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World War I Draft Registration

Today, I’m searching the Ancestry.com database for World War I Draft Registration cards, 1917-1918. I’m looking for a lot of names, and I’ll use different search strategies for different names. For example, when I search for the surname BUNTYN, I usually search three ways: 1.  I search for the exact name 2.  I truncate the […]

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Evidence Explained by Mills

I received Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace about two weeks ago.  Wow, what a fantastic reference book!  It contains 885 pages of everything a genealogist needs to know about citing sources. I have already flagged several sections with citation formats that I’ll use frequently.  There are a few that I’ll […]

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First post of 2007

Well, here we are in September! and I haven’t posted in about a year. Time just slips away from me… Connor had his eighth birthday back in March. Sionna will have her fourth birthday this coming December. We are still homeschooling, although sometimes it is a power struggle with Connor. Homeschool P.E. starts tomorrow at […]