Posts in August 10, 2021

I have numerous obituaries for my ancestor Heipka (Mueller) Dirks who died in Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois, in 1924. For the most part they contain the same set of details about her life. When one has an obituary for a person from three or more newspapers it would seem that all the bases are covered. That’s not necessarily true. I recently located another obituary for her in a Camp Point, Illinois, newspaper. It is the only obituary for her which indicates where the family attended church before one of the “correct” denomination was built in the town where they actually lived. I had already located the records the discovery was not earth-shattering. But it makes the point that another “copy of the same thing” may not be the […]