Using Your Citations to Reveal Clusters In The US Census.
Citations are an art and there is usually more than one way to correctly write one. And given that I am obsessed with discovering clusters in my genealogy I took a good long look at how I could write my citations in the U.S. Census to maybe reveal some new information. Now, we all know,... Continue Reading →
Clusters: What Do You Need To Research?
So the more I ponder and the more I mull, it seems there is more than one type of cluster you can put your ancestor in. Clusters that are a single event. Signing a petition is a single event that creates a cluster. Being enumerated in 1830 in York County is a multi day event... Continue Reading →
Every Document Is A Cluster Document: Pre 1850 Census Records
It’s easy to skip those early census records, they just have that one name, often unreadable and a lot of tick marks. But you will find the cluster of people living in the household, likely family members. So how do you pull the clusters of out these documents and associate names with the tick marks.... Continue Reading →
Where Do I Find The Petition Men? Start With A Cluster of Martins in the 1830 census.
I have 29 men, some I think I know, some I have no idea. The petition submitted to the SC General Assembly was written in 1834, and according to the SC Archives, these men are inhabitants of York County, SC. So it seems reasonable to look in York County and the census seems a likely... Continue Reading →
If Your Document Has At Least Two People, Well It’s A Cluster
Yesterday, I started writing about how I have been mulling and pondering about what is in my genealogy toolkit. And I came up lacking on tools to help me understand documents as clusters. I was looking at a petition that some of my ancestors had signed asking the SC General Assembly not to change the... Continue Reading →
Mulling and Pondering My Genealogy Toolkit
I was poking around on South Carolina Department of Archives and History looking through their online digitized images, specifically looking for transcribed wills. And I discovered Petitions to the General Assembly while searching for my ancestor Bird Martin. And I found this entry: Inhabitants of York District, Petition Against the Proposed Altering of the State... Continue Reading →
So That’s What She Looked Like!
Wouldn't it be nice if we had pictures of all of our ancestors? One of the joys of being on Ancestry (note: they employ me!) is that you can connect with so many people. I met a cousin a while back and we messaged back and forth. Lovely lady. And a week or so ago,... Continue Reading →
Ancestry — Declaration Descendants
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