Focus, focus, focus. That is my mantra for ancestor searchers. Pick one of your grandparents, calculate when they were born, and think about where they were living in 1950 – the latest census available to us. Enter that information into Ancestry.com. One new quirk on Ancestry: you need to click the “Exact” box under the …
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Nov 07 2017
Millennials
Genealogists are often seen as older people who are familiar with history and use records that end with the 1940 census. When a Millennial, someone born between the early 1980s and 1995, comes to us and asks us to ‘find their family,’ we may not have the answer. Millennials born in 1982 are 35 years …
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