Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Genealogy News Bytes - 2 April 2019


Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:

1)  News Articles:

*  Cyndi Ingle Joins The Genealogy Guys Podcast







3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar
*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar -- Tuesday 2 April, 6 p.m. PDT:  One Touch Genealogy Research: How to Handle a Record Just Once, by Thomas MacEntee

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday 3 April, 11 a.m. PDT: An Introduction to DNA Painter, by Jonny Perl

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #58 -- Why Do You Need a Research Log?


*  Research Like a Pro Podcast:  RLP 38: Three Tips for Connecting with Your DNA Cousins


5)  Genealogy Education - Video:



*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  DearMYRTLE - Your friend in genealogy

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  Google Drive

*  MyHeritage YouTube:  The MyHeritage DNA Wedding







8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 29 March 2019?


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Many RootsWeb Mailing Lists Are Now Inactive

I received an email from Genea-Musings reader Nancy yesterday, noting:
"My mailing list of 14 years that was still active was shut down (made inactive) I was told in automated repose that it was inactive or that my email as admin was no good. There was conversation on the list the week they marked it inactive and my email is the same as it has always been and is also my Ancestry email. (they have no trouble contacting me at renewal time ;-))  
"Look here at all the lists now marked inactive https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?surname=A#ADRIAN 
"This is after Ancestry took down the mailing lists and message boards for months in 2017-2018 -- see Eastman’s article here https://blog.eogn.com/2018/01/10/rootsweb-is-currently-unavailable-and-probably-will-remain-that-way-for-some-time/  
"It’s so discouraging after organizing and administering something for 14 years – guess they just want to kill it.  It was an invaluable way of organizing and communicating and it was FREE!"
Could this be true?  After decades of providing this service which many genealogists used over many years, is it all gone?  If so, that would be a real tragedy for genealogy.

The good news is that some of the mailing lists are still active, and the archives for them all are still accessible.  The bad news is that many mailing lists are now inactive and new information cannot be posted to them.  Nancy's list is inactive, but the archives for that list, and the other lists, are still available.

For those readers who have not used, or not known about, the RootsWeb Mailing Lists, they were one of the first "communities" set up in an organized manner back in the 1990s. There were mailing lists (you subscribed and received emails from each list whenever someone submitted an email) and message boards (you found them on the Internet, and created messages/posts) for surnames, localities (countries, states, counties,, etc), methodology (e.g., census, vital records, immigration, software, etc.), organizations (societies, DAR, etc.), and more.  They were logically set up and the contents were searchable and archived.

When I found a new surname in my research, I would go to the Mailing Lists and Message Boards to
search for posts about that surname and hope that some contributor had more information than I did.

It was, along with the RootsWeb Message Boards, the "Social Media for Genealogy" before Facebook.  Everyone used them.  And it was better organized and logical than Facebook pages and groups are now.

So, how does it work now?  Here is a process to search the Mailing Lists:

1)  Go to https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/ on the RootsWeb site:


On the screen above, there are links to "Search List Archives," "Popular Lists," and "Find a List."

The screen above says that there are 32,740 genealogy mailing lists.  I think, but don't know, if that number includes the inactive lists.

Further down the page are links for Surnames, States, Countries, and more:


2)  On the first screen, I entered "seaver" in the "Find A List" field, clicked "Search" and saw:


There is a Seaver surname mailing list, but it is Inactive now.  I clicked on the link for the list:

 On the screen above, there is a link to "browse or search the archives," so I clicked that:


3)  The list of archived mailing list posts are by year and month.  The screen above told me that there were no posts for April 2019.  Actually, the last posts on the Seaver mailing list were posted in 2011, and before that in 2005.

I clicked on 2011, and then November and saw the lists of posts for that month:

I can click on the title of each post to see the post and any responses to the post in a thread.

3)  Did Rootsweb/Ancestry announce to the genealogy world, or to the mailing list administrators, that they were making thousands of mailing lists inactive?   Why would they do this?  How much time and server space do they think they saved?  How much time did it take to make thousands of lists inactive?  What criteria were used to select the inactive lists?

