A cousin graciously shared with me a copy of a casefile a relative had shared with her. I was very glad to get it. The relative of the cousin received the file from the National Archives years ago. I wondered if the National Archives had sent her the entire file as it looked like the original copies were made in the days when mail in requests were for “selected documents.” Turns out there was at least one page the relative was not sent. In this case, the missing document was not a “huge” discovery, but sometimes it can be. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!
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I recently wrote about my brick wall ancestor, Ira Sargent, in a recent column for Casefile Clues. One of the records mentioned was his 1900 census enumeration. I had originally looked at it years ago, probably when I was 14 or 15 years of age. I had seen it several times in the interim and really hadn’t given it a lot of thought. A reader pointed out that part of his census entry looked like it was in a different hand and perhaps had an item written in it after the census taker had made his enumeration. I’m not certain what was going on with the entry, but it makes a good point that perhaps something you’ve seen several times over several years may contain an anomaly that […]
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