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Genealogical methods and resources. (Moderated)
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MINNESOTA Research Notes
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Our Minnesota research note for July reviews the availability of death records before 1908, when the State Board of Health began receiving duplicate copies. It is the duplicate copies that appear in the Ancestry.com index, and in the free index through the Minnesota History center. The note can be found at... more »
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Bad links
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It seems like recently I am seeing more and more bad links when doing genealogy research. Other if they do go to something it is not what I want but at a search page on rootsweb.ancestry.com. Has anyone else noticed this or is this just the sites I am visiting? When at rootsweb.ancestry.com am I missing something in finding... more »
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Searching the Castle Gaden Records.
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Steve Morse's Searching the Passenger Lists in One Step makes finding people much easier. However when searching the Castle Garden records many strange things happen. I was trying to find a Leo Oppenheimer who arrive in NY around 1868 from Bremen. i entered given contains leo and surname starts with... more »
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Need help with PAF 5 with Advanced Searches
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For the life of me I can't seem to make heads nor tails about using the Advanced Search routine in PAF 5. Can anyone offer guidance or even a tutorial that's better than the (nonexistent) Help link from the program itself? Could it be my installation is bad since the Help tab brings nothing? Thanks for guidance with this problem,... more »
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New MINNESOTA research note
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Our research note for June provides links to several free on-line indexes in Minnesota District Court and Federal Court series of naturalization records. With immigrants having a choice of where to file their papers, researchers may need to look at more than one repository or source for citizenship data.... more »
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Circuit Court Terms
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I have a question pertaining to the terms that circuit courts met to conduct their business. In the area and time I am researching, Hempstead Co, AR, early 1840s, they appear to have two terms, April and October of each year, but I also see another term listed at the top of these pages, Vacation. Clearly 'Vacation' must have some other meaning, as they... more »
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Searching in the old FamilySearch
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A couple of month while searching for th name Reesman. I could not find what I expected to find so I tried Riesman and Reisman. As I Remember Reesman and Reisman returned the same people but Riesman returned a different set of people. FS replied ...Today in answer to a query about a Karl Pleitner another helper... more »
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wiki
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Please, dear list administrator. Has this subject not run it's course? Thank you [ I stripped off the poster's name and approved this to the group. There may still be some useful things to say about wikis, but let's try to move beyond some of the "It is. It is not. It is. It is not." discussions that we've been... more »
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a good reason to interview people more than once
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If you've interviewed someone about your family history in the past, it might be worthwhile to do it again every few years. Last year I spoke with an aunt and learned things that she would not have told me 5 years ago. This aunt is now the last of the siblings; she has no one to answer to but herself.... more »
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Invitation From PlymouthColony.net
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Those of you interested in the families of New Plymouth Colony (1620-1681) and its Massachusetts daughter counties of Plymouth, Barnstable and Bristol (1681 to date) are invited to visit my new domain: [link] It holds a number of resources for the area, and the entire site is free and without advertising.... more »
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