The National Archives recently announced the third in a series of online finding aid tools: the Donated Collection Explorer. Rather than me trying to explain it, please go to the link above. As of September 2023, there are 845,435 scans from Donated Collections online representing 3.1% of the estimated total number of 27,266,434 estimated total textual pages. Yes, they have a ways […]
Category: Miscellaneous
Whether you search online, or offline at libraries, courthouses, or archives, many times our ancestors can be elusive. Sometimes they just cannot be found. Whether it be a birth date, census entry, or death date – or anything else of interest to us – we just can’t seem to “score.” There are lots of reasons […]
Non-population schedules were schedules that were created as an adjunct to the “normal” population census” that was gathered every ten years and still is. Essentially they were gathered to obtain information on special subsets of the population for the government to determine what resources needed to be applied to these special subsets and to obtain […]
Here is the Greatest Hits Album for The Ancestor Hunt for this previous quarter of 2023. There are two sides (A Side and B Side), each with 8 Tracks (posts), along with 8 Bonus Tracks (pages). These are the most popular of the hundreds of posts published by The Ancestor Hunt over these last 3 […]
School yearbooks, immortalize how we looked and what we did in high school or college. Whether we looked goofy or cool, that photo is there forever. And they document what clubs, sports, or other activities we were involved in. And for our ancestors, too! There is a significant amount of genealogy information that can be […]
This is a guest article from Trace with some introductory material regarding DNA and Genealogy. They are offering a 20% discount for The Ancestor Hunt subscribers for an outstanding detailed webinar training course all about DNA and Genealogy. Just click on THIS LINK and enter the Coupon Code: AHSPRING23. The coupon will be valid 3/1 – 3/20 and […]
To access online Social Security information regarding application (SS-5 form) data, death, and claim forms, you use the online NUMIDENT database. What’s a NUMIDENT you might ask? It is short for the Social Security Administration’s Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT). There are three types of entries in NUMIDENT: death, application (SS-5), and claim records. For those […]
The Library of Congress Digital Collections are large and growing. Currently, there are over 1,000 unique collections. You should definitely incorporate this massive set of collections into your genealogy research. They are divided into 15 different topics (the number of collections is in brackets): You can see all the specific collections by selecting a topic. […]
[UPDATED] – 14,625 total Named Victorian-era photos are now in their database, and the price has been reduced by 60%!] Recently I became aware of a new website – “Ancestor Photos” Essentially, it provides scanned copies of Victorian-era photographs. The database numbers in the thousands and includes (from the website): “We provide a unique opportunity […]
As genealogists and historians, we strive to know more about our ancestors and other subject people. It is imperative, especially as family historians that we research and understand the locales, surroundings, and events that occurred during their lifetimes. While we constantly look for new records, we must also research history, including local history. There are […]
