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Where might I find General Orders No. 77 dated 11 Nov 1943?
I have found a document that notes the renaming of Edinburgh Field, Trinidad to Carlsen Field (click image for full size):
To get more information about the renaming (and the individual behind it) I would like to locate "General Orders No. 77"…
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Learning about photo/picture framing with lead back?
I have a watercolour of an English scene done by my grandmother in 1929. It was framed by T.N. Ahuja & Co in Rangoon. The back appears to be lead!
Is there something exciting lurking behind or was the lead just to protect the painting?
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What would 'not educated' mean?
In her memoirs, an aunt writes of her nephew having no education. The time is late 1860s, an immigrant lad from England aged 20 when written. He arrived in Australia when 3 years, the son of a station hand on a property in Darlington Point, New…
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Are Tiny Tafels still used?
I remember years ago, that many early genealogy programs used to produce a compact way of describing the main surnames found in a family genealogy. This format was called a Tiny Tafel. It had a header section with general information and included…
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Determining date of photo from Tuscaloosa
I am trying to ascertain the date of the photo below.
The photograph is a cabinet card, taken in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, by photographer FM Turner. There are no markings on the back of the card.
Dimensions: 6.5" x 4.25"
Cardstock is smooth on front…
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Recording person on Ancestry.com who may or may not have existed?
I have received an old genealogy report from a relative and it reads thusly (names changed for brevity):
1. Parent b. Ireland, d. Ireland. Notes about parent.
children
2. i Child.
3. ii Child.
4. iii Child b. abt xxxx.
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Where would I look for declassified CIA documents regarding 1960-1970s in Chile?
I am trying to research an individual who may have been involved with the CIA operations related to destabilizing the Chilean government during the 1960s and 1970s. I am aware there are a series of document declassified regarding Chile in this time.…
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Applying a corrected relationship to a census on Ancestry
Ancestry.com provide a way of applying per-user corrections to census records. However, this only supports changes to a personal name, place of birth, or date of birth. I would like to report a relationship problem but I see no way of doing this,…
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Can DNA test prove an African ancestry?
Are DNA tests reliable enough to verify ancestry from Africa? How many generations would appear in such results, since if we go back enough we'll find that human race generated in the African continent?
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Support for variants of family-unit
I hope everyone will agree that the definition of a "family unit" is very subjective. Although many products, and the old GEDCOM format, offer some type of FAM record, I have never seen an agreed definition of it.
Most of us have found family groups…
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What does the term "Intervale" mean in the context of New Hampshire land transactions and deeds?
I have found the term "Intervale" used in the property descriptions of different Rumney, New Hampshire deeds; these descriptions generally rely on metes and bounds ("from the large rock at the stream to the ...").
Image that follows comes from a…
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How many genealogists and users of genealogy programs?
For a presentation I'm giving, I want to indicate how many people in the world there are doing genealogy and/or family history, and how many users there are of the more popular genealogy programs (including desktop, web-based, and other).
Are there…
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Would there be 1830-1850 US naturalization records for children born Canada to parents born in US when relocating back to US?
Michael Preston (1792-1849) was born in New Hampshire; his first wife, Mary Merrill, was born there in 1795. This couple removed to Canada not long after their marriage, ca18 June 1816. Most or all of their five known children were born at…
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Identifying Lemuel K. Preston's 1830s-era birth place of "Broome, L. C."?
In his 1852 Providence, Rhode Island, marriage record,1 Lemuel Keyser "L. K." Preston (ca1828-ca1881) was reported born "Broome, L.C.," the son of Michael and Mary Preston.
I interpret the reference, "L. C." to mean Lower Canada, but I want to…
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How can I find out the name of this street?
The image below comes from a page from the 1940 US Census:
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The page header from the Census is a poor scan. While I can make out the location as Washington DC, I'm unsure as to the ward:
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Can anyone…
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