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    Month: June 2020

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    German Surnames: Where They Come From and What They Mean

    If you’ve been researching your German ancestors — especially in light of MyHeritage’s release of the new and exclusive North Rhine-Westphalia Death Index 1874- 1938 — you’ve probably been spending a lot of time with their surnames. Perhaps you’ve been

    Talya June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    Perspectives on Boston’s 1764 Smallpox Epidemic

    On 13 Apr 1764, John Adams sent his fiancée Abigail a story about being inoculated against smallpox in Boston. Through a cousin of Abigail’s, Dr. Cotton Tufts, Adams and his brother had received a referral to Dr. Nathaniel Perkins. At

    Unknown June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    What’s In A Name?

    1794 Petition of Jacob Burkholder Do you have ancestors whose surnames were mangled in a variety of ways? Most of us do. Spelling wasn’t exact prior to 1900 and clerks often recorded names as they heard them. Often our ancestors

    Olive Tree Genealogy June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    My Last AncestryDNA AutoCluster Analysis From Genetic Affairs – Post 1

    I ran my last AutoClusters for AncestryDNA on Genetic Affairs on 11 March 2020, and I’m glad I did – see News From Genetic Affairs: Ancestry Demands They Stop Collecting DNA Match Data.  I finally  got around to looking at the

    Randy Seaver June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    The U.S. Version of “Who Do You Think You Are?” has been Renewed for Another Season

    Dick Eastman, author Dick Eastman has been writing this genealogy newsletter for 24 years. He has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He has worked in the computer industry for more than 50 years in hardware, software,

    Dick Eastman June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    How to Add Context to DNA Matches

    No. I still haven’t figured out my parents’ DNA connection. It’s a journey, and along the way, I keep finding tools and methods to help make sense of DNA matches.After giving up on DNA triangulation, I wanted an easier way

    Howard Cameron June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    Are Your Dead Ends Hiding DNA Matches?

    Some dead ends are more important than others when a DNA connection is missing.Despite some juicy leads, I still don’t know why my parents share some DNA. They have a distant cousin relationship that I can’t nail down. So let’s

    Howard Cameron June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    Finding Richmans, Richs, and Marshmans in the Hilperton Land Tax Assessment Records, 1773-1793 – Part II

    I wrote Part I of this series last week, saying:  “Continuing my quest for finding the parents of my 3rd great-grandfather John Richman (1788-1867) in Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, I recalled that I had obtained digital images of the Hilperton and

    Randy Seaver June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    Comments on the Same Name = Same Person Problem

    Using the Findmypast.com website, I can search for the frequency of any person’s name in all of the website’s millions of records. I can also filter the names by area and time. For example, if I were looking for an

    James Tanner June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    1921 Czech Census for Podkarpatská Rus (Now Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine), Online!

    If you have ancestors from the slice of Europe which is currently Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukraine), was Podkarpatská Rus (Czechoslovakia) between WWI and WWII, and which was part of Hungary before that, then prepare to get excited.  After this area became

    Howard Cameron June 21, 2020June 21, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more
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