Our recent Rootdig posting on search results from the South Dakota Birth Certificate Index is essentially three tips: Babies aren’t always immediately named First names can be spelled a variety of ways People can live somewhere a short time A couple can be related in more than one way Reminder: Genealogy Tip of the Day is sponsored by GenealogyBank. In December, they are offering an annual subscription for a monthly rate equivalent to less than $5 a month!
There is still room in my December 2015 session of “US Land Records.” More details are on our announcement page–join us!
Transcriptions of documents are great and make reading the entire item and searching for specific text easy. But if your relative signed documents, there are times when those signatures need to be compared. Do you keep track of whether or not you have a known ancestor’s signature and do you try and collect as many digital images of those signatures as possible? In tracking the movement of one relative, I finally realized that I had a “known signature” of him when he signed a son’s marriage bond and a signed document from a record that I thought was him in a location a hundred miles away. If I had “flagged” him as someone for whom I had a signature, the comparison would not have taken so long.
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