Comments on: More U.S. Public Records = More Ancestry Hints

By: BEE

BEE — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:25:32 +0000

Not sure where to report this, but the WWI Draft Registration cards for Brooklyn, Kings, NY don’t match up with the names.
How many more months/years before the PA WWII Draft Registration cards are straightened out?

By: E. Erickson

E. Erickson — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:56:05 +0000

#26,#31 & #33
Baker
I am researching Baker’s and am not finding pertinet information ie Dbirth, death and marriages. Some people just seem to pop up then vanish into thin air. Very frustrating.
Help.

By: Monika

Monika — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:45:18 +0000

#32 – Thank you for sharing details about your personality with us! We really cared to know, which is why we visit this blog regularly!

By: Baker

Baker — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:24:49 +0000

@31 Heather, thank you for responding. g’day.

By: Elle Litist

Elle Litist — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:17:54 +0000

#30

A tween brain in cat ladies body is tragic.

By: Heather Erickson

Heather Erickson — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:37:54 +0000

@Baker (#26)

Nothing can truly replace the destroyed 1890 census – it had unique information, but there are record sources such as city directories that provide some of the information that the 1890 census contained. Ancestry.com has compiled a collection of many city directories (and other relevant sources) from the 1890 period. http://search.ancestry.com/group/1890census/1890+Census+Substitute.aspx

The National Archives microfilmed the 1890 census population schedules that survive and they also microfilmed schedules taken during the 1890 census of veterans. The veteran schedules still exist for about half of the country. Ancestry.com has online digital images of all of the surviving 1890 population schedules http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5445 and the veterans schedules http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8667.

All states have an official state archives or historical society or library that preserves the permanently valuable state government records. Ancestry.com works with those states to digitized records of genealogical value and indexed images of those records are added to Ancestry.com as they become available.

I hope this helps! Good luck with your family history research.

By: Monika

Monika — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:19:38 +0000

#29

By: Elle Litist

Elle Litist — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:24:49 +0000

#28 Your typos, ever your grammar can be forgiven, but please refrain from using emoticons in your posts, how old are you, 12?

By: Monika

Monika — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:35:15 +0000

…and I want them to add a “spell-check” button to the blog! I am tired of seeing all my typos after the fact! For the reader: I am European born. English is my second language. So forgive the sometimes convoluted language. Seeing the English sentences of some Amercan born on these blogs, I still feel that I am not doing too bad!

By: Monika

Monika — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:32:03 +0000

#25 – Well, Andy, it may look like we are talking “past” each other. But, we are both saying the same thing! That is exactly what I want too! I want them to change ONLY transcription errors, AFTER verifictation. I would like to think that anyone who reads what I describe in #24, can understand my frustration! I am not trying to change other people’s trees, nor “control” other people’s trees. I don’t know where in what I said you read that. But, when you start tempering with birth dates on a census record, via “alternative dates” varying from 1864 to 1892, when the original data shows it to be consistently 1870, you are not helping any body. And, once again, I would not even have noticed, if that person had not “member.connected” himself to my tree. That’s why I was curious to know how complicated it would be to have an “opt out” program to allow members to “opt out” of member.connect. That way every body could be happy those who want it can have it and those who do not want it do not have to have it imposed on them. The way I see it, the data of these connections is and remains on ancestry.com. If I want to go looking for it, I know how to press the “search” button.