Posts in February 3, 2012

My children’s great-great-grandfather apparently disappeared around 1920. In a renewed attempt to find him, I  have decided to look for him in areas where he had siblings, aunts, uncles or cousins. Some of his immediate family was in the Chicago, Illinois, area, but research on his parents indicates he had uncles and aunts in Texas and Canada–two places he could easily have settled. So when someone “disappears” don’t go “nationwide” until you have to. Keep in mind that they might have settled, even temporarily, near a member of their extended family. ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!

We rarely get “newsy” on Tip of the Day, but we’re making an exception for this issue. If you use the Social Security Death Index and are a US resident–please consider contacting your representatives in Congress and make it clear that the Social Security Master Death Index does more to prevent fraud than cause it. Learn more here: http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2012/01/threats-to-ssdi.html ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!