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".

There is a link below that last paragraph to enumerator instructions from 1850-1950.

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.

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.

Genealogy on YouTube

Feedspot has listed its Top 25 YouTube channels for genealogy.

Lost military records

A fire in 1973 at National Personnel Records center in St. Louis destroyed a significant amount of records covering service personnel who were discharged between 1912 and 1964. Read here about what records were lost.

So. Carolina Revolutionary War records

The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has made a new set of records available on its Online Records Index: more than 11,000 Revolutionary War documents "presented by citizens to the treasury in support of claims for military service, supplies, and other contributions rendered during the latter part of the ...war". A press release, including a link to the records, is here  Source: ResearchBuzz

Irish Genealogy Project Archives

Here  is  a good free site from the Emerald Isle. It's broken down by category and includes gravestones, obituaries, census and church records. It is somewhat limited but growing thanks to volunteer contributions