Research

Goals for an Organized Research Process

22 January 2012 And More

One of our first topics in US Records Study Group was “Organizing and Evaluating Research Findings.”  When people talk about “being organized,” I think they are often referring to the physical “stuff”:  the documents, photos, and artifacts that they have accumulated.  Can any of this stuff be located at a moments notice? I have a [...]

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Do You Miss Research Opportunities Because You Think You Don’t Have Time?

22 July 2011 Research

I was in the neighboring county a couple of weeks ago when I realized I had about thirty minutes to kill, so I sped over to the library. Normally I would not have done this, because I didn’t have any genealogy information with me and I would have thought I didn’t have enough time to [...]

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North Carolina Probate Records on FamilySearch

13 July 2011 Evidence

A couple of weeks ago, a tweet passed through my Twitter stream from @FSHistRecords announcing that North Carolina Probate Records had been added to FamilySearch.  Since I have many, many ancestors who lived in North Carolina, I immediately clicked on the link.  This is one of those non-indexed databases that FamilySearch is doing now, in [...]

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Uncle Worth’s Burial Permit

11 July 2011 Evidence

This is the permit to bury my grandmother’s only brother.  I’m excited about this record for a couple of reasons.  For one thing, I’d never seen a burial permit before; I had no idea so much good genealogical information would be included.  For another, it corroborates my grandmother’s story about her brother’s death. Analysis of [...]

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Uncle Walt and Aunt Julia Get Married

18 June 2011 Analysis

On this date in 1933, Walter T. Hemphill and Julia Bowers were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony.  They were married in Murray County, Georgia. Walt was my grandfather’s older brother. Analysis From this record, I learned Walt and Julia’s marriage date and place.  It also gave me a primary source for Walt’s middle [...]

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Ordering a DAR Application

15 June 2011 Research

Last month I spent time working on finding sources for some unsourced people who had been in my database for a long time.  There was one family, in particular, for whom I wanted documentation, but I didn’t find much.  The children in this family had all moved out long before the 1850, every-name census and [...]

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June Genealogy To-Dos

6 June 2011 And More

I had considered skipping To-Dos this month, given my recent lack of motivation and the fact that summer is here, the cicadas are mostly gone (yea!), and I want to spend time outside.  Instead, I decided to do a very abbreviated list. Research Saturday I was contacted by a DNA match from 23andMe.  We think [...]

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Genealogy To-Dos: May Wrap-Up

5 June 2011 And More

Ugh.  I started off strong in May, but I’ve been oddly unmotivated since about the third week of the month.  The fact that I’m writing this post on June 5, rather than May 31 is further evidence of that apathy. Research The last three months, I’ve focused my research on one surname per month.  I’m [...]

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Rhoda Hemphill Weds James Gregory

22 May 2011 Analysis

On this date in 1910, Miss Rhoda Hemphill and James W. Gregory were joined in the honorable state of matrimony in Murray County, Georgia. Rhoda was my maternal grandfather’s first cousin, making her my first cousin twice removed. What I learned from this document: I did not know that Rhoda had married; for some reason [...]

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May Genealogy To-Dos

1 May 2011 And More

Here is my to-do list for May, mapped to my annual goals. Research The last three months, I’ve focused my research on one surname per month.  I’m switching gears this month. Unsourced people:  I have a number of people in my database that don’t have sources, from the days when I was less diligent about [...]

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