My Trails into the Past

I wrote about my cool find at the new FamilySearch feature of every word search in US land and probate records. This game-changer has allowed me to locate more records than I had found using just the land indexes and probate indexes. Sometimes the clerk might forget to record the transaction in the index, or if the index was copied into a new modern system, an entry might get missed. Ever wondered how an ancestor got a deed for the land they were selling? It might be missing from the index but is in the deed book. My post yesterday on my other blog , showed how to locate these cool documents. Today, I want to show how to locate the information you need to create source citations. This document is found within the new “images” section, so the procedure I used in the past does not work. The digital film number is not listed above the images as it was before when accessing documents from the catalog entry. Below is the results page for the Coor-Hoggatt agreement. Let’s work our way a...

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal has a monthly blog party for geneabloggers to write about a certain topic.  This month the topic is "What genealogy 'resource' are you thankful for this year?" 2)  Please join the blog party and write about your response on your own blog post, in a comment on this post and/or Elizabeth's post, or on Facebook.  I am most thankful for the website FamilySearch . Each day, more and more records have been digitized and put online. These are not just indexes, but actual images of original documents! It has made researching so much easier. I can either find records from my own home, or if the image is locked, go the eight miles to the local Family History Center and view the images on their computers. So now there are three ways to view records at FamilySearch: Microfilm, not yet digitized. Must view at the Family History Li...