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September 22, 2023 One of my favorite parts of genealogy is its unpredictability. You never know exactly what you might find when you sit down to research. Maybe today will be the day that a distant cousin reaches out to you. Perhaps someone will respond to a twenty-year old post. If, like me, […]
September 15, 2023 The federal censuses are a basic resource for genealogical research in the U.S. They have been taken every ten years since 1790. However, many genealogists focus their attention on the censuses taken in 1850 and later. That’s because since 1850, all household members have been identified by name. The censuses taken […]
September 8, 2023 Today would have been my father’s 100th birthday. Carl Victor Fernelius was born at home in the small Utah town of South Weber on September 6, 1923. Although it was only one hundred years ago, my father was born into a world that was very different from today. On the day […]