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Women’s History Month Database: The Woman’s Standard

Mar 9, 2010 4:26pm

The Woman’s Standard is a United States (Des Moines, Iowa) suffragist newspaper. Founded in 1886 by Martha Callanan, The Woman’s Standard was a publication of the Iowa State Women’s Suffrage Association. While there are names throughout the newspaper of women (and men) who wrote in and reported about equality and...

Hail to the Chief

Mar 3, 2010 10:45am

By Gena Philibert Ortega Most everyone has those family stories that may not be backed up with written documentation, but the story is strongly believed all the same. Maybe your grandma told you that her grandfather rode with Jesse James. Maybe you have a Lee surname and you have...

WorldVitalRecords Database in Review: Digested Summary of Private Claims

Feb 19, 2010 2:36pm

Digested Summary of Private Claims Digested Summary of Private Claims. (1853-1882). Historically almost half of the laws passed by Congress have been private acts applying to a single person or a specified group of people from entrepreneurs to destitute soldiers and widows. Beginning with 10 claims in 1789 the petitions...

Happy Valentine’s Day from WorldVitalRecords

Feb 14, 2010 8:42am

Happy Valentine’s Day! Looking for your ancestor’s marriage record? Try searching on WorldVitalRecords by Record Type. Go to the WorldVitalRecords homepage, www.worldvitalrecords.com, and click on the Record Types link, located in the blue toolbar. Then choose the link Birth, Marriage and Death Records. You can then...

How to Contact Living Relatives

Jan 28, 2010 10:25am

By Gena Philibert Ortega Researching the dead can be easy. Contacting the living can be a whole different ball game. When you find a new cousin, except for genealogist cousins, the most important thing to remember is that not everyone is thrilled about family history. In fact some people could care...

WVR Database in Review: The Ottawa City Directory 1909

Jan 19, 2010 9:47am

The Ottawa City Directory 1909 A very complete and useful directory of Ottawa and Hull for 1909, including the (then) outlying districts of Ottawa: Billings Bridge, Eastview (Old Cummings Bridge, Janeville & Clarkstown), Mechanicsville and Rockliffe Park. The directory gives an alphabetical list of all business firms and private citizens; a...

WVR Database in Review: Passengers Arriving in New York from Ireland

Jan 14, 2010 12:41pm

Passengers Arriving in New York from Ireland 1846–1851 http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=ireland_famine Historical Context The Center for Immigration Research (CIR) at the Balch Institute created this series to promote access to information about immigrants from Ireland to the United States during the era of the Irish Potato Famine, 1846-1851. It was extracted from ship passenger...

Business and Occupational Records

Dec 28, 2009 5:16pm

by Gena Philibert Ortega Employment and business records can provide rich detail about the everyday lives of our ancestors. Even if your ancestor was a “farmer,” details about what farming was like during your ancestor’s era can provide you with a better understanding of their life and lead you to other...

Cousins

Dec 14, 2009 8:15am

by Gena Philibert Ortega A lot of confusion exists around the subject of cousins. Everyone knows that a cousin (or also known as a first cousin) is the daughter or son of their parent’s siblings. But after that, the confusion begins for most people. When thinking of cousins just remember that...

How did your Ancestor Spell his Name?

Dec 3, 2009 11:11am

By Gena Philibert Ortega Consistency in spelling is a more modern concern, and when searching for ancestors, it is not unusual to have an ancestor whose name is spelled a variety of ways by himself and by others. So how do you find someone whose name seems to change every time they...