August 2012
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Phyllis Diller: The Consummate Performer
Yesterday we lost a comedic legend when Phyllis Diller died at the age of 95. I remember watching her on Bob Hope specials and on so many variety shows when I was growing up. The sight of that crazy hair and wardrobe never failed to bring a smile. And that awesome laugh. If you didn’t laugh at the joke she was telling (and that was rare), you laughed when she laughed. It was contagious. She was...
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A Father Finds His Long Lost Daughter
For the past decade I have been researching my father’s side of the family, and knew particularly little about my 4th great-grandfather, Timothy Stokin, and his family.
The first break-through in our research came with finding Timothy and his family in Greenfield, Pennsylvania, in 1850. By 1860, they had moved to Merton, Wisconsin. Through those censuses we learned about Timothy and...
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Your Story: 50 Year Old Mystery Solved
In 1962 when I was twelve years old I found an old photo album in an antique shop while traveling with my mother and father from Ohio to New Hampshire during a summer vacation. As my parents had always instilled the love of photography and history, I was drawn to and fell in love with this leather-bound treasure. I am grateful that my parents admired my interest and allowed me to purchase this...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: Three Andrew Blankinships. How...
Hi Anne, I’ve run into a brick wall on researching my great grandfather, Andrew Blankinship. We have very little information about him…parents and siblings are unknown. Here is the information we do have:
1) Born in Ohio, believed to be around Cleveland. I had entered parents I found on my tree, but later deleted them as I found 3 sets of parents who had a child named Andrew around...
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1940 Census Update—All States and Territories Now...
That does it. As we told you this morning, you can now search for your relatives from any state in the just-completed index to the 1940 census on Ancestry.com. We took the latest state indexes for a test drive and here’s who we found.
Christopher Lloyd In the hit movie Back to the Future, we see “Doc Brown” as he was in 1955. Now we can travel back in time and catch a glimpse of actor...
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1940 U.S. Census: 50 States, 134 Million Names, 1...
Today is all about numbers. The first is 100, as in 100 percent of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census is now indexed. That means all 50 states are available to search to your heart’s content. Our indexing came up with 134,395,545 people counted. Most reports on the 1940 census give the U.S. population as 132 million and change, so you may be wondering where the extra 2 million people came from.
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Citing Your Sources -- PDF's of the presentations
You can find the links to the pdfs for the sourcing presentation on my blog Finding Forgotten Stories.
Happy Searching!
