Family History and Genealogy
Yesterday I wrote about the DAR application that I ordered for William Brookshire. I already knew a good bit about William, including the details of his military service (I have a copy of his pension application). I ordered the DAR application because I was looking for a source document for the names of his children. […]
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 […]
I’m slowly working my way through the online “Family History Skills” course offered by the National Genealogical Society. I just finished Lesson Two: Family and Published Sources and I really learned a lot. This lessson covers Published Sources, Finding Published Sources, and Source Citations. The second section: Finding Published Sources was the most valuable to me. […]
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