(from Dick Eastman’s Daily Newsletter – March 20, 2015) Overheard at a genealogy conference recently (repeated from memory so the wording might not be exact): Person #1: “I won’t put my genealogy information online because I am afraid someone might steal it.” Person #2: “Where did you obtain all that information?” Person #1: “From freely …
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Invisible Female Ancestors
(from Kimberly Powell’s About Genealogy Weekly Column on March 3, 2015) The individual identities of women who lived prior to the twentieth century are often very tangled in those of their husbands, both by law and by custom. In many places, women were not allowed to own real estate in their name, to sign legal …
Top Free Online Marriage Indexes & BMD Databases
(About Genealogy by Kimberly Powell February 10-2015) Discover your ancestors in these free online marriage databases and indexes. Some even offer digitized copies of the original marriage records for online viewing. 1. GenWed.com This free index links to numerous online marriage databases and indexes from across the Web, for the United States, Canada and the …