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Troutfetter Said Leibo Had No Gun 26 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
It seems the Trautvetter/Troutfetter family is involved in more than their fair share of shenanigans. We've written before about Philip Troutfetter whose exploits in the late 1890s covered two contine...
Updated on FamilySearch: Seattle Passenger Lists 25 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
This is showing as having been updated since our last update: Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Latest Offer Fr...
Are You Relying on Google Alerts to Do Your Work? 25 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
I posted a blog entry "How Good Are Google Alerts" on my Search Tip of the Day blog, but I thought I'd mention it here also as I know there are some who rely on Google's "alerts" to notify them of a v...
Including Identification Details 23 Aug 2013 | 02:51 am
I really like this picture of my great-grandparents and their two youngest children. Unlike many photographs I have, it doesn't seem staged--the clothes are on the line, after all. And the daughter se...
Getting Negative About Evidence 23 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
The word "negative" can be confusing when applied to evidence. Negative evidence is "evidence" because it is something we expected to find and did not. The word "negative" is used in the sense of "not...
My Blogs and Newsletter 22 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
For those of you who did not know, this is not my only genealogy blog. Here's list with the links. Enjoy! Daily Genealogy Transcriber Genealogy Tip of the Day Rootdig Genealogy Search Tip You can...
Abandoning the Grands and the Greats 21 Aug 2013 | 10:15 am
Writing is about being clear and sometimes terms are not as clear as we would like. Terms can be especially confusing when describing family members. Degrees of cousinship are often confusing to genea...
Can Ancestry.com Tell Us What the Changes Are? 20 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Is it too much to ask Ancestry.com to indicate what is "new" about a database on their search page for that database? This image is a screen shot of the "New records on Ancestry.com" that appeared on...
Haste Makes Waste and "How" Do I Know? 17 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
This post began with an error. In my original haste to post this picture to another website, I incorrectly identified one of the children. The back of the original had the individuals identified, but...
Passenger Lists Updated on FamilySearch 17 Aug 2013 | 06:55 am
These passenger lists are showing as having been updated since our last FamilySearch update was posted: New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1925-1942 Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists,...
