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Archive for 'Family Tree Fridays'Family Tree Friday: Census Bureau exhibit at the 1926 U.S. Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Part IToday’s post comes from guest blogger Doug Remley, who is a student research room technician in Research Services (RD-DC) at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Doug offers a history lesson on how the Census Bureau celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Future posts will include some of the unique findings [...] Posted by John on August 31, 2012, under Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Research. Family Tree Friday: War of 1812 certificates of dischargeIn this post I’d like to highlight a particular set of records that probably don’t get as much attention as they deserve: certificates of discharge for Regular Army soldiers from the War of 1812. The most likely reason for the slight attention these wonderful records receive is likely the fact that only a small portion [...] Posted by John on August 10, 2012, under Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Research. Family Tree Friday: War of 1812 Pension Files OnlineJune 18, 2012–the anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain–marked the official start of the bicentennial of the War of 1812. To help celebrate that anniversary and bring attention to one of America’s lesser known conflicts, let’s take a look at some of the records of that war, starting with an essential [...] Posted by John on July 6, 2012, under Digitization, Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Online Research, Research, Veterans / Military. Family Tree Friday: More 1940 Census Workshop SessionsDue to popular demand, we’re offering additional 1940 Census workshops at the National Archives Building in DC next week. Join us every day at 3 pm in Room G-25. We’ll discuss various ways you can get started with the 1940 Census. Each session will be approximately 30 minutes long. Monday April 9 3:00 pm: Tips [...] Posted by Katherine on April 6, 2012, under 1940 Census, DC-area Researchers, Family Tree Fridays. Family Tree Friday: Interesting facts about the 1940 CensusHere is another entry from guest blogger Diane Petro, Archives Technician in the Archives I Research Support Branch (RD-DC), Research Services, Archival Operations – Washington, DC. Diane helps staff the research rooms at the National Archives Building and has also been working on reference activities relating to the upcoming 1940 Census release. Time is moving [...] Posted by John on February 3, 2012, under 1940 Census, Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Research. Family Tree Friday: The 1940 Census and Social SecurityWith the growing hype surrounding the upcoming release of the 1940 Census, it has come to the attention of Archives staff that some misinformation may be starting to appear regarding what type of information you will find in the census and how it will be searchable. One such tidbit that recently showed up online alleged [...] Posted by John on January 20, 2012, under 1940 Census, Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Research. Family Tree Friday: The 1940 Census–Were You at Work (Part 2)This week’s post comes once again from guest blogger Diane Petro, who is an Archives Technician in the Archives I Research Support Branch (RD-DC), Research Services, Archival Operations – Washington, DC. Diane helps staff the research rooms at the National Archives Building and has also been working on reference activities relating to the upcoming 1940 [...] Posted by John on December 16, 2011, under 1940 Census, Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Miscellaneous, Research. Family Tree Friday: Land records (Part 2) – Eastern vs. Western public land statesNow that we established the difference between Public and Private Land States in my previous post, let’s take a look at the different search paths to locate information about Public Land patents. The main point to discern is whether you are dealing with an Eastern or Western public land state, because the relevant records are [...] Posted by John on December 2, 2011, under Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Research. Family Tree Friday: 1940 Census – Following the instructions (of the enumerators!)This week’s blog post comes once again from guest blogger Diane Petro, Archives Technician in the Research Support Branch at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Diane is working on reference activities relating to the upcoming 1940 census release. Researchers often go to the Instructions to the Enumerator when trying to interpret a question [...] Posted by John on November 18, 2011, under 1940 Census, Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Online Research, Research. Family Tree Friday: Land records – knowing Public from PrivateIn a previous blog post I mentioned how veterans could acquire homesteads via bounty land warrants they received as a benefit for military service. Since then, I’ve been thinking it would be worthwhile to offer some general advice about land records at the National Archives, and more importantly to explain the distinction between public and private [...] Posted by John on October 28, 2011, under Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Online Research, Research. |
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