Articles by Paul Rawlins
Are Muster Rolls New to You, Too?
I’ve been waiting to get a look at the Alabama Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861–1865. Not because I have family from Alabama—most of my Southern relatives had headed west a generation or two earlier—but because I didn’t have a good handle on what muster rolls contained. I knew they were lists of soldiers and their… Read more
CA Mortality Schedules—A Look at the Local
“All politics is local” was a favorite saying of former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. A quick look at the 1850 U.S. Federal Census mortality schedules for California leaves me thinking all history might be local, too. Mortality schedules for California and Maine went live on Ancestry.com this week, and as I browsed through… Read more
Time for a Second Look? — Improved 1920 Census Now Online
The U.S. censuses are by far the most popular documents we have online, so recently, Ancestry.com has worked hard to improve the images, indexes, and search functionality for the U.S. censuses. The latest installment, the improved 1920 census, is now spiffed up and ready to go. We now have new digital images, which means better… Read more
My Little Black Book
I’m not a descendant of any of the “habitual drunkards” on the Birmingham Pub Black List just released on Ancestry.com—at least so far as I know. My family began leaving Europe in the 1700s and were pretty much done with the old country well before the turn of the 20th century. Even so, when a… Read more
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