What do you do when you’ve looked for a deed in all the usual places – county property appraisers office, FamilySearch.org or other online database of deed records, and even probate files but you come up with nothing? I was fortunate to find deed records in an unlikely place and you just might find this … Continue reading “An Unusual Source to Find a Deed”
Looked at the calendar this morning and realized this will be my last Genealogy At Heart post for 2021! I will be taking a hiatus due to the holidays for the next 2 weeks. Hoping you have a delightful time – enjoy, reminisce, and stay safe. 10 Fantastic Photos! MyHeritage Does it Again! 9 Resolving … Continue reading “GenealogyAtHeart’s Top 10 Posts of 2021”
This has been an unusual week for me. In August 2017 I emailed someone on Ancestry asking how they were related as the individual had no online tree. I suggested the match was for a particular surname. This week, I got a reply. Yes, it was over 4 years after I sent the initial inquiry. … Continue reading “Welcome, Cuz – NPE Results in a Newly Found Relative”
Genealogist purists do not like using indexes. I ‘m glad I’m not a purist as I recently found an interesting record by accident while using an index. Monthly, I get an email from Familysearch.org with updates about the site. I always check out the section that lists the newly available online records. I find this … Continue reading “Using an Index to Find What I Didn’t Know Existed”
Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 18 Nov 2015. Last weekend I had the pleasure of researching at the New England Historic and Genealogical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. If you’re planning a first visit, here’s some tips I found useful: The library is SMALL but filled with tremendous resources that you might not find anywhere else. … Continue reading “Visiting the New England Historic and Genealogical Society”
I had just returned from traveling to Croatia in April when I received the email below: Hello, My name is [ ]. I am a Family History consultant. For a few years I have been trying to find the parentage of Joseph Emory DeLong 1814, married to Caroline Patterson about 1844 in Portage, Livingston New … Continue reading “Creepy October – A Website Connection”
Like me, you probably have spent years searching for a document to prove an identity or relationship. Perhaps you were looking for proof of where an individual lived between census years. Maybe you are trying to pinpoint when a family relocated to another area. You’ve searched high and low and after checking the regular recommendations, … Continue reading “When Your Genealogical Wishes Come True”
I finally found the tombstone of my 3rd great-grandfather, John Duer, in Kessler Cemetery, Mercer County, Ohio! Last Saturday my husband suggested we drive to Ohio to check out the cemetery in the hopes of finding John’s gravestone. I’ve blogged many times in the past about my Duer family and the frustration of not being … Continue reading “Finding John Duer’s Burial Site”
With the extra hour you gain from this weekend’s time change, Genealogy At Heart has a 2-for-1 special today! As I conclude my synchronicity series I’ll be reviewing two books that are filled with genealogical coincidences. The first blog will cover Henry “Hank” Z. Jones, Jr.’s Psychic Roots: Serendipity & Intuition in Genealogy (Baltimore: Genealogical … Continue reading “Psychic Roots Book Review”