What will happen next?  Will Inactive list archives be eliminated in the future?  What about message boards?  Will some of them be made inactive?

I may be an old geneasaurus, but these mailing lists and message boards are very valuable for many genealogists and family historians.

Thank you to Nancy for telling me, and my readers, about thousands of mailing lists becoming Inactive.

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Treasure Chest Tuesday -- 1860 United States Census Record for Ann Auble in Stillwater, New Jersey

This week's Tuesday Treasure is the 1860 United States Census record for Ann Auble in Stillwater, New Jersey:

The Ann Auble entry is in the Sophia Hults household - the fourth from the top of the image above:

The extracted information for the Sophia Hults household is:

*  Sophia Hults - age 49, female, white, 1350 in real property, 210 in personal property, born in N.J.
*  Ann S. Bail - age 5, female, white, born in N.J.
*  Ann Auble - age 73, female, white, born in N.J.

The source citation for this marriage record is:

 1860 United States Federal Census, Sussex County, New Jersey, population schedule, Page 304, Dwelling #249, Family #260, Sophia Hults household; indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 709.

From previous research on the Auble family, I know that Ann (Row) Auble (1787-1860) married John Auble (1780-1831) in 1804, and had at least nine children.  Their daughter, Sophia (Auble) (Foster) Hulse (1805-1887) was the eldest child, who married (1) Alley H. Foster (1805-1833) in about 1827, and (2) Seth W. Hulse (1797-1856) before 1850.  Euphemia Foster (1828-1895) was the only child of Alley and Sophia.  Euphemia had a daughter, Samantha Ann Bale (1855-????).

In the census record above, Sophia "Hults" is Sophia (Auble) (Foster) Hulse, and Ann S. Bail is Samantha Ann Bale.  Ann Auble is the mother of Sophia Hults, and the great-grandmother of Ann S. Bail.

John and Ann (Row) Auble are my third great-grandparents.  I am descended through their son, David Auble (1817-1894), who married Sarah G. Knapp (1818-1904).  
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Monday, April 1, 2019

Monday Genea-Pourri - 1 April 2019

Here is a summary of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society general meeting on Wednesday, with 20 in attendance.  Susi Pentico spoke about "In the Beginning" about the society's initial years in the 1980s and 1990s.  She used photographs of society events, especially the Christmas parties.  Sandy Palumbo, the first president of the society, attended.  It was great to see her.

2)  Found and transcribed the 1843 deed of 3rd great-grandfather Zachariah Hildreth selling land in Townsend, Mass. to James Hildreth for Amanuensis Monday.

3)  Wrote and posted a biography of 6th great-grandfather #444 Michael Metcalf (1706-1771) of Medway, Mass. and Keene, N.H.  for my 52 Ancestors post on Friday.  

 4)  Corresponded with two Seaver descendants and sent them RootsMagic ancestor reports for their Seaver ancestral families.

5)  Watched one Family Tree Webinar - A Terrible Malady: Disease and Epidemics in New England, by Lori Lyn Price.

6)  Participated in today's Mondays With Myrt.  Today's webinar discussed Debbie Wayne's new DNA book; genealogy software in Spanish; news from the last week; the Guild of One-Name Studies conference in Leicester; my post about trusting online trees; the NERGC conference this week; upcoming webinars; and FamilyTreeDNA opt-out announcement.

7) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and other ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 30,177 of my RootsMagic persons with FSFT.  Updated and cleaned up the Family Tree profiles for two ancestors, including life sketches, sources and notes.

8)  I continue to use Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 53,135 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 103,175 source citations.   I TreeShared one time during the last week (about 230 profiles), and resolved about 240 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 106,818 to be resolved, but I work on them weekly.

 9)  Baseball season started last Thursday, so my genealogy research time will be restricted a bit over the seven months.  We have a 20 game season ticket for the Padres, and we went to the games on Thursday and Saturday.  We watch the other games on television.  So my 8 to 11 hour genealogy days become 6 to 9 hours on game days.  The good news is that the Padres are 3-1 on the season so far.

