tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664956822451622712024-02-06T20:18:58.303-06:00Genealogy Tip of the DayMichael John Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785989524587275817noreply@blogger.comBlogger2721125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266495682245162271.post-79592983773406276652018-05-14T11:08:00.002-05:002018-05-14T11:08:35.940-05:00Reminder That Tip of the Day Has MovedAs a reminder, this blog moved to a new domain in 2015 and is no longer housed at Blogspot.<br />
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One of the reasons for creating ancestral chronologies is so that gaps in time can be noticed more easily. Are there fifteen years in your ancestor's life for which you cannot account? Are you certain the ancestor is where you think they are during that time?</div>
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<li><a href="http://genealogytranscriber.blogspot.com/">Daily Genealogy Transcriber</a>--can you read the handwriting--now with answers posted the next day</li>
<li><a href="http://genealogysearchtip.blogspot.com/">Search Tip of the Day</a>--not quite every day--just when I come across something</li>
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If you've located an entry in local marriage records that a license was issued for your ancestor, have you determined if the license was returned? The issuance of a license means only that a license was issued and that a couple was intending to get married.</div>
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Usually cancelled licenses are returned and "cancelled" is written somewhere on or near the entry in the record indicating the license was issued. But not always. Sometimes they are just not returned.</div>
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Sometimes licenses that are used are not returned by the officiant, even if the marriage took place.</div>
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<p dir="ltr">War of 1812 Pensions at Fold3.com-these are free on their site.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Using Colonial Land Patents at the Library of Virginia website-these images are free on the website.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Library of Congress online digital newspapers--free on their site.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Using local land records online at FamilySearch. Not all of these are online, but we will discuss how to use the ones that are.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2015/05/webinars-in-june.html">There are more details in our original blog post. </a></p>
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<p dir="ltr">All if these issues get to how we use and analyze the information contained in the record. </p>
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And there in the entry for one of John George's brother was the indication that their father's brother was the sponsor.<br />
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Twenty years later, on a whim I searched them again.<br />
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Knowing more about records and research, I found some of my relatives in the records.<br />
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Did you make assumptions about records early in your research...and would it be worth your while to revisit those records and assumptions?<div class="blogger-post-footer">------------------------------------
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All are things I need to think about in my research strategy to locate the ancestor after her husband's death.<div class="blogger-post-footer">------------------------------------
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The middle entry on this page of 1838 baptisms from Aurich, Germany contains the entry for my ancestor.<br />
<br />The fourth column contains the names of the sponsors. When I was trying to analyze the entry for my relative I thought the symbol in the middle red circle on the image were a part of the entry.<br />
<br />Then I looked at the other two entries on the image I made and realized that the items in the circle were partially used to number each entry and were not a part of the names of the sponsors.<br />
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If I had only copied the entry for my ancestor and not other entries on the same page, I might have missed that.<br />
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Don't copy only the entry of interest on a page like this. Copy other entries on the same page.<br />
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You can't made comparisons if you don't.<div class="blogger-post-footer">------------------------------------
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