Tag Archives: death records

Multiple Marriages

Finding marriage records when your ancestor has been married multiple times can be a difficult task, specifically on the bride’s side.  A woman who is married many times may very well go by many different last names over her lifespan.  Every time she gets remarried, she is then married under her previous marriage’s last name.  This can make it seem impossible to trace your ancestor back to find her maiden name! Here are a few hints to help you to [...]

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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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Family Tree

Is tracing down your ancestors and making a family tree something that you’ve always wanted to do but you’re just not sure where to begin?  The easy solution in family tree research is to start with yourself.  You are the beginning of your family tree.  This works out quite perfectly because we know ourselves right?  More often than not, we know our parents information as well, and at least our grandparents names.  This where you start making a family tree. [...]

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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 [...]

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