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• Ancestry.com Blog | The official blog of Ancestry.com
  Ancestry.com Newspaper database search tips
  Tags: search, tips, research, genealogy, history
  • - By Nancy Lecompte
  • Restricting your search to “exact” can help narrow the results.
  • enter a date in the year field under Publication Info
  • also allow a little wiggle room by entering +/- 1, 2, 5 or 10 years
  • to search for a phrase, put it in quotes
  • Search beyond your ancestor’s stomping grounds
  • Try searching the entire collection for a place name (town or county) instead of a person.
• Genealogy Tip of the Day: Did They Switch Middle Initials?
  Tags: genealogy, tip
  • Did your married female ancestor use her middle name for her middle initial in one record and her maiden name for her middle initial in another?
• One in a Million - Family Tree Magazine
  "So you've found your ancestors among the zillions of names in online trees. Now what?"
  Tags: tips, genealogy
  • - By Nancy Lecompte
  • Step 1: Verify the data.
  • Step 4: Mine county histories.
  • Step 8: Seek death details.

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Marleah Review (1)

Today I will provide my first general review of the data collected for Marleah / Mary (Moulton) Kanistanaux. I need to assess what is known and what is missing for this family member. This will assist me in planning my next phase of research.

Moulton Family Review (1)

Today I will review what I know about Eli & Catherine Moulton. Since I know very little about this couple, this will be a good post to explain my charts in case a reader is interested in using this technique to analysis their own family mysteries.

Kanistanaux Family Review (1)

The Kanistanaux family appears to be central to this mystery of who the two Indian Doctresses (Marleah & Lee-o-netto) are and how they relate to each other. However, as is so often the case in genealogy research, the more I learn about the family, the more I realize I don’t really know very much about this family!