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Free download from Newspaper Archive: The Name Chain Worksheet

search strategies for all those articles where women don't get mentioned with their own names

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New and Updated collections at Ancestry
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#AncestryHour If this is your ancestor, you hit the jackpot because the Declaration of Intention has the Irish town of origin on it.

Historical linguists love data like this too (think about how Sayers and Sears would have been pronounced).

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In other news: why has my Windows 11 computer stopped shwoing me the correct time on the taskbar? So annoying.

#AncestryHour In my #genealogy toolkit: Evidentia 4

It'll be so much fun to explore the new features.
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#AncestryHour In my email inbox: a notification from Pocketmags that a new issue of Family Tree (UK) has arrived.

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Looking through some local court records for one of my study places, and I found this letter tipped in to the court's Petitions for Naturalization.
Arrival surname and first naturalizaton: Sayers
New surname and replacement certificate: Sears

Greetings #AncestryHour friends! How's your genealogy research going this week?

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#ancestryhour been digging deep this week into all the cemetery photographs I took in Scotland, trying to join dots. I conclude thst there are too many William Calders in Scotland 😅

#AncestryHour One county history, found via Full Text Search at FamilySearch, was restricted for downloading, but I got a full copy of the book via the Internet Archive.

Tip: use printed sources & build a list of surnames in the area before tackling hard-to-read handwritten sources.

Hi, #AncestryHour friends! Any new #genealogy discoveries this week?

I'm still reviewing old research. One will had a reference to property being passed down (a few acres and a barn) so that's on my list to follow up. Town & County histories have maps; the LoC has atlases. #Vermont

I highly recommend this course in advanced sources for #IrishGenealogy with Seán Murphy:

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A History of the Census Takers has arrived. #Ancestry #Genealogy #ancestryhour #GenHour

Including the (possible apparent) mis-transcription in the index, her last name could be spelled: Zavodnik/Zavodnick/Savodnik/Savodnick/Zadovnick/Zadovnik w/ a chance that any of those o's could be a's. Should I include all of these alternate spellings or just use the index info?

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...with the info that the Ancestry birth index provided & nothing else? By the way, the index & notice said my GM's name was Molly ZADOVNICK. The notice states that they couldn't find her birth cert w/ the including info of her father's name as Isadore SAVADNICK....

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...(though I suspect there was either a spelling error on my part or a typing error on theirs (I'm not sure which b/c I forgot to take a picture of the form before I sent it)) for the father's last name) & the borough of birth. So are you saying that I should just resend it...

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#AncestryHour Hi Meryl. Thanks. I'm sorry I didn't make it clear in my initial post but actually, I did do that with my initial request. Well, I used the spelling of my GM, her birthdate, and the certificate number from the Ancestry birth index ... along with both of her parents' names...

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For those who've done NYC genealogy, can I use multiple spellings on the alternate info page or will they only accept one spelling variation in the specific box (like the birth name box, father's name box, etc.)? @waybackgen.bsky.social do you know the answer? Thanks!

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Hi #AncestryHour. On Saturday, I received a notice from NYC stating that they couldn't find my mat GM's birth certificate based on the info I gave them & a second page to give them alternate info for them to try again for free.

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