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Birth place points to Quaker Monthly Meeting
I was perusing some in-laws to my ancestors, and noticed something interesting. One gentleman's birthplace was listed as Stillwater MM, Belmont, Ohio. I couldn't find any Stillwater in Belmont county, but then found out that the MM stands for…
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Searching for great grandfather Arnold Kuhn who lived in Poland then Russia?
Is there any way to trace the origins of my great grandfather Arnold Kuhn?
He lived in poland and had a family there I believe towards the end of the 1800s and early 1900s.
At some point he moved alone to Russia and met my grandfather's mother, but…
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What is the actual date of death for this self-contradictory death certificate?
I'm looking at the following death certificate:
http://sharing.ancestry.com/5522904?h=da4a8d
Which is transcribed in part to read:
Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Certificate of Death
File No: 42650
Place of Death: Schlien…
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Unable to import data from Ancestor Research Tool (ART)?
I spent a couple of weeks researching my family tree back in 1999 documenting my findings in a program from Everton Publishers named Ancestor Research Tool. It appears to be a Foxpro database I can open and view the dbf file, the folder contains…
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Offline availability of commercially available online sources?
I want to gain an understanding of commercial genealogy services from the perspective of a market that is described as "embryonic" (Germany) in Ancestry's Ancestry Global Family History Report 2014.
Especially I am wondering to which extent…
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How to interpret Quaker dates entered after 1752 but referring to before 1752?
Consider the following Quaker document:
http://sharing.ancestry.com/5454387?h=94e830
Which Ancestry.com shows as having these details for Hannah Wright:
Name: Hannah Wright
Birth Date: 27 Nov 1751
Birth Date on Image: 27 Ninth 1751
Birth…
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Where can I find Pennsylvania Archives Series II?
I'm trying to locate the probate of James Wright from March 4, 1760 in Frederick County, Virginia and see references on the web to it being in Pennsylvania Archives Series II. I cannot find any such online document, so perhaps this is a hardbound…
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What churches in/near Ward 6, Albany, New York State might have baptized Scottish baby in 1854?
I have asked an earlier question about the brief time my 2nd great grandfather Robert John Steven Sellers and his parents Robert Sellers and Margaret Clacher spent at Albany in New York State as Finding New York City/State records relating to…
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How to organize your sources (digital system)
I'm using an application to store and work on my research. I can have a source, with multiple entities referring to it. Each entity has a unique "page" for the source. Additionally each source can have multiple media items under it. So I have…
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Current name of Jatotowicze village from 1903 Russia?
I'm trying to locate the current name of the village my grandmother was born. She was born in 1903 in the village of Jatotowicze, in or near the township if Iwje, in the province of Nowogrodek. She is ethnically Polish. I believe this area is in…
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Where to find Will of Giles Chichester from 1820s, probably in Somerset or Guyana?
My 4th great grandparents Robert Chichester (1767-1830) and Martha Noake (1762-1836) married on 13 Apr 1797 at Branscombe, Devon and had five children:
Priscilla (my 3rd great grandmother) was born illegitimate on 22 Sep 1796 and baptised on 16 Oct…
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Could photo be Edward Nettell (1812-1879) and Maria Hocking (1811-1902) of Illogan, Cornwall?
Below is a photograph from the album of my great grandfather Thomas Anslow Hitchcox. The album was given to Thomas by his mother (my 2nd great grandmother) whose maiden name was Emma Symons Treloar Billin on 5 Feb 1890 (his 22nd birthday).
The…
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Where to find information about Grünberg and Rosenbaum relatives from Danzig?
My grandmother Dora Grünberg b. Danzig 11-Mar-1920 d. Perth 31-Jul-2016 came from Danzig to Australia when she was 16 and has very little knowledge of her families names or locations.
Where is the first place I can start searching, she knows her…
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Techniques for searching Somerset electoral rolls?
Find My Past has recently released a collection of Somerset Electoral Registers. The date range for the collection is 1832-1914.
I am just beginning my research in Somerset. I have one family of interest, shown on the 1851 Census on Class: HO107;…
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Finding alternate indexes or record sets for passenger lists / ship manifests from Germany?
I'm researching German immigrants to the USA. Some of their records can be found in NARA's Access to Archival Databases, in this collection:
Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Germans to the United
States, created, ca. 1977 - 2002,…
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