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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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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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