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Friday, July 25, 2025

SNGF on July 19 Took Me Down a Rabbit Hole Searching for Abel Armitage

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Randy Seaver offered a fun activity (fun and easy, depending on the ancestor) for last week's  Saturday Night Genealogy Fun  (SNGF) on J...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Finding Red House Farm in Steubenville Township, Jefferson County, Ohio + What You May Find on a Historic County Map

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Being curious about the location of the property Robert Nelson sold the coal under in 1869 and first purchased in 1858, I contacted the Gene...
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Saturday, July 19, 2025

1858 Deed of Purchase - Robert Nelson from Matthew Nicholson

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When I find that an ancestor has sold property (or the coal under the property, as Robert Nelson did) I want to learn when he bought the pro...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Population Through the Decades at Population.us

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Edited to add:  I found this site by searching for a city and state + population on Google and it was one of the results.  When I went back ...
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Monday, July 7, 2025

FamilySearch's Full-Text Search Finds Robert Nelson in Others' Estate Files

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You just never know what records will turn up when you search for an ancestor using  FamilySearch's Full-Text Search .  Will there be bi...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Did My Grandparents Know Their Grandparents?

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This week Randy hit on a topic for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun  that is always of interest to me:  who knew whom and whose lives overlapped...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

1869 Deed of Sale: Robert Nelson, Sr., and Jane C. Nelson to John Fisher, Sr.

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I'm pleased to have found an 1869 deed that names Robert Nelson and and identifies his wife as Jane C. Nelson.  This deed is in Deed Rec...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Tip for Using FreeReg to Search for Birth and Death Dates

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FreeReg is an index to church parish registers in the British Isles.  It's a great resource for finding baptisms, marriages, and burial...