Archive for the ‘Looking for clues’ Category
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Dig up the church records – Part 2
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
OK, so in the last post on church records, we talked about how to figure out what religious affiliation your ancestors may have had. I hope you have dug something up. Now that you have figured out their religion keep the following in mind. A lot of the religious groups kept pretty extensive records; others [...]
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Dig up the church records – Part 1
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Were you ancestors a religious bunch? If so, we can thank the churches for providing us many clues to who these people were. You can find many rich clues here. Births, Christenings, Marriages, Deaths, Burials in the church cemetery. You may find your ancestors held positions in the church or maybe they donated land to [...]
