We are offering a 20% discount on my new “Errors in Records” webinar or the 1950 census webinar. Details are on our page–the coupon has been extended through today–despite what it says on the announcement page.
It is important somewhere to keep track of your research logic as you progress. Otherwise you might not remember “why” you are researching a certain person or why you concluded a specific reference was a match to your person of interest. It is especially helpful to track those reasons when the record you think is your person may not be so obvious later. I decided an 1850 census reference was to the person I was searching and who I had located in a 1870 census entry and other post-1870 records. The person could not be found in 1860 despite repeated, documented attempts. My research then continued with discoveries on the guy who was in the 1850 census, including details I had located on the wife of the 1850 […]
If you are unfamiliar with how wildcard and sound-based searches work on a website, then what you should do first is practice. Find an entry in the database and determine if you can find it using wildcards. It’s key that you know the entry is in the database before you practice. Wildcard information for some genealogy sites: FamilySearch Ancestry.com GenealogyBank
The recording of this presentation is now available. Additional details are on our announcement page.
I ran across a reference to a Hessian soldier whose last name was Trautvetter. He may or may not be connected to my family. But the moment I locate this and download the information to my own media, I also need to put this information in my genealogical database–even if I do not know how he is related. Otherwise I might forget I found it, not be able to locate it, etc. Johann Frederich Jacob Trautvetter can be entered in as an unrelated individual in my file. I can enter his biographical data, sourcing where I found it–and be certain to include his military service as a Hessian solder as that may make it easier to find him in my database later. Because he will be a sea […]
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