January 17, 2020 Back in the days when many of the records held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City were found on microfilm, most researchers were familiar with the FamilySearch Catalog (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog ). It was the only way to locate most of the resources held by the Library. Nowadays, many of those …
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Waiting for 1950
January 10, 2020 Now that it’s 2020, it occurred to me that it’s only a little more than two years until the 1950 census will be released – on 1 April 2022, to be exact. While I know two years is still a ways in the future, it’s really not too early to begin thinking …
A Sad Story – Finding Details in Newspaper Articles
January 3, 2020 On Sunday morning December 15, 1899, Jane Ann Terry left her younger sister, Edith, to watch over Jane Ann’s baby Fannie while she went to take care of some chores outside the house. Her husband, Durbin, had left earlier that morning to walk over to his parents’ home for a shave, but …