 10) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which three were press releases.  The most popular post last week was Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 24 to 30 March 2019 with over 238 views.  
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Sorting Out My Thomas J. Newtons

I most recently wrote about "my" 3rd great-grandfather Thomas J. Newton in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 31: #38 Thomas J. Newton (ca 1800 - ????) (posted 1 August 2014) and in Who Really Was the Father of Sophia Newton (183?-1923)? (posted 12 May 2014).

 To summarize what I think I know about "my" guy:  Thomas J. Newton (about 1795-after 1835?) married in about 1834 to Sophia (Buck) Brigham (1797-1882, widow of Lambert Brigham (1794-1834).  I have found no birth or death records that I can conclusively connect to this Thomas J. Newton.  The available records indicate that Thomas J. and Sophia (Buck) (Brigham)  Newton had two children, Sophia  Newton  (1834?-1923) and Thomas J. Newton (1835?-1915).  The marriage records for the two children say that their father was born in Maine, and that they were born in Cambridge, Vermont (presumably the Cambridge in Lamoille County).  However, there is no marriage record for Thomas and Sophia, and no birth records for the two children.  

 There is another Thomas J(efferson) Newton (1808-1852) in New England in the same time frame, and I often wondered if he is the same person as "my" Thomas J. Newton.  He married Eliza Coffin in 1843 in Dedham, Massachusetts, and they had children in 1844 and 1848 (another Thomas Jefferson Newton!) who both died young.  He died in Reading, Massachusetts on 16 September 1852, and his death record identified his parents as Jacob and Fanny (Parks) Newton.  His birth record is in the Dixfield, Maine town records, and his age at death was 45.  Jacob and Fanny (Parks) Newton died and are buried in Dixfield, Maine. Was this Thomas married before he married Eliza Coffin?  Is he "my" Thomas?

 After a bit of recent research, my working hypothesis is that they are two separate men.  The critical evidence is the death record of William F. Newton (1836-1903), whose parents are listed as Thomas J. Newton and Nancy Kennedy in the "Maine Death Records, 1761-1922" collection on Ancestry.com:

The death record for William F. Newton is a Derivative Source (the original is probably in a town record book), with Secondary Information about the parents of William F. Newton.  However, it is the only record I've found to date with this information.  There may be other records in Maine that are not digitized.  There is a Civil War Pension File for him that may include more information about his birth and parents.

 There is also an Albert L. Newton (1834-1865) buried in Riverside Cemetery in Dixfield, a casualty at the end of the Civil War that was born in October 1834.  He was in the 1850 U.s. Census record with the Thomas J. Newton married to eliza Coffin as a 16 year old male.  His probate record names his only brother William F. Newton as administrator, but he declined the appointment.  Therefore Albert L. is the brother of William F. Newton, and therefore a son of the "other" Thomas J. and Nancy (Kennedy) Newton.

 My working hypothesis is based on the information about the births of the children of "my" Thomas J. Newton - Sophia in 1834 and Thomas J. in about 1835, both in Cambridge, Vermont.  The "other" Thomas J. Newton has Albert L. in 1834, and William F. in 1836, both in Dixfield, Maine.  Unless Thomas was traveling extensively, he is probably not the father of both sets of children.

 Also, I think it is unlikely that a Thomas J. Newton born in 1808 would marry Sophia (Buck) Brigham (1797-1882) in about 1834 (he would be age 26, she would be 37) - possible, but unlikely.

 So, I think I have eliminated Thomas J. Newton (1808-1852) from the fatherhood sweepstakes for Sophia (Newton) Hildreth (1834?-1923).  

 However, I am concerned by the death of Sophia (Buck) Brigham's first husband, Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) in Westborough, Massachusetts, coupled with Sophia Newton's likely birth date of 14 September 1834, ostensibly in Cambridge, Vermont.  Lambert Brigham died on 5 May 1834, and if Sophia was born in September 1834, that means that her father is probably Lambert Brigham and not Thomas J. Newton (unless Sophia was fooling around several months before Lambert's death). 

