Posts in April 3, 2010

If you can’t find an ancestor in a specific record, go back and review his entries in other records or consider searching in different materials altogether. It may be that in working in those other materials that you find the clue that explains why the ancestor is “missing” in the record that had you stymied. That’s how I found an ancestor in the 1840 census, by looking in non-census records I got my answer. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!