Tag Archives: family tree
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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Very Little Information
I recently did family tree research for someone who have very little information to start with. Her recently deceased mother had gone by many different names over time, had moved many times to multiple states, and had little to no communication with her family. She knew nothing about her mother’s side of the family and wasn’t even sure what her mother’s legal name was. With this sort of information to start off with, researching a family tree can seem like [...]
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Cousin Relationships
One of the things that I found most difficult to understand when I first started doing family history research is the relationships of cousins. I remember finding a long-lost cousin who informed me that we are second cousins; once removed. That’s great! Now what does that mean? Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
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Kautz Family Tree – Part III – John Jacob 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. John Jacob Kautz is my great-great-grandfather and the last generation I have a photograph of in the Kautz side of my family tree. He was born in July of 1828 in Baden-Baden, Germany to parents, Christian Kautz and Anna Marie Pfeiffer. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
