daughter who was my grandmothe...
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July 30, 2022 · Christopher Hall
We do family history research. We write family history reports and narratives along with our many other services . These tasks generally take us into the facts, figures, and statistics of a person or family. It is extremely valuable and important information. But it is informa...
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July 20, 2022 · Tracy Hall
I know the last blog was about German farming. Well guess what this one is about, things you should know about farming in Ireland. Farming in Ireland played such a social, economic, and cultural role for those who lived in rural areas. Yet, there are a few farming type things...
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One thing I have learned over the last few years is there are sometimes varying definitions for the same thing. Not only is that true for each country (that makes sense, right), but within a country each region or even each village could have their own definition or term. How...
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June 30, 2022 · Christopher Hall
For some reason maps have always fascinated me. Maps of all kinds. I have map books just because I like looking at them and learning about places. On this blog, we have written about how we have used maps for genealogical travel:
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June 20, 2022 · Tracy Hall
We are on a genealogy trip and will be looking for some records of babies that had been born at some point but that we did not know about. In the 1900 census it shows my great great grandmother had given birth to five children and four were living. Where do you even start with...
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June 10, 2022 · Tracy Hall
Even if you are not a full on genealogist or you are an occasional family historian you have probably walked a cemetery mostly found on Find A Grave or Billion Graves. However, if you cannot find the cemetery you are looking for on these sites, where can you go to locate a los...
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May 31, 2022 · Christopher Hall
Last year as I read from the journal of the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society called Greenwood Tree , in the March 2022 edition called Opening Pandora’s Box: Your Surprise Discoveries , about folks who have found interesting people including criminals in their family...
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