https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2015/09/copy-that.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: Copy That?
In cop lingo, someone saying "copy" is basically agreeing: "I got that." In other words, what you said is what I heard. Check. Or, as one r...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-parallax-of-previous-centuries.html
A Family Tapestry: The Parallax of Previous Centuries
Can our viewpoint of history be distorted over the centuries by a form of parallax? That is what I wondered this week as I pondered the st...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/12/searching-for-patterns.html
A Family Tapestry: Searching for Patterns
Delving into the nitty-gritty on a surname from a small family has its research benefits: there are relatively few possibilities to sort t...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/01/ancestor-11-asking-about-aktabowskis.html
A Family Tapestry: Ancestor #11: Asking About Aktabowskis
I'm sure many of us who pursue our family history get those questions, "Are we related to...?" As far as my brother's experience goes, I t...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/06/which-way-did-they-go.html
A Family Tapestry: Which Way Did They Go?
Is it just me, or is it not unusual to have a founding immigrant ancestor's life documents appear in one location while his point of arriv...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/07/first-good-news.html
A Family Tapestry: First, the Good News
It was rather deflating, after finally finding someone who qualified as an exact match to my mitochondrial DNA test, to realize that eithe...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/04/
A Family Tapestry: April 2024
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-other-john-tully.html
A Family Tapestry: The Other John Tully
If I could have made the title of this post clearer, I would have labeled it "The Other Other John Tully." You see, like Margaret, John s...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/08/what-makes-you-wonder.html
A Family Tapestry: What Makes You Wonder?
Wonder is a key necessity for those wanting to discover their family history. So much more than simply building a family tree, or "doing g...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/10/learning-by-osmosis.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: Learning by Osmosis
How does one go about learning something new, when there is no handy pre-fab class developed to hand the hapless researcher everything-you...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/05/quarantine-numbers.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: Quarantine Numbers
As we slide into another murky quarantine week, things begin to look all the same. That nervous habit of returning, during a day's dull mom...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2025/05/?m=0
A Family Tapestry: May 2025
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/08/according-to-his-will.html
A Family Tapestry: According to his Will
It is probably a good thing that the will of Benjamen Bartlett was drawn up in 1717 , after his daughter Ruth had already married. One simp...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-tree-for-genia.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: A Tree for Genia
Sometimes, it is all we can do to record our own family history, let alone delve into the intricacies of anyone else's tree. But there are...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2013/03/see-if-this-sounds-familiar.html
A Family Tapestry: See If This Sounds Familiar
Though Samuel Bean was deprived of both hearing and sight following an unexpected injury in childhood, every report of him during his hig...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2022/03/indexing-re-invented.html
A Family Tapestry: Indexing Re-Invented
For the longest time, I set aside a regular time to volunteer as an indexer to make the digitized records at FamilySearch computer-searcha...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/01/into-more-familiar-territory.html
A Family Tapestry: Into More Familiar Territory
As the calendar winds down to the last few days of January, we're doing the same with this month's research project: wrapping up what we c...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/05/names-that-belong-together.html
A Family Tapestry: Names That Belong Together
Why is it that some names always seem to be paired with specific other names? Is Romeo just coupled with Juliet in the play? Or are real li...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/12/why-we-need-memories.html
A Family Tapestry: Why we Need Memories
Five days before I got the phone call, my older sister most likely had her deceased husband on her mind. As she has done every year since h...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/06/minding-many-metzgers.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Minding Many Metzgers
Focusing on one ancestral surname plus adding DNA matches to the search can mean lots of research progress for a month's results. As usual...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/07/?m=0
A Family Tapestry: July 2024
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/01/keeping-track-of-new-year.html
A Family Tapestry: Keeping Track of a New Year
It's the start of a new year, which means it's the start of a new tracking form for research progress. It may not seem like much, but I fin...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2016/05/
A Family Tapestry: May 2016
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/09/tracing-another-falvey.html
A Family Tapestry: Tracing Another Falvey
I'm beginning to wish it was customary to list cousins among the survivors in a family member's obituary. Not only would that, for instanc...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/03/looking-for-comfort.html
A Family Tapestry: Looking for Comfort
In our quest to better determine the full identity of Elizabeth Howard, wife of William Ijams, we need some powerful tools to help us pres...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/10/polish-heritage-strictly-kept-secret.html
A Family Tapestry: Polish Heritage: A Strictly-Kept Secret
Genealogy can sometimes be so serendipitous. Here we are at the beginning of October, the month I had slated in my Twelve Most Wanted plan...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-d-n-holiday-sales-bubble.html
A Family Tapestry: The D N A Holiday Sales Bubble
Every winter, the holiday DNA sales result in a slight bubble of matches trailing through the months of January and February, due to the w...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/11/where-simon-says-he-is.html
A Family Tapestry: Where Simon Says He Is
When self-published family histories all seem to be screaming different details as fact which couldn't possibly co-exist with the others, t...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2021/04/about-anthony.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: About Anthony
It certainly helps to locate a will of an ancestor, especially if it enables us to discover the full mention of names in that family. Unli...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-rest-of-ralphs-story.html
A Family Tapestry: The Rest of Ralph's Story
In trying to learn about this young man portrayed in an abandoned photograph I found , figuring out who Ralph Pollock's parents were may h...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/10/seeing-double.html
A Family Tapestry: Seeing Double
While tools and techniques may be handy for getting a job done, sometimes tools need to be recalibrated and techniques need to be revised....
