I have always heard that no records were created at Ellis Island, that the only records used were the passenger lists created by the ship company, and that Ellis Island officials merely inspected immigrants and marked the manifests. In my recent research, in preparation for a presentation, I uncovered multiple sources suggesting that this statement was not entirely true.
read moreI can’t believe three years have already passed since the release of the 1921 UK Census! These records were recently released on Ancestry.com!
Just like the 1911 Census, the census used a separate sheet for each household. The head of the household was required to fill out the form and members of the household were required by law to either give the head …
read moreI was recently working on a project and I came across baptism records that had multiple symbols. At first, I didn’t pay much attention, but the one for Jacob caught my eye because under Jacob’s name, there was the symbol for Venus ♀, which is typically used as a symbol for females. I looked through the pages, and each name had a symbol under …
read moreI recently saw one of my ancestor’s signatures from 1874. The image below shows his surname. Can you figure it out? It is a very common German surname. Had I not known what it was, I never would have figured it out.
read moreOver the last few years I have found a new love: county record offices. County records are an underutilized tool for English genealogical research, possibly because of the cost of the records or lack of knowledge on how to find these offline records.
Genealogical research in England can be fairly straightforward, except for when it is not. Many researchers use census records, church records, probate …
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