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Signatures & Handwriting Analysis: Is it the Same Man? 13 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
While an individual's signature is not consistent from day to day or document to document, certain patterns and style characteristics can often be used to help identify the signature of a particular i...
10 Don't Miss Historical Photo Collections on Flickr 1 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am
The online photo management and sharing application Flickr hosts a wide variety of historic photo collections contributed by library, archive and historical society collections. Most of these institut...
How Long Has it Been? 31 Jul 2013 | 03:52 pm
How long has it been since you looked at some of your older research? Revisited your notes and files? Examined your source citations (or lack thereof?). All genealogists, even the professionals who ha...
10 Questions to Ask Before You Visit a Research Facility 31 Jul 2013 | 05:31 am
It's fun to sit on my couch in my pjs and search for my ancestors, but when I can find the time I always prefer the firsthand thrill of the hunt - talking to relatives, poking around in cemeteries and...
Genealogy Research in a New Locality 31 Jul 2013 | 05:08 am
No matter how experienced a genealogist is in the records of a particular locality, time period or ethnic group, when genealogy research takes us to a new locality we are all novices. It is so easy to...
What You Won't Find in the Records 31 Jul 2013 | 05:04 am
I have a copy of the marriage certificate for my grandparents marriage in Melun, France, and the passenger list for my grandmother's arrival in America on a "war bride" ship following WWII. But what t...
Searching BLM Tract Books on FamilySearch 30 Jul 2013 | 07:02 pm
One of the many wonderful collections of digitized records available online at FamilySearch is the Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, "United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-19...
Where Did They Go? 16 Jul 2013 | 02:43 pm
Raise your hands if you have an ancestor who disappeared from the records of a specific locality without the courtesy of a forwarding address. I bet most of you are raising your hands right now! Migra...
Timeline of Major U.S. Public Land Acts 1 Jul 2013 | 02:32 am
Beginning with the Congressional Act of 16 September 1776 and the Land Ordinance of 1785, a wide variety of Congressional acts governed the distribution of federal land in the thirty public land state...
Treasures of the U.S. National Archives Online 1 Jul 2013 | 02:17 am
Over the past several years, the U.S. National Archives has wholeheartedly embraced the Internet as a tool for engaging with their users - not only are they digitizing many of their more popular reco...
