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How can I distinguish between name changes and missing records?
Every now and again I come across a person, who seems to have changed their name. For example, a birth/baptism record may have one name, while subsequent records (marriage, census…) use another for the only child of that age in the family. It's a…
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What are the pre-1993 US Air Force Specialty Codes?
Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC's) are used to denote what responsibility or job someone is performing in the Air Force. The system was overhauled in 1993 to better match recent restructuring and modern positions. The previous system of AFSC's began…
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How to get an elderly person to provide saliva sample for DNA?
I have an Ancestry autosomal DNA kit that we are trying to get a 95 year old woman to take and having trouble. I provided the hints that 23andme offers to my cousin that is trying to administer the test:
If providing adequate sample volume is a…
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Asking distant cousins for DNA?
In my family we have a DNA contradiction – two cousins (at about the 4th cousin level) took a Y-DNA test, but did not match and had two completely different haplogroups.
Since then, I have traced living cousins with the same surname – the only ones…
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Determining the area covered by an Enumeration District (ED) on the 1939 Register?
The way places are organized and indexed in the 1939 Register has me somewhat befuddled. Sometimes even when looking at an original page, the parish or village name is not shown, making it difficult to know where the household you are looking at was…
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Organizing geographical reference material for English parishes?
Abstract: I prefer to standardize place names in Family Historian to take advantage of modern geo-coding and mapping features, and to record historical place names in research notes. But how do I organize my research notes so that I recognize all…
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Who are the parents of George Juden?
I've spent a lot of time working on this brick wall and I was hoping for a fresh pair of eyes, heres what I have:
George Juden is my 3rd Great Grandfather, He married Elizabeth Salvage and had five children. His life before this is scattered with…
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What was the weather like?
I would like to build context for certain genealogical events I am researching, and one component - as dull as it may seem - is weather. For example, it would be interesting to know what the weather was like on the day my ancestors got married, or…
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Genealogy software based on open database format?
What open format-based genealogy software do exist?
I am making a research about available genealogy programs and I am a bit disappointed with the results. I am seeking tools which are feature-rich, agile and extendable at the same time. The main…
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How to recover information from a well weathered limestone tombstone?
I have several times now encountered limestone tombstones that are well weathered, as well as sometimes just dirty or have broken and have been face down or face up for years.
There are numerous tutorials on how to and NOT TO clean a limestone…
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How do I unaccept a hint in Ancestry's online tree system?
Some time ago, I confused two people with the same name. I've since split off the extra person and corrected the information for both people, but the "main" person I'm interested in still lists a number of "hints" for the other guy under the…
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Why did my Uncle's Death Certificate Not Appear in the Family History Library's Archives?
In 1987, an uncle, one of my Dad's siblings, disappeared without leaving any word of his whereabouts. At the time, he lived in Denver, Colorado.
Fast forward to 1998, I left the military and took a cross-country trip that led me through the Family…
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Korean book listing family history for 5000 years - is this particular to a specific culture in Korea?
My manager told me today that her husband has a friend who is from Korea (I did not ask but I assume this is South Korea). She said that because that friend is the father's oldest son, the father before his death gave him a thick "book" (from my…
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Tracing my Swiss German roots through to World War I an unknown fallen soldier
My dilemma is finding out about my great-grandfather's war history. Here's a brief summary of what I know.
My father is Swiss. His father was Swiss' and served as a border guard in world war II. It's his dad I'm keen in finding more facts about.
I'm…
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Wife's surname used as second name to indicate Smyth child named after someone from her Osment family?
My 5th great grandparents Sarah Osment and John Smyth married on 13 Jul 1764 at Stoke Damerel, Devon.
The ten children I have for them, who appear to have all been christened in or near London, appear to have been named:
John Osment (1766 – 1767),…
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