  If Sophia Newton (1834-1923) was born in 1835 or later, then she is probably "my" Thomas J. Newton's daughter.  

 So there appear to be at least four Thomas J. Newton persons in this challenge, two being the fathers, and two being the sons.

 I have so much uncertainty, and so few records to work with.  Does a reader have any suggestions?

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1843 Deed of Zachariah Hildreth to James Hildreth in Townsend, Massachusetts

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1843 deed of  Zachariah Hildreth to James Hildreth of Townsend in the Middlesex County, Massachusetts Land Records: 

[Volume 429, pages 200-201]

 The transcription of this deed is:

[Volume 429, page 200, starts at middle of left-hand page]

[in left-hand margin]

Zachariah Hildreth
        to 
James Hildreth

[body of text]

                                      Know all men by these presents that
I Zachariah Hildreth of Townsend in the County of Middle-
sex in the State of Massachusetts Yeoman in consideration of
three hundred dollars to me paid by James Hildreth of said
Townsend Yeoman the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do
hereby give grant bargain sell and convey unto the said James
Hildreth his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece of land with
the buildings on the same situated in the southeasterly part of
said Townsend containing three and one fourth acres more
or less and bounded beginning at a stake with stones on the
road leading from said Zachariah Hildreths house to Lunen-
berg at a corner of Isaac Spauldings land; thence northerly
by said road about fourteen rods to a stake & stones; thence
northerly about seven rods to a stake and stones; thence east-
erly about two rods and ten feet to the aforesaid road thence
northerly by said road about six and a half rods to a stake &
stones at land of said Zachariah Hildreth; thence southwest-
erly by said Z. Hildreth land about thirty nine rods to a

 [Volume 429, page 201]

stake and stones; thence southerly by said Z Hildreths land
about four rods to a stake and stones at land of said Isaac Spaul-
ding; thence southeasterly by said Spauldings land about forty rods
to the bounds first mentioned.  To Have and to Hold the above-
granted premises with the privileges and appurtenances thereto
belonging to the said James Hildreth his heirs and assigns to his
and their use and behoof forever.  And I the said Zachariah
Hildreth for myself and my heirs executors and administra-
tors do covenant with the said James Hildreth his heirs and as-
signs that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore granted prem-
ises, that they are free from all encumbrances; that I have good
right to sell and convey the same to the said James Hildreth
as aforesaid; and that I will and my heirs executors and ad-
ministrators shall warrant & defend the same to the sd
James Hildreth, his heirs and assigns forever against the law-
ful claims and demands of all persons.  In Witness Where-
of, the said Zachariah Hildreth and Hannah wife of the
said Zachariah in token of her full and free release of dower
in said premises have hereunto set our hands and seals this
twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred & forty three.                     Zachariah Hildreth  {seal}
     Executed & delivered in   |           Hannah Hildreth   {seal}
    presence of us                    |    Middlesex ss March 23^d A.D.
    Paul Gerrish                     |     1843.  Then personally appear
    Elisabeth Hildreth           |     ed the above named Zachari-
ah Hildreth  acknowledged the above instrument to be his
free act & deed before me   Paul Gerrish Justice of the Peace
     Middlesex ss June 16^th 1843 Rec^d & Recorded by
                                                          W^m F. Stone Reg.

 Here is the approximate shape of the parcel of land sold, drawn by hand to a scale of 12 rods per inch, but the plot does not "close" properly because the directions are not exactly northerly or southwesterly, etc.  Still, it provides a clue as to where the land might be when compared to a map of the area.

The source citation for this recorded deed is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 2 February 2019), Middlesex County, "Deeds, 1843, Vol. 429," Volume 429, pages 200-201 (image 103 of 285), Deed of Zachariah Hildreth to James Hildreth, executed 23 March 1843, recorded 16 June 1843.

