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Two Different Wedding Dates
WEDDING DATE vs. APPLICATION DATE A common conflicting date issue is when the wedding date found differs from another researcher’s date by a day...
Read moreGenealogical Date Issues
Mistakes, Errors and Doubles Exist – Conflicts Abound TRANSCRIPTION DATE CONFLICT Genealogically, the most common conflicting date issue is transcribing March 4th to...
Read moreTwo Men, Same Name, Same Age, Same Place, What Are the Odds?
Curiously, the odds are pretty good that there will be people of the same name in the same place at the same time. Think...
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Samuel E. Hall and his wife Belvedora Hall had Daniel Fox draw some folk art in the front of their marital Bible in addition...
Read moreResearch the Neighbors
Use the Neighbors to Find a Missing Family in the Census. If you are going to search a census year for a specific place...
Read moreAnalyzing Bible Records
Bible records can resolve so many questions if the entries were kept contemporaneously with the events they chronicle. Transcriptions and digitizations need to include...
Read moreHoaxes, Fakes and Mistakes
Last month I saw a rerun of a British Antiques Roadshow from Belfast in January 2009. The camera that captured the Cottingley Fairies was...
Read moreFamily Bibles
Keep, Gift or Donate? When you are the lucky one, when you receive the physical book, the family Bible, you are probably thinking ahead...
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