Tag Archives: census records
Census Records
A great resource for family tree researchers are census records. In the United States, we can access census records in some areas as far back as 1790 and currently as late as 1930. Census records remain sealed to the public for 72 years after they are taken. While early census records will often fail to provide too much information and often not even the names of anyone except the head of the household, later census records can provide a wealth of [...]
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Tech Tuesday – To Share Or Not To Share
In researching your family tree, most people will come to a point where geographic location or a lack of digitized resources available online has your research at a standstill. To make a sweeping generalization, for the most part, our families rarely stayed in one place their whole lives and the chances that we, as family tree researchers, now live in those towns is slim. We live all over the world and do most of our research utilizing resources available online. The digitization [...]
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Kautz Family Tree – Part II – Christian L. Kautz
As I mentioned in my article, A Wealth of Knowledge and Information, today I am focusing on my Kautz side of the family tree. Christian L. Kautz is my great-great grandfather. He was born in November of 1855 on the Kautz Family Farm in Dupage County to parents, John Jacob Kautz and Saloma Hansel. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
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Today in American History – Billy the Kid
On this day in history, William Henry McCarty, Jr. was born. This name may not be familiar to you however. Some of this man’s more well-known names include William H. Bonney, Henry Antrim, and he was best known as Billy the Kid. Who is Billy the Kid? Where did he come from and what caused him to become one of the United States’ most notorious criminals? Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites [...]
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Family Tree Research
The search for our ancestors can be such a rewarding experience and yet quite time consuming and frustrating. The question is how to trace your family tree. Each new record or piece of evidence we find brings about new information about our families. Finding a marriage record for an ancestor is quite exciting. A wealth of information can come from marriage records including a spouses name, place of marriage, birth years, etc.. With the continuous introduction of more and more digital [...]
