Carol Stetser
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Mining for Genealogical Gold with Prospector
June 24, 2022 If you’re not already using Prospector, you’re missing out on a great genealogical resource. Prospector is a library book sharing service that includes more than 200 public, academic and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Between these libraries, users have access to over 30 million books. All it takes to access this …
The Difference between Emigrate and Immigrate
June 17, 2022 Many of my ancestors and their families arrived in the United States during the mid-19th through the mid-20th century. This means that whenever I discuss them or write about them, I mentions that they were immigrants. Or maybe they were emigrants? Because I use the words infrequently, I tend to get …
Finding and Using State Censuses
June 10, 2022 Nearly all genealogists are familiar with the U.S. Federal Census, which has been taken every ten years since 1790. Far fewer are familiar with similar censuses taken by various states. Most of these state censuses were taken on the off five years from the federal censuses. For example, Colorado took a state …