Helping the present understand the past
It’s another Monday and time for another post. Today, we’re continuing our recent discussion on census records, today we’re looking at the 1900 census. The 1900 census was enumerated beginning 1 June 1900. Let’s look at the actual census record to see what information can be extracted from this census. Using my great-grandpa Edward’s census…
The last three weeks we’ve talked about birth, marriage and death records. These three types of vital records are the records most genealogists think about when you say the words “vital records”. But there’s a fourth type of vital record that isn’t immediately thought of: divorce records. Obviously divorce records aren’t going to exist for…
Last week we talked a little bit about genealogy basics and how to get started. In that post I touched on some different records available for genealogical use. The next few posts are going to discuss what those records are and what information can be extracted from them. The first records we talked about were…