In genealogy, there are negative results and there is negative evidence. Negative results are when we search for someone in a record and fail to find them. Not finding a James Rampley in the Pike County, Illinois, 1870 census or in any land deeds in that county is a negative result. James was not found. Negative evidence is when the failure of someone to appear in a record tell us something about that person. Family history indicated that Jurgen Goldenstein was legally married to a woman named Jean upon his death in California in 1972. Jean was not named in Jurgen’s probate file as an heir. The failure of the probate case to list Jean as an heir suggests that she was not his wife at the time […]
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A few years ago, I digitized my photographic negatives. Some of the negatives were still in the envelopes they were returned in after processing with just one roll of film per envelope. In other cases, negatives from several rolls of film had been put in the same envelope to save space. In those situations it wasn’t always possible to tell which pictures were on the same original roll of film. What I wished I had done when I digitized my negatives was to create a number of folders in which to separate the images. Each negative strip could have its own folder so that I know which pictures were taken at approximately the same time. If I have an envelope with just a few negative strips in it […]
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