Zachariah Hildreth sold this 3 acre piece of land to his son, James Hildreth, for 300 dollars on 23 March 1843.  The land is in the southeastern part of Townsend, Massachusetts, along the road to Lunenburg, and is bounded by the road, land of Isaac Spaulding and Zachariah Hildreth.  The deed was acknowledged on 23 March 1843, and recorded on 16  June 1843.

It may be that this land was obtained from Hannah (Sawtell) Hildreth's father, Josiah Sawtell because of the dower statement, either by deed or by probate, although Josiah Sawtell did not die until 1847.

Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857), who married Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810, is my third great-grandfather.  I am descended from their son, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married Sophia Newton  (1834-1923) in 1852.

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Dear Randy - Newbies Need to Be Warned!

Genea-Musings reader Sherry emailed me over the weekend, saying:
"DNA has been instrumental in discovering new relatives who are NOT family researchers. Newbies need to be warned about the dangers of importing trees that may contain errors.  
"One of my new family members has created a tree - fine - but has assumed that all Ancestry trees are accurate and he has imported a line based on some of our family names that includes Mary Todd Lincoln and other ancestors going back to Scottish nobility. ('I’ll bet you didn’t know we’re descended from famous Scottish Nobility.') His 'un-sourced research' is based on gleanings from Ancestry trees and Wikipedia. He wrote...'Most of the time I just wait for it to tell me there’s a Potential Parent, compare the names and dates and accept their recommendations if it all matches perfectly.'  EEEEEEeeeeekkkk!  
"When attempting to explain that everything needs proper sources - using GPS or, at least, something akin to that  - this is the answer I get: 'Seriously though, am I wrong to trust the Ancestry database?' 
I don't hear from him much any more and he is perpetuating the rumors throughout the family. Giving him the benefit of a doubt...he may have made some important discoveries, however I see no 'proof' - am I wrong? 
"I know there have been articles/blogs/webinars addressing this - will you point me to some?"
My response was:

I feel your pain and agony and frustration!  I see it every week at my local genealogical society meetings and online.

1)  Here are three articles I've written about "Potential Ancestors" on Ancestry Member Trees:

*  How Accurate Is an Ancestry Quick and Dirty Tree? (posted 5 November 2018).  In the Quick and Dirty Tree post, I found that five of my 64 ancestors (back through 4th great-grands on my father's side) were wrong just using Potential Ancestors suggested by Ancestry.  That does not give me confidence that they should be used without doing a lot of research - they should only be used as clues for research.

*  Ancestry.com Suggests "Potential Ancestors" For your Ancestry Member Tree (posted 19 June 2018)  I did find that two of the many Potential Ancestors suggested by Ancestry were correct.  Others may be correct, but I have seen no conclusive evidence for many of the suggested potential ancestors in my Ancestor Member Tree.  A 5% to 10% error rate in "Potential Ancestors" seems to be the norm, not the exception.  Is that "good enough?"  I don't think so. 

*  A Reader's Take on Ancestry.com Problems - Part IV: The Ancestry Big Tree (posted 13 February 2019).   That post explains how we know that there is a BIG Ancestry Tree and what is in it.  That BIG Ancestry Tree is used for the Potential Ancestors in Ancestry Member Trees, for the ThruLines DNA common ancestor feature, and for the We're Related mobile app, plus for a Google search for a person profile.  Again, a 5% to 10% error rate appears to be the norm, not the exception.

2)  Other writers and bloggers may have written about these topics; I don't keep a bibliography of things like that.  You might do a Google search with suitable search terms.   Or you might look through my Best of the Genea-Blogs weekly posts because I tend to pick blog posts about these topics.

3)  Every newbie will benefit from reading "how to" books like the Val Greenwood classic, The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. 4th Edition.  There are many more genealogy books (for beginner, intermediate, advanced and professional researchers) available at public libraries (city, county, region, state, etc.).  

4)  Every newbie will benefit from taking a beginner's course in genealogy - many local, state and regional genealogical societies have classes every year.  Have your cousin look for a nearby genealogical society.

