August 18, 2023 Land records tend to be lesser-used genealogical resources. They have a reputation as being difficult to find and hard to use once found. All that handwritten legalese is just too tough to decipher and understand. As a result, some genealogists tend to neglect land records. That’s too bad. Deeds, particularly those …
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Mug Books – A Great Genealogical Resource
August 11, 2023 Have you ever heard of mug books? I don’t mean the ones that cops have witnesses comb through in search of a perp on television. I mean the kind that genealogists use to help them flesh out their family history. Mug books were never called that when they were published in …
Cause of Death
August 4, 2023 Genealogists are always interested in finding out what caused their ancestors’ deaths – especially if they were young when they died. I’m no exception to this rule, so when I discovered how many of my extended family had died as children and teens, I had to dig deeper. As I researched, …