Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Do Some FamilySearch Full-Text Searching

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  FamilySearch Full-Text Search continues to add databases and searchable images to their collections.  This is a gold mine, especially of land, probate and court records.

2)  Pick one or two of your ancestors or research targets and see what you can find on FamilySearch Full-Text Search about them.

3)  Share your Full-Text Search find(s) in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post.  Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.

Here's mine:

I have been researching my wife's McKnew ancestry again in Maryland records, and found some records in FamilySearch Fill-Text Search, including:

• Basil McNew Will record from 1817 in Prince George's County, Maryland: 

"Prince George's, Maryland, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https://

www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT1L-2LT?view=fullText : Jan 14, 2026),

image 111 of 554; Hall of Records (Annapolis, Maryland),Maryland. County Court

(Prince Georges County),Maryland. Hall of Records. Image Group Number: 005080169

• Nathan McNew's Will record from 1834 in Prince George's County, Maryland: 

"Prince George's, Maryland, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https://

www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT1L-2N8?view=fullText : Jan 14, 2026),

image 292 of 554; Hall of Records (Annapolis, Maryland),Maryland. County Court

(Prince Georges County),Maryland. Hall of Records. Image Group Number: 005080169

• Nathan McKnew's guardianship record from 1834 in Prince George's County, Maryland:

"Prince George's, Maryland, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https://

www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTY2-93TZ?view=fullText : Jan 13, 2026), image 492 of 786; Maryland. County Court (Prince Georges County). Image Group Number: 005080179

• I also searched for Benjamin Pickrell/Pickeral in Prince George's County and found nothing of use.  I looked in District of Columbia and there were 13 matches, but only the death of his wife in 1841 was useful. Oh well. 

==============================================

The URL for this post is: 

Copyright (c) 2026, Randall J. Seaver

Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post.  Share it on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest using the icons below.  Or contact me by email at randy.seaver@gmail.com. Note that all comments are moderated, and may not appear immediately.

Subscribe to receive a free daily email from Genea-Musings using www.Blogtrottr.com.