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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 […]