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genealogy
I recently completed an online heraldry class conducted by the University of Strathclyde, and I learned a great deal that will be helpful to me as a genealogy librarian.
Insurance companies have long provided policies to cover losses of property but, before the end of the Civil War, this also included pay-outs for injury and death of slaves.
City Directories are wolves in sheep’s clothing. You think you’re cracking open a boring ole phone book but, when you look closer, you'll find loads of clandestine information that phone books are missing. Sorted alphabetically by last name, these (often-) annual tomes feature not jus
To the bane of many genealogists, the eleventh census of the United States was heavily damaged by a fire at the Commerce Department in 1921. Less than one percent of it survived, which means we have census data (e.g.
My grandmother was born June Eileen Lavonne Nystrom and her husband called her Patty. I know this because my mom told me, and my mom knows this because her mom told her.
![[photo of great grandmother]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2014-08/lucy.jpg?itok=EeJcBY6Y "Is this woman related to the King of Sweden?")
Am I related to anyone famous?
What is my ethnic background?
How far back can I go? 1800s? 1600s? Adam and Eve?!