Newsletter Vol. 11, No. 6 - January 22, 2005

Hard to Find Surnames: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Vol. 11, No. 6 - January 22, 2006
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==> Ethnic Eccentricities - Who Dreams Up These Rules?
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Among the most frustrating things for the genealogist working
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are not often written down and yet they affect almost every
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==> Specks Can Obscure the View
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The view of something large and magnificent can be obscured
by a small object close to the eye or a speck of dust in
the eye. I am not sure if this is some variation of a long
familiar proverb but it seems to be an apt concept to set
up in view of any genealogist’s desk.

Much as a miniscule piece of dust can block out the sun,
one bit of misinformation, one omission or one strategy
error can block the way to successfully researching one
or more ancestors.

For 2006, I intend keeping this bit of wisdom front and
center because over the Christmas holiday period, having
done a little dusting round my family history files, I
recognized some specks that got in the way...

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==> Marriage Bonds
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The Ancestry Daily News announces the addition of new
databases at the Ancestry.com site at the top of the
newsletter. With the move to larger, but less frequent
rolls of new data, Juliana began early last year to showcase
“Ancestry Classics” -- that is, databases that have been
around for a while, but that may have been missed or become
buried and forgotten. I’m always eager to see what’s new
that might help my research or be reminded of a database
that I perhaps should revisit. In the Ancestry Daily News
of 6 January 2006, the “Ancestry Classic” really piqued my
research interest. It is the North Carolina Marriage Bonds,
1741-1868. I had missed this database when it originally
went up and since I have many North Carolina ancestors, I
was sure that this new database would have something
interesting for me.

In Along Those Lines . . . this week, I want to talk a bit
about marriage bonds and to illustrate some information that
I found in this particular database.

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