<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Need to unsubscribe?<a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style=""> Manage here</a>. </font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Moon People</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Full-Text Searching 2026 Webinar--Save $7.50 before it is too late</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">--------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Moon People</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">---------------------</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">We all have them: someone who appears to have lived on Earth for only a few years. They arrived as an adult from the moon, appeared in a few earthly records, and then vanished. They leave no other apparent trace except for mention in records in a short, narrow time frame.</font></p><div id="m_3129039635509403106gmail-attachment_4370" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:5px 3px 10px;outline:0px;text-align:center;max-width:96%;display:inline;float:right;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:1px solid rgb(240,240,240);color:rgb(23,37,42);width:280px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4370" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_20170326_125657-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="300" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; max-width: 98.5%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; text-align: initial; border: 0px none; width: auto;"></font><p id="m_3129039635509403106gmail-caption-attachment-4370" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 4px 5px;outline:0px;line-height:14.4px;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Moon People</font></p></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Barbara (Siefert) Bieger Fennan Haase Haase has two such moon people in her life. One of them was supposedly her \u201chusband.\u201d</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Barbara was apparently \u201cmarried\u201d to a \u201cnon-legal\u201d husband in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, by the spring of 1856. At that time, her husband, George Fennan, appears as guardian for her children in county court records. His Germanic signature appears on two documents in the guardianship records, one of which is on a letter asking to be relieved from his duties a short time after being appointed guardian. He appears in no other local records.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The second moon person is Lawrence Knaeble. He was apparently a tenant in an apartment attached to Barbara\u2019s tavern in Warsaw in May of 1858 when he shoots an overly aggressive and drunk William Donahue who was a patron of Barbara\u2019s tavern. Knaeble was convicted on a manslaughter charge but was pardoned by the Illinois governor before serving his entire sentence. His only appearance in local records is his criminal conviction by a Hancock County court.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The moon people matter because there might be something on them that leads me to more information on Barbara. She\u2019s a German native whose origins have been difficult to research.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">I need to write up and organize what I have on Fennan and Knaeble. Fennan is known to have left the local area\u2013or at least refers to his departure in his letter requesting he be relieved of his guardianship duties. It\u2019s possible that Knaeble never returned to Hancock County after his pardon. It\u2019s also possible that neither of the men knew Barbara before they met in Warsaw and that there is no \u201cclue\u201d about her origins to be gleaned from information on them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">But I won\u2019t know if I don\u2019t look.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Unless I look on the moon. Maybe that\u2019s where all the answers I cannot find are located.</font></p></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">------------------------------------<br>Michael John Neill<br>Genealogy Tip of the Day</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="http://www.genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank">http://www.genealogytipoftheday.co</a>-----------------------------</font></div><div><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">January 2026 Full-Text Search at FamilySearch Webinar</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Intro price ENDING--regularly $37.50--save $7.50</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-----------------------------</font></p><div><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">We\u2019re excited to offer this revised presentation on the full-text searching at <em>FamilySearch</em>--reflecting changes made to the site since this was recorded in August 2025. We\u2019ve redesigned our presentation as this functionality continues to change. And\u2026we have an extensive handout complete with forms to help you find more people. </font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">If you have purchased an earlier version of this presentation--email me at <a href="mailto:mjnrootdig@gmail.com" target="_blank">mjnrootdig@gmail.com</a> for the code to order this revision for $10.</font></p><h2><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Fully Utilizing Full-Text Search: Revised for January 2026</font></h2><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Your purchase includes:</font></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>A 90 minute (or more presentation)</strong> you can view as often as you want.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Detailed handout</strong> with charts and forms to help organize your searches. Charts and forms sent as separate files you can edit and customize and not as a locked PDF you have to re-create yourself as a new document.</font></li></ul><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">We\u2019ll be including and discussing:</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Determining what is in Full-Text Search\u2014</strong>what you can access at home and what you will have to be in a FamilySearch facility or affiliate to access.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Seeing How AI Transcriptions are different</strong>\u2014they aren\u2019t like the transcriptions made by humans. That can change your approach.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Remembering that Full-Text means every word</strong>\u2014approaches need to differ as we aren\u2019t looking up a name in an index any more.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Asking Who</strong> is in the record? We aren\u2019t just searching for the main person like we did with traditional indexes. We\u2019ll discuss how to determine who could be mentioned in a record.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Determining How to search?</strong> There are a variety of ways to search and filter results. We\u2019ll see how each one works to help determine the best strategy.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Creating search strategies</strong>\u2014how full-text search changes your approach and why just dumping terms in search boxes is not always effective.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Determining what you found</strong> The interface does not always make this clear. We will show you how to get beyond the confusion and help you get enough detail for a citation.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Creating effective problem-solving approaches</strong>\u2014what to do when you cannot find something you want.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><strong>Demonstrating practical examples</strong>\u2014completely new people and families from our previous presentations.</font></p><p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="https://michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com/cart/add?product_id=246272&method_id=268990" target="_blank">Available for immediate download for $30</a>. 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