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For reasons that totally elude me, I’m picking up a new project: determining the educational level of various direct line ancestors and their siblings. It sounded easy, but it’s turning out to be more of a project than I thought. I’m fortunate that in the United States there’s the 1940 census that asked the question of last grade of school completed. That census caught all four of my grandparents and all of their siblings but one (my parents were not alive in 1940). That’s the generation where I’ve decided to initially focus as my parents and their siblings is a fairly small group (my father had one brother and my mother had no siblings who survived infancy). The 1940 census is one place to ascertain educational levels. Death […]
As I looked through the list of graduates from the 1926 class of Loraine (Illinois) High School, I noticed one thing immediately: five of them apparently preferred their middle name over their first name. It was interesting that the middle initial was even used and not omitted entirely but perhaps someone felt that at least some homage needed to be paid to their entire name. Is that name you have for an ancestor actually a middle name? Are they occasionally lurking in other records under their first name? Sometimes we are fortunate enough to know a person’s actual first name. Other times we are not.
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