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Category: searching census records
How to find, read, and use US Census Records in ancestry and genealogy research.
Fazewell / Fazwell / Tazwell Sheffey’s correct name
Census records can be a real bugbear for anyone researching their family tree. It’s even more…
A mystery solved: How Black Roanes came to be in Iowa
An unexpected find has lead to a bit of an exciting discovery. I literally stumbled across…
Digging deeper with Census Records: Part 3
A question solved – many other questions raised. Finding my great-great-great Grandfather George Henry Roane’s lost…
Digging deeper with Census Records: Part 2
Scanning the Census Records: The Roanes of Essex County, VA (1870) So picking up where I…
Digging deeper with Census Records: Part 1
Regardless of your race, if your ancestors arrived in the US and settled in a rural…
A tale of two Emily Petersons (Edgefield County, SC)
This is a classic example of a genealogy conundrum I’m faced with. I’m searching for more…
Recording names: Maiden names
One of the common challenges I come across in my family history research has to do…
What’s in a name #2: Getting to grips with the misspelling of names
There is another fun aspect of searching for your ancestors in historical records: the misspelling of…
What’s in a name #1: abbreviations & nicknames
Abbreviated first names one of the things to get to grips with when searching online census,…