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African American Genealogy Research: Using the new Virginia Death Index & 1866 Cohabitation Records in Tandem

21/07/2015
Brian Sheffey
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I’ve been doing what I call ‘deep research’ for my early to mid-19th Century black ancestors…

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What’s in a maiden name? When cousins marry

24/10/2011
Brian Sheffey
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In my previous post I covered the importance of accurately recording maiden names.  And this post…

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Recording names: Maiden names

24/10/2011
Brian Sheffey
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One of the common challenges I come across in my family history research has to do…

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