Web Sightings: New Jersey Civil War Gravestones
This is the first post in what I intend to be a continuing series I am calling “Web Sightings“, highlighting websites I use in my own research. New Jersey Civil War Gravestones [link] is an online...
View ArticleDigital Organization and File Naming Conventions
Last week I returned from a genealogical research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The result of my three days of research was more than one hundred digital images of...
View ArticleFrom Deed to Plat Map, Part 1
Creating a Plat Map from a Metes and Bounds Land Description: A New Jersey Example. Part 1 discusses the preparatory work involved prior to the actual drawing of the plat map. LAND. It was the...
View ArticleFrom Deed to Plat Map, Part 2
Creating a Plat Map from a Metes and Bounds Land Description: A New Jersey Example. Part 2 demonstrates the platting of a parcel using a free online tool In part one of this two-part post, I created a...
View ArticleEstablishing a Death Date for Charles Carson
Carson Family Group Sheet (Pt. 4) Fourth in an ongoing series that attempts to document the early days of my research on the Carson family of New Jersey as it originally unfolded. In this installment...
View ArticleDeedMapper Deed Entry Form
How to force the DeedMapper software program to display the Deed Entry Form every time a new deed is entered. I received and installed the DeedMapper 4.2 upgrade about two weeks ago and immediately...
View ArticleCensus Comparison Worksheet
It has been some time since I posted about the Charles and Caroline Carson family of New Jersey. I needed to remind myself where I left off with respect to the census information I had collected thus...
View ArticleAnother Cousin Connection, and Two Wills
Carson Family Group Sheet (Pt. 5.) This fifth installment in a series brings the story up to the mid-2003 time frame when I was first corresponding with two other descendants of Charles and Caroline...
View ArticleProof, in the Form of a Letter
A cousin shares a Civil War letter that confirms the death of my ancestor, Charles Carson, in 1863 Many of the men in our extended Carson family enlisted when called to defend the Union in the Civil...
View Article1820 Cranberry, New Jersey Census Substitute
There are no extant United States Federal census population schedules for the state of New Jersey prior to 1830.1 Therefore, any surviving list of inhabitants before that time will be a welcome...
View ArticleCensus Comparison Worksheet Revisited
Some time ago, I revised an Excel census comparison worksheet created by another genealogy blogger and provided an example of its use on this site. I have had enough requests for a blank copy of my...
View ArticleCaroline Carson: A Contented Old Woman
A 1914 newspaper account of the life of Mrs. Caroline Carson, an 84-year-old resident of Chambersburg, New Jersey for fifty years. As genealogists, we search tirelessly for records for our ancestors...
View ArticleMueller, Mills & a New Approach to Pension File Transcriptions
Inspiration often strikes when and where you least expect it. I was reading part of the redacted Mueller Report earlier this week when I had an epiphany, inspired by Appendix B of the report, the...
View Article2019 New Jersey Research Trip: Newark
The New Jersey Historical Society in Newark holds the trial notes for an ongoing New Jersey court case that started in 1844 that may involve this researcher’s ancestors. Time for a research trip. New...
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