At some point, every record you locate about a given relative should be analyzed and compared with other documents about that same relative. It’s the only way to determine if records are relatively consistent and to get a good overall picture of the ancestor. There’s a bit of a “but.” When I first locate a document, I try and only think about what that document says and try to forget other things I know about the person. That helps me to see all the clues in the document and also helps to doublecheck if I do in fact have a document on the same person. So after you’ve discovered that new-to-you record, think about it and see what it really says. Then compare it to what you think […]
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There are a variety of records created during the 1890 time frame that can help fill in the gap of the missing 1890 census. Newspapers and city directories are two great sources for this time period–depending upon the area where one’s ancestors lived. Keep in mind that there may be other records as well. It all depends on where your family lived, the amount of money they had, their religion, etc. In the case of one of my families, they were members of a denomination that practiced the rite of confirmation and, fortunately for me, some of their ten children were of an age (early teens or so) to have been confirmed during the 1890s. It took some searching, but locating the confirmation records lead me to discover […]
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