The challenge of Ann
That “new” fourth great-grandmother March is, of course, Women’s History Month, a celebration of women that began in 1981 with a Congressional request for a Presidential proclamation of a “Women’s History Week” and — by 1995 — had evolved...So bad… and not so bad…
I simply remember my favorite things And then I don’t feel so bad… — Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, My Favorite Things There are times, in genealogy, when you can do all the right things… and still not find the answer. When you can follow...Think horses, not zebras
Think basics, not exotics It’s one of the most basic tenets of medicine. When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. Often ascribed to Dr. Theodore Woodward, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the 1940s, what it means in...Persistence and the dates
Keep checking back One of The Legal Genealogist’s favorite ancestors is Isabella (Gentry) Robertson. A favorite because she’s such a challenge — married before the 1850 census and without a single surviving vital record (no birth, marriage or death...Landing the fourths
Land documents a relationship It looks like the chase is done. This particular chase, at least. The Legal Genealogist is about to take the word “theory” out of the names of a set of fourth great grandparents — and from the name of their daughter, a third great...It’s not Elizabeth. Really.
That lovely old photograph So The Legal Genealogist is looking at those shaky leaves again this morning… And going through that SMH moment again. So here goes, one more time, one last old college try. Cousins, really, there are no photographs of Elizabeth...Google that, but…
Use the right Google! Reader Sherwin was frustrated at not being able to find what he was looking for. “In early 19th century Kentucky, an ancestor served as constable and as jailer,” he wrote. “The old Order Books speak of ‘the oaths required by law’ that he took for...And where were they then?
Just keep trying… It was 176 years ago yesterday that William Baker and his wife Mary Jane, called Jennie, welcomed their second-born child and first-born son. Thomas A. Baker, born 20 November 1844, was The Legal Genealogist’s first cousin three times...It’s just not as good
An alternative resource… but not as good Genealogists want the best resource. The one with the most information. The one with — oh, just as one example — an ancestor’s signature. The original record, however and whenever we can get our hands on...Subscribe by Email
