A search on a local genealogy society website uncovered a burial record for an infant in 1908. No given name, so I knew the child, if not st...

My maternal grandmother, Myrtle Vanevery Deutsch, had her sister sign an affidavit of birth for her twice. In 1942, and again in 1945. In 19...

Today is World Cancer Day, so I thought it would be a good day to post this annual PSA. This is now the fourth year I've posted this PS...

This week, for Follow Friday, I'd like to recommend another indexing project similar to the two I mentioned last week, though this one w...

Below is the death certificate of my second great grandfather, Moshe Leyb (aka Morris Louis) Cruvant.  I referred to it in the notes of my M...

Back in July of 2008 I discovered the FBI file of my great uncle, Samuel Van Every.  (He also, occasionally, went by the name Stanford Van ...

This week the resource I'd like to highlight is Jackson County Missouri's Marriage Database .  Jackson is the second largest county ...

This entry has been percolating in my mind for a few weeks. In the first episode of Who Do You Think They Are viewers were shown that it i...

I've mentioned Everett before...most recently in my post on Orphans ...but my information on him has become a little more confused. He ...

Looking over the notes a cousin had made in her research on a 19th century date of death, I saw a Hebrew date (Adar 18) and civil date (Feb...

Week 15. List some vital signs. Talk about specific birth, marriage and death certificates. Topics may include misspelled names, fudged dat...

FamilySearch has been indexing their images for the Cook County Birth Reports (1878-1922) (Currently input through 1915) Below is the Birt...

I've blogged about this before, but I've decided to make an annual habit of it. It can't be repeated too often. Genealogy can ...

Minnesota marriage database with ability to order certificates online. Dates indexed vary by county . Some go back to the 1870s, and some...

The topic for the 57th Carnival of Genealogy is: I read it in the news! Newspapers can be a wonderful source of family history information. ...

When you get most of your news online, like I do, it's easy to miss a local story. Thankfully David at OakvilleBlackWalnut blogged abou...

Steve Morse on his website has added a Cook County One-Step for searching Cook County's new Vital Records. There are two big improvemen...

Inspired by a comment in the prior post, here's a list of Vital Records and related databases/indexes I know about for the state of Miss...

Cook County's (Chicago's) Vital Records! They're here! They're here! These are indexes - you still have to order the certifi...

Two months ago, exactly, I was blogging about my impatience I was concerned because it was January 7th, 2008, and the Missouri Death Certifi...