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/03/taking-peek-behind-scene.html
A Family Tapestry: Taking a Peek Behind the Scene
There is a lot of guesswork involved in returning an orphaned photograph back to family. And, in juggling the information attached to multi...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/10/meanwhile-from-half-world-away.html
A Family Tapestry: Meanwhile, From Half a World Away . . .
Why do genealogy television shows resonate with their audiences? More to the point, why is it that greater numbers of people show up to rea...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2014/08/always-worth-try.html
A Family Tapestry: Always Worth a Try
Now supplied with that solitary tidbit linking the athletic and accomplished Denver man-about-town, Harry A. Sullivan, with Julia C. Sull...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2012/04/thanks-from-rough-rider.html
A Family Tapestry: Thanks From a Rough Rider
If the saying is on target, everyone will, at some point, experience his or her fifteen minutes of fame . Better to be prepared before one...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/10/following-immigrant-trail.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: Following the Immigrant Trail
We've arrived! We, the newbie arrivals in the genealogical world of research into our distant New Zealand cousins, that is. We're ready to...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/04/photo-updates.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Photo Updates
The verdict is in: yes! Ralph is going home, too. Well, I mean his photo, that is. I heard from the Pollock descendant who gave me all tha...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/04/when-friends-become-family.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: When Friends Become Family
Although Dr. Ozey Broyles had become friends with his neighbor, the distinguished Samuel Maverick, the elder man was at least twenty years ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/04/finding-females-before-fifties.html
A Family Tapestry: Finding Females Before the Fifties
Since I realize that caving to the allure of alliteration may leave me wide open to misinterpreted hits from spammers, let me clarify that...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2022/02/not-to-complicate-things-but.html
A Family Tapestry: Not to Complicate Things, But . . .
Trying to trace an ancestor through times and locations in which record-keeping was not, ah, shall we say a precise science can be frustra...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2012/11/looking-into-another-large-family.html
A Family Tapestry: Looking Into Another Large Family
One thing that has struck me, as I work through the details of the descendancy from my target First Families of Ohio pioneer, is that wit...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/10/research-rinse-repeat.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Research, Rinse, Repeat
If finding Aunt Rose's mother Anna in a website containing transcriptions of marriage records for the region of Pomerania was a research b...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/05/counting-progress-considering.html
A Family Tapestry: Counting Progress, Considering Possibilities
Another month, another opportunity to count progress. While the numbers always seem to point onward and upward, family history research is ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-date-but-no-name.html
A Family Tapestry: A Date, but No Name
Is it possible to find a record on a family member if all we know is just a date , but not an exact name? It can be, depending on the circ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2015/09/on-trail-of-mcclellans.html
A Family Tapestry: On the Trail of the McClellans
Do you ever check census records for the addresses of your relatives of bygone generations so that you can go visit the homes where they on...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-dna-detour.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: A DNA Detour
It's almost April 25. Have you checked out your latest National DNA Day sales offers? Lately, in that ever-present chase to find more co...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/01/bride-park-not-just-kennel.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: Bride Park: Not Just a Kennel
Page by page, that discarded family photo album I had found now started providing more clues. The more details spotted on previous pages, ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2012/10/spoke-too-soon.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Spoke Too Soon
While it is true that my qualification to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution lies with the history of one man n...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/10/
A Family Tapestry: October 2020
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2011/12/just-orphan-sailor.html
A Family Tapestry: Just An Orphan Sailor
Now that Frank Stevens has returned home to Chicago from his tour of duty in the south Pacific during World War II, and before we find o...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/03/searching-through-next-generation.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Searching Through the Next Generation
My hope for most weekends is for a time when I can set aside the usual routine and delve into the research problems that have me stumped. O...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-bit-about-bridget.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: A Bit About Bridget
Pursuing not one but three Falvey siblings in my quest to discover anything more about my husband's second great-grandmother, Johanna Fal...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/09/daniel-boone-was-here.html
A Family Tapestry: Daniel Boone Was Here
Oftentimes, I've run into beginning genealogical researchers who get jazzed at the thought their ancestors might be related to someone famo...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2013/08/?m=1
A Family Tapestry: August 2013
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/04/fear-of-dna.html
A Family Tapestry: Fear of DNA
If you pay any attention to the genealogy world, you've no doubt heard of the sales in celebration of what is dubbed National DNA Day. The ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/12/first-day-of-winter-doldrums.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: First-Day-of-Winter Doldrums
When the shortest day of the year begins to feel as if it were the longest day, it's time to find an antidote to my mood's doldrums. This i...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2011/06/figuring-out-those-flanagans.html
A Family Tapestry: Figuring Out Those Flanagans
So what about William Flanagan , Irishman, who got himself a very round trip from his homeland to Illinois via the far side of the world in ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/12/did-newspaper-get-it-wrong.html
A Family Tapestry: Did the Newspaper get it Wrong?
