A March 1960 issue of the Mt. Sterling Democrat published a list of burials in the Becam Cemetery in Brown County, Illinois. It included references to Henrich and Geske Miller, along with their dates of birth and death. If I’m using this as my source for their burial information and their dates of birth and death, then all my citations should be to this newspaper article–not to the tombstone or records of the cemetery. That’s because when we create genealogy citations we site what we use and in this case I used the newspaper. I do not want to indicate I saw the tombstone when I did not. I won’t know what is on the stone exactly until I see it. Note: It turns out the stone indicates […]
In July of 1945 an heir searcher was in Adams County, Illinois, looking for heirs of a Harm Jelden. This does not appear to be one of those estate scams that were popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. There really was a man named Harm Jelden who had the parents and brother listed. I’m working on finding the estate records. There’s a number of genealogy reminders in this item though. Newspaper articles may leave out key details. This article does not mention where Harm Jelden died and one may think he died in Missouri because the searcher was from there. That would be an incorrect assumption. This article has the maiden name of Harm’s mother wrong–it was Behrens, not Burns. People can appear in newspaper […]
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