Church records can be a key record type when researching your U.S. ancestor before civil registration of vital events was required. Church records were generally kept in a register by the local clergyman and might include baptism, marriage, and buria ...
I have been researching my husband's ancestors, the Beck family of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania. During the process of my research, I was able to locate land records for Daniel Beck and his sons. These land records provided great evidence that ...
I have been working on my four-generation project for accreditation through ICAPGen. One of the types of records I need to have a good working knowledge of for the Mid-Atlantic region is land records, so I have spent the last couple of days stu ...
2020 is the Year of the Census. With extra time on our hands for genealogical research, have you considered completing a census study for an ancestral family? I have been working on Generation 3 of my 4-generation project to submit for ...
Church records have been very valuable as I have researched the family of Jacob Fisher in Pennsylvania. Since the formal registration of births, marriages, and deaths in the state didn't begin until the late 1800s and even into the early 1900's, I h ...
As I have been researching Jacob Fisher in Northampton County, Pennsylvania for my Research Like a Pro Study Group, I have found some great records! One record set that I am really excited to have discovered is Pennsylvania Archives. These volumes ...
The latest assignment in my Research Like a Pro Study Group involved research planning. I have already created a research objective, analyzed existing sources by creating a timeline of known information, analyzed each piece of known information, and ...
The Research Objective for my Research Like a Pro Study Group involves distinguishing between two different Jacob Fishers, both enumerated in Northampton County, Pennsylvania in the 1790 US Census. In their book, Research Like a Pro, A Genealogis ...
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