5)  There are quite a few "Beginner" videos online in the FamilySearch Learning Center.  You can search subjects like "beginner" or "sources" or "census" or "England" or or "church records," etc.  You might recommend the video  "If I'd Only Known - Beginner Genealogy Mistakes."

There are many more videos online on YouTube - just search for "genealogy."  The big companies (Ancestry, MyHeritage and Findmypast) have "Help" sections on their websites to provide education and information.

6)  Doing genealogy research online seems so simple at the beginning - just point, click and add ancestors to your tree and attach records that seem to pertain to those ancestors also.  What is lost in this age is the experience of:

*  Discovering new records in a repository (in books, periodicals, microfilm, digital microfilm), 
*  Obtaining vital record certificates at the county clerk's office, 
*  Finding and corresponding with other researchers, 
*  Learning local, state and national history, 
*  Learning and sharing of experiences in a group of researchers at a repository or in a genealogical society.  
*  Making basic research mistakes and learning from them.  

7)  All of that contributes to the knowledge base of each person.  I've seen it said that it takes about 10,000 hours of study and experience to be competent in any subject, and I think that's true of genealogy and family history.

8)  I know that many Genea-Musings readers have suggestions for books, periodicals, and websites that they can recommend for a "newbie genealogist" - please share them in Comments to this post.

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Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 24 to 30 March 2019

Dozens of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  Researching Your Farming Ancestors by Linda Stufflebean on the Empty Branches on the Family Tree blog.

*  DeGroot Family Visits Goodriaan and Lexmond by John Boeren on the Antecedentia blog.

*  How I’m Using Curt Witcher’s RootsTech Class: Five Things All Genealogists Should Do Before They Die by Alyson Mansfield on the OnGenealogy blog.

*  Using DNA To Solve Genealogical Brick Walls by Brandt on the Legacy Tree Genealogists blog.

*  Family Correspondence: What To Do With It by Wayne Shepheard on the Discover Genealogy blog.

*  12 More RootsTech 2019 Sessions Available to Watch Online by Gail Dever on the Genealogy a la Carte blog.

*  Your All-in-One Family Tree Clean-Up List by DiAnn Iamarino on the Fortify Your Family Tree blog.

*  Quick Tip -- Is That An Every Name Index? by Yvette Hoitink on the Dutch Genealogy blog.

*  Genealogy Video Round Up by Devon Noel Lee on the Family History Fanatics blog.

*  Ancestry.com Answers: My Problems With the Search Engine by Linda Stufflebean on the Empty Branches on the Family Tree blog.

*  Examining my MyHeritage AutoClusters by Shelley Crawford on the Trees of Yore blog.

 Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday's Family History Finds by Linda Stufflebean on the Empty Branches on the Family Tree blog.

*  Friday Fossicking - 29th Mar 2019 by Crissouli on the That Moment in Time blog.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme -- March 30, 2019  by Gail Dever on the Genealogy a la Carte blog.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 24 to 30 March 2019

The following record collections were listed on the Ancestry Card Catalog list on Ancestry.com during the period from 24 to 30 March 2019:  

The ADDED and Updated record collections are:

*  Massachusetts, Boston Archdiocese Roman Catholic Sacramental Records, 1789-1900; indexed database without record images, Updated 3/28/2019

*  Netherlands, Marriage Index, 1575-1938; indexed database without record images, Updated 3/28/2019

*  Netherlands, Birth Index, 1784-1917; indexed database without record images, Updated 3/28/2019

*  U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942; indexed database with record images, Updated 3/27/2019

*  England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005; indexed database with record images, Updated 3/25/2019

*  U.S., Baseball Questionnaires, 1945-2005; indexed database with record images, ADDED 3/25/2019

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at    http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.  

By my count, there was 1 NEW collection ADDED this past week, per the list above.  There are now 32,655 collections available as of 30 March, an increase of  1 from last week.

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Disclosure:  I have had a fully paid Ancestry.com subscription since 2000.  Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.


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