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Researching Spiritualist Ancestors (opens the original)
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A family can stop appearing in the records a researcher expects without having moved, died out, or changed its name. In one common form of the problem, a household appears in the census and the tax lists of the same township decade after decade, while the church register that recorded its baptisms, marriages and burials for two earlier generations stops mentioning it in the 1850s or 1860s. The births, marriages and deaths went on happening. The family had stopped bringing them to that church.One
Ghosts and Genealogy: How to Test a Paranormal Lead (opens the original)
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Sooner or later a client tells you something that did not come from a record.It usually arrives in an unremarkable way. Part way through a first conversation, a woman explains that she wants the Ohio side researched because her mother was told something by a medium back in 1978. A man writes to say that his grandmother appeared to him in a dream and gave him a town name he had never heard before. A family tradition turns out, three generations back, to have started at a séance.The first time it
How to Research a Living Person Without Breaking the Rules (opens the original)
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Many people start looking for a living relative after a DNA test. Some have found an unexpected half-sister on their match list. Others were adopted and want to find a birth parent. Most of them soon learn that genealogy forums will not help with living people. The genealogy group on Reddit, r/Genealogy, states this rule in its description, and many Facebook genealogy groups have the same rule. Family tree websites such as FamilySearch and Ancestry also hide living people from public view.The fo
How to Verify a Claimed Death in a Mass-Casualty Event (opens the original)
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A large disaster usually leaves two lists behind: the people who died, and the people someone said died. The two lists rarely match. Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the gap between those two lists is still being worked, and the way it was worked in New York offers the clearest modern example of how a genealogist should test a death claim attached to a mass-casualty event.The problem is older and wider than 9/11. Family trees carry notes reading “lost on the Titanic,” “
How to Research the Ukrainian Diaspora in Britain and Ireland (opens the original)
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Most people researching a Ukrainian family in Britain start with the postwar wave, because that is the one everyone has heard of, and a good number of them stop there when nothing turns up. The wave is real, around 35,000 people, but it is one of at least seven, and the other six left records in completely different places under completely different labels. Before searching anything, establish which arrival you are dealing with and which of the four jurisdictions holds its paperwork.Ukrainians h
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