As an oft-times genealogical researcher, I was thrilled when the 1940 census was released. The actual records themselves showed up online in a remarkably rapid fashion, but the indexes take much longer. Ancestry.com has helpfully provided three ways to access these records until those indexes are available. [Note: Delaware and Nevada census indexes for 1940 are already … [Read more...] about Digging up 1940 relatives
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Winter Brain Finds Many Excuses
Winter brain has gotten me. I am so not in the mood to work on my work-in-progress, Revival. I'm not sure what prompted it, but I was suddenly seized by a long-dormant desire to research my family tree. See, I was bitten by the genealogy bug years and years ago. My first published work was in Genealogical Helper, on using computers in genealogy. My research even inspired my … [Read more...] about Winter Brain Finds Many Excuses