Tag: family research

How I Solved It: Western State Lunatic Asylum and Martha Saul

Nancy Loe, blog author from the website Sassy Jane Genealogy, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog highlights the importance of searching places you maybe don’t want to look at such as like asylums, prisons, workhouses, etc.

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How I Solved It: Family Mystery Solved! Two Lost Boys Found

DiAnn Iamarino Ohama, blog author from the website Family Tree Advice, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog solves the mystery through wondering what happened to her Italian family that traveled back and forth between the US and Italy and apparently left behind two children born in the US….

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How I Solved It: A Family Court Dispute Found in Google Books

Patricia Greber, blog author from the website My Genealogy Life, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog explains how she conducted a Google Book search which brings up snippets of information on an ancestor. The snippets provide enough information to hire a researcher to look at the original…

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How I Solved It: Genealogy, Free or Fee: Search for Clues in Family Hands

Marian Wood, blog author from the website Climbing My Family Tree, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. This blog reviews a “Genealogy Go-Over” and is a follow-up to our post earlier this week also from Marian Wood. It involves another find that is helped by the address book and…

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Introducing the “How I Solved It” Series

We’re excited to announce a new theme for our blog: “How I Solved It“. Each week we’ll share curated guest posts from bloggers from around the web that we’ve handpicked just to share with you as well as stories from our own personal genealogy adventures. These blog posts will highlight sound research methodology and techniques…

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How I Solved It: Finding Lurancy

Chris Child, blog author and longtime member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing “How I Solved It Series”. Thanks to Reclaim the Records, Chris was able to finally track down the death certificate of an ancestor. Using multiple resources including Ancestry and Family Search, plus emailing…

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