While returning to his home in Centerville, Kans., after visiting relatives in this city, John Blain was struck by a locomotive. He rece...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2025/12/testing-theory.html
A Family Tapestry: Testing the Theory
The theory seemed sound enough: pick a DNA match linked to the ancestor I'm researching this month, then filter the cousin's test results th...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2013/09/decrying-invisible-women.html
A Family Tapestry: Decrying Invisible Women
Consider this a post in which I go off on a tangent and harangue the centuries-old tendency to put women in a place so unobservable, so un...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2022/11/whats-your-question-about-your-ancestor.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: What's Your Question About Your Ancestor?
As you work through your family tree, does your mind bombard you with questions? Mine does. Perhaps all those mental detours are what make...
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A Family Tapestry: January 2014
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2014/01/flat-on-her-back.html
A Family Tapestry: Flat on Her Back
What an ordeal my grand-aunt, Lummie Davis Moore , was suffering after slipping on a splash of water at the Phoenix hotel she was visitin...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2025/10/not-many-people-talking-about-it.html
A Family Tapestry: Not Many People Talking About it
Research on Polish family history doesn't seem to be as popular as, say, pursuing Irish or Italian roots. It's certainly not as widespread...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/10/where-were-left-standing.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: Where We're Left Standing
It's been a long journey through all the DNA matches who share both roots in County Kerry, Ireland, and the family surname Falvey. After t...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2016/03/lesson-learned.html
A Family Tapestry: Lesson Learned?
While my recent project, preparing a presentation on Irish family history research, has inspired me to go back and review all my old record...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/11/holiday-afterglow.html
A Family Tapestry: Holiday Afterglow
I'm not sure I'm ready for this yet...but cue up the Christmas tunes, grab a peppermint mocha and a box of Christmas cards, and let the sea...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2013/01/cars-not-just-for-guys.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Cars: Not Just For the Guys
Throughout the history of automobiles in this country, the plethora of car photographs may have led some to believe this was just the focu...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/08/researcher-to-researcher-connections.html
A Family Tapestry: Researcher to Researcher Connections?
Since discussing, yesterday , about the sea change in genealogy gatherings, I got to thinking about what else has evolved over the decades ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/04/off-shelf-art-of-slow-reading.html
A Family Tapestry: Off the Shelf: The Art of Slow Reading
There is just something about the uncertainty of this quarantine season. It makes me antsy to not have my regular schedule. True confession...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/11/adding-clusters.html
A Family Tapestry: Adding Clusters
A little here ( at this website ), a little there ( at another website ), and pretty soon I'm adding clusters of relatives to the family t...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2021/12/glad-im-not-time-traveler.html
A Family Tapestry: Glad I'm Not a Time Traveler
It's been a busy season for me, coming out of pandemic isolation and back into the always-rush-hour world of inter-connectedness. In just ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/09/looking-for-real-charles-samuel-sullivan.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Looking for the Real Charles Samuel Sullivan
The trouble with common names is that, even in the same city, an ancestor can have a duplicate. Such was the case I encountered, once I go...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2025/12/some-roots-grow-deep.html
A Family Tapestry: Some Roots Grow Deep
Advancing to research plans for the fourth of my Twelve Most Wanted for 2026, I traditionally move from the three ancestors I selected fro...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-charming-family.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: A "Charming Family"
Why is it that, despite the unfolding of a horrific event, journalists can still paint the perpetrators with the most rose-colored word pic...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/04/side-by-side.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: Side by Side
In determining the correct identity of a couple whose photo was labeled only as "Mr. and Mrs. Albert Roberts," there aren't many easily fou...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/05/getting-back-to-job.html
A Family Tapestry: Getting Back to Job
It's been a long, winding trail since returning from my research trip to Florida last February. Since that point, a key focus has been the...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/08/double-checking-dates.html
A Family Tapestry: Double-checking Dates
If you are as cautious as I am about family history research, you may find yourself constantly double-checking the dates associated with t...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-we-cant-find-about-jim-tucker.html
A Family Tapestry: What We Can't Find About Jim Tucker
Reuniting abandoned century-old photographs with family is not that much of a challenge, as long as you know at least a few details about t...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/05/getting-back-on-track.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Getting Back on Track
Research goals can help keep us on track when we grapple with those all-too-frequent detours from the anticipated pedigree chart. Despite ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/12/seasons-sentiments.html
A Family Tapestry: Season's Sentiments
Christmas always calls to mind memories. It's a holiday I've always loved, and that awed childhood delight over this scintillating time of ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/09/these-are-not-sullivans-youre-looking.html
A Family Tapestry: These are Not the Sullivans You're Looking For
It would have been nice if I could find a maiden name for Mrs. Charles Samuel Sullivan, mother of the three young Sullivan nephews we foun...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/02/whose-cousins-were-those-two-cousins.html
A Family Tapestry: Whose Cousins Were Those Two Cousins?
