Is Your Ancestor In The Often Overlooked Non-Population Schedules of 1850-1880?
This post contain affiliate links. Read my full disclosure policy here. Let’s jump outside of the genealogy box again and explore non-population schedules. You know the ones? Those census schedukes taken beside the “regular census” in 1850-1880 collecting a variety of additional information. In the 1880 census, my GGG grandmother Panthea Overby Elliott is listed as “insane”. The Elliott family includes her husband Elias Elliott, 7 children, and a housekeeper. The youngest child was just 1 year old. Panthea…..insane?! Hmm….. could I learn more about her and what this “insane” designation meant for her? Yes. Yes, I can! For this part of my research, I needed to explore the Non-Population…
Tutorial: How to Research Your Ancestor With a No-Surname Search
This post contain affiliate links. Read my full disclosure policy here. Jesse Haley of Halifax County, VA seemed to disappear from the records for a while in the mid-1800’s. Hmm….did he leave the area? Or was he just hidden in the records? Haley seems like a straight forward name to research with it most common misspelling being “Hailey”. Still, I struggled to find Jesse in the records. Has this happened to you? You might be not be finding your ancestor in search results for a variety of reasons. Why You Might Be Missing Your Ancestors in Your Searches A surname may be “misspelled”. The surname was fluid. Take my Howard…
Tutorial: Using Ancestry.com’s Card Catalog
How often do you use Ancestry.com’s card catalog feature? Often times we are very good at researching the genealogy collections and databases we know. We are comfortable in those records. We have learned their idiosyncrasies. Right? But, our research becomes stalled. We’ve exhausted our tried and true records. In the back of our minds, we are wondering……. Am I missing other helpful genealogy records? You (I!) might be. How do we find what other records might exist? For you Ancestry.com users, the card catalog comes to the rescue! It’s an amazing genealogy tool for your toolbox. How To Use Ancestry.com’s Card Catalog! When you search the card catalog, remember you are…
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