"Occasionally it even turns out what appears to be conflicting information from two different census years actually agrees, based on the instructions".
There is a link below that last paragraph to enumerator instructions from 1850-1950.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Improving Your Genealogy Skills pt 2
This article, again from The Occasional Genealogist, discusses making full use of the census by taking advantage of the clues that are not always obvious. We thought this was especially interesting:
"Occasionally it even turns out what appears to be conflicting information from two different census years actually agrees, based on the instructions".
"Occasionally it even turns out what appears to be conflicting information from two different census years actually agrees, based on the instructions".
Monday, August 27, 2018
Improving your genealogy skills
Click here for the first in a series of articles we will be linking to that will make you a better genealogist, courtesy of the Occasional Genealogist.
Friday, August 17, 2018
Mis-translation of names
This short article from the Olive Tree Genealogy blog explains how names can be drastically transformed in the immigration process, causing a lot of confusion for researchers.
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
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Ellis Island Research
The Statue of Library- Ellis Island Foundation is a good place to start your immigration research. The link is here .
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Buncombe County (NC) has added 50,000 names to its Slave Deeds database. To read about it and find links to the database, click here. ...
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From APNEWS.COM
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Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records. This ...