Sometimes, notes added after the fact can help identify the faces in old family photographs. Other times, they only muddy the family tree. ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-last-will-becomes-family-tree-roadmap.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: A Last Will Becomes a Family Tree Roadmap
Though I don't write about it much, behind the scenes each week, I'm still working on the unfinished business of previous months' research...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2013/06/twins.html
A Family Tapestry: Twins?
Since last Saturday, when I had mentioned struggling with some family health issues, things had moved from crisis status to a more stable ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2017/10/day-six-now-comes-grunt-work.html
A Family Tapestry: Day Six: Now Comes the Grunt Work
Decisions, decisions...a day full of these can be wearying, indeed. Since I need some wiggle room before jumping in to fill that now-empt...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2024/02/it-all-began-with-man-named-abraham.html
A Family Tapestry: It All Began With a Man Named Abraham
The listing of grandchildren in wills may be what leads us to the truth about the wives of John Carter. Stumped by the one item in my fift...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2019/08/tracing-evas-family.html
A Family Tapestry: Tracing Eva's Family
If a person was fairly young at the time, yet experienced an untimely death in 1918, what would you think might be the cause? A date of d...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/06/muscle-memory-and-paper-chase.html
A Family Tapestry: Muscle Memory and the Paper Chase
I've often wondered why, when I first began my personal genealogical research, I could remember every twist and turn in the unfolding branc...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2015/07/extracting-clues-about-nancy.html
A Family Tapestry: Extracting Clues About Nancy
The difficulty with identifying family connections in the early 1800s is that documents from that time period don't share, outright, the i...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2014/10/walking-rainy-streets-of-dublin.html
A Family Tapestry: Walking the Rainy Streets of Dublin
If archaeology students in Europe can suffer from castle fatigue, can genealogy researchers succumb to foreign government repository fatigu...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/05/life-after-blue-screen-of-death.html
A Family Tapestry: Life After (Blue Screen of) Death
What had claimed its place in my life as the nadir of the previous week has, within one week's time, turned around and become a highlight o...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2020/10/if.html?m=1
A Family Tapestry: If . . .
Sometimes, when we are stuck on a research puzzle, we need to take a step back and re-assess the situation. I feel as if I am going round ...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/04/not-enough-pieces-to-solve-this-puzzle.html?m=0
A Family Tapestry: Not Enough Pieces to Solve this Puzzle
When I first found the photograph I showed you in yesterday's post, I thought there was enough information to figure out how to send it ho...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2014/05/one-shred-of-evidence.html
A Family Tapestry: One Shred of Evidence
While the letter it held is now barely legible, the envelope that directed that melancholy message home to the waiting wife of Stephen Mu...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-will-to-check.html
A Family Tapestry: The Will to Check
In chasing after your elusive ancestors, don't just settle for letting them attain Brick Wall status. Keep searching for documents which c...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2018/09/when-all-details-fall-into-place.html
A Family Tapestry: When all the Details Fall Into Place
When working on old photographs I've rescued from antique shops, it's always gratifying to quickly come to the conclusion about the subject...
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A Family Tapestry: June 2014
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2015/08/tapping-into-genealogical-mother-lode.html
A Family Tapestry: Tapping Into a Genealogical Mother Lode
It's fascinating how the prevalence of some surnames can change over time. I once ran across an ad for a genealogical company in Great Brit...
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https://afamilytapestry.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-fathers-whereabouts-per-sons-reports.html
A Family Tapestry: The Father's Whereabouts per the Son's Reports
Today's question: can we trace the whereabouts of an ancestor, simply by relying on the reports revealed by his sons' records? We're tryin...
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