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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Merchant Records
July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 23 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 23 – Merchant Records Your ancestors lived in a community. In that community they lived, worked and shopped. Store owners kept records and ledgers of their businesses. It is possible to find your ancestor listed among the IOUs or accounts payable/receivable for a merchant in their area. Merchant records (also known as ledger account books) help define a community and its residents in…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – WorldCat
July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 22 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 22 – WorldCat Discovering WorldCat and how to use it in conjunction with genealogy research was a game changer for me. So, what is it? WorldCat is essentially the world’s biggest card catalog for books, articles, etc. Using WorldCat enables the genealogy researcher to search libraries around the world for family history resources to advance your research. A variety of genealogical information can be found…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Private Collections
July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 21 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 21 – Private Collections Private collections can contain a wealth of genealogical information. These may include family letters and papers as well as a church or organization’s papers. Contained in family letters are often references to other family members including family that had migrated some distance away. References to travel, impacts of a war and political thoughts and activities may be recorded. In…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Tax Records
Join me as we talk tax records! July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 20 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 20 – Tax Records Tax records are some of my favorite genealogy resources! Why? [So glad you asked!] With tax records, the genealogy researcher can track an ancestor year by year as opposed to decade by decade with the census records. These records also provide clues to an ancestor’s life including: Age Wealth Who lived in…