What Alternatives Are There For The Missing 1890 Census?

A person who starts researching their family history very quickly runs into the question – ”What Happened to the 1890 Census? The Census Bureau explains it best in this link: U.S. Census Bureau History: 1890 Census Fire, January 10, 1921 In summary, a fire at the U.S. Commerce building in Washington DC destroyed a substantial […]

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Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

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One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage license, bond, and certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of […]

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Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

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Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

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One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage license, bond, and certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of […]

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Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

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One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage license, bond, and certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of […]

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One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage license, bond, and certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of […]

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Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]