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 […]
Fortunately I only have one set of negatives where some of the images have been cut into individual pieces. I’m not certain why, but at least they were all in the same envelope. The cut apart negatives served to remind me not to jump to conclusions. There could have been a picture that someone didn’t want anyone else to see. There could have been a negative or two that someone wanted to give to someone else. Maybe the photos that didn’t turn out were removed. Maybe one or two strips of photos were cut apart for some reason but all the photos were retained. Note: I’m still digitizing negatives and am using this Kodak scanner for making digital scans of my negatives.
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There were actually three registrations for the World War I draft in the United States. The cards were different. The cards for the first and second registrations had a corner that was to be cut off if the registrant was of African descent. The second card asked for the place of birth of the registrant’s father. The third did not ask for marital status. There are other differences between them as well. World War I First Draft Registration Card World War I Second Draft Registration Card World War I 3rd Draft Registration Card
“You’re still looking for that?” Those who are not involved in genealogy don’t understand the urge to keep looking. However there does come a time when one has to realize that you might not find that for which you are looking. The question is when do you realize that you need to stop looking? The key to a reasonably exhaustive genealogy search is to look through materials that might reasonably contain information that addresses the issue you are trying to resolve. In the case of finding an original picture of the stuffed toy Curious George I have from my childhood, that required me going through all the print photos and the negatives I have from my parents. Both need to be searched because I don’t have every print […]
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