September 11, 2020 School records are an often overlooked resource for genealogical information. There are a couple of reasons for this. Researchers often don’t even try to find school records because they figure there will be nothing of interest in them. It is true that school records frequently do not contain a lot of genealogical …
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Vertical Files
September 4, 2020 Like most genealogists, over the years I’ve made great finds in various repositories that helped fill in the blanks in my family tree. Some of those treasures are documents that I dug out of old boxes in courthouse basements or from microfilmed copies of estate files, deeds and so on, but some …
A Few More Good Books
August 28, 2020 Last week I wrote about a few books based on surprising DNA results. This week I thought I’d mention a few more books that deal with family history. They’re stories of an individual who learned of a family secret and how that changed their lives. While not strictly genealogical, these books rely …