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The following article was written by my friend, William Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Genealogy Rule No. 46: The family Bible you need was inherited by a female descendant of your ancestor, but one who married and divorced at least four times, and Continue reading Who Has That Family Bible?
The following article was written by my friend, William Dollarhide: Note: Any old wagon roads identified here in bold type are shown graphically on the map below. If you had ancestors who went from the Chesapeake to the interior of Continue reading Get On Board the Great Valley Road
The following article is by my friend, William Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Genealogy Rule #23: Locating the county where your ancestor lived is the first step in finding records about the time he was hauled into court for shooting his neighbor’s dog; Continue reading If He Owned Land, There’s a Deed
The following article was written by my friend, by William Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Rule No. 37: The Post Office shown on the census page where your ancestors are listed is for a town which appears on known map ever published. During Continue reading Taking the Census in the Applegate Valley of Oregon
The following article was written by my friend, William Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Rule No. 29: The page on the census where your ancestor’s town was enumerated has no page number. Since the first census of 1790, the states have not been Continue reading Peculiarities of the First Federal Censuses
The following article was written by my friend, William Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Rule No. 24: A cousin, once removed, may not return. Genealogists attempting to identify the places their ancestors lived using the federal censuses must first face the reality of Continue reading Census Records and County Boundary Changes
The following article was written by my good friend, Bill Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Rule No. 26: When in a courthouse miles from home, you will always find the breakthrough court record at 4:55 p.m. on Friday afternoon. This county list was Continue reading U.S. Counties Created or Abolished, 1920 – 1983
The following article was written by my good friend, William Dollarhide. If you are a genealogist, you are probably an avid user of the federal censuses, 1790-1940. But even experienced census users may not know about some of the obscure Continue reading The Census Day
After operating GenealogyBlog.com for nearly 9 years, I finally got spammed bad enough to take our site down. We use WordPress to write the blog, and various plugin tools to catch the spam, and delete it – and overall, it’s Continue reading We Got Spammed
The following article was written by my friend, Bill Dollarhide: If you have evidence that a man had died ten months before a certain child was born, it would seem to exclude that man as the potential father of that Continue reading The 1752 Calendar Change in British North America
The following article was written by my friend, Bill Dollarhide: Do your ancestors have you stumped? Well, it could be that some of your ancestors were stumped too — on Zane’s Trace. Here is a bit of history on the Continue reading Getting Stumped on Zane’s Trace
The following article was wriiten by my friend, Bill Dollarhide: Dollarhide’s Rule #9: An 1850 census record showing twelve children in a family proves only that your ancestors did not believe in birth control. Census records provide researchers a primary Continue reading Census Mistakes
The following article was written by my good friend, Bill Dollarhide: Here are ten places to look for a death record. All ten sources should be obtained for every ancestor on your pedigree chart, and every member of a family Continue reading Death Records: A Check List of Ten Documents Every Genealogist Should Acquire
Finding 1861–1869 Names of Residents & Civil War Soldiers Part Three – Florida through Illinois By William Dollarhide Between the 1860 and 1870 federal censuses, there were state censuses, statewide tax lists, military lists, and other statewide name lists produced Continue reading Finding 1861–1869 Names of Residents & Civil War Soldiers – Part Three – Florida Through lllinois
The following article is the Introduction to “Part 4 – The Best Civil War Resources Centers for Local & County Research,” from the new book, Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era by William Dollarhide. The book will be available Continue reading An Introduction to the Best Civil War Resources for Local & County Research