Would you like to automate the transcription of handwritten documents? Or quickly search for a particular name in a large probate or pension application file? Transkribus is an innovative platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to make deciphering old handwriting a faster. Whether you’re tracing your family...
In part 1 of this series, we discussed records of the parish chest that can help our research. This blog post will feature tax records, a valuable resource beyond parish collections. One might think taxes aren’t helpful to genealogy since they only name the individual paying the tax: typically, the...
Anyone researching their English ancestry knows how important parish records are. The British government began documenting births, marriages, and deaths in 1837, but before that, it was up to the Church of England to record the life events of its parishioners, typically in the form of baptisms, marriages, and burials....
FamilySearch announced at RootsTech last week that they have launched a full-text search powered by artificial intelligence. It currently includes the US Land and Probate Records and Mexico Notary Records collections. This is still an “experiment” in FamilySearch labs, available at https://www.familysearch.org/Labs/, but it already includes over 100,000,000 records, with...
If you have an ancestor who became a United States citizen in the 20th century, you will have a rich source of information about their origins, emigration, residence, family, and more. The changes made to the naturalization process in 1906 by the U.S. Congress resulted in standardized forms that requested...
In part 3 of this series, Back to the Basics with Marriage Records: Church Marriage Records, I talked about church marriage records and how to find them. While church marriage records are common and easy to find in Europe, civil marriage records are much easier to find in United States...
Church marriage records are a common record set used in genealogy research for many European countries. Church marriage records can also be found in U.S. research. Depending on the time period and state, you may find Church of England parish marriage records, like in colonial Virginia, Catholic church marriages, Lutheran...
Do you have any ancestors who were lucky? Perhaps things always seemed to go their way or perhaps they really did win the lottery. Such was the case with John Royston’s orphan. Not only was this individual lucky in the land draw, but I was also lucky that this record...
Have you ever researched a friend, associate, or neighbor to figure out how they were related to your research subject? Often, a marriage bondsman is related to the bride or groom, so researching them may prove a fruitful avenue of research. In my last post, I shared several examples of...
Have you ever encountered a marriage bond in your genealogy research? I have used them quite a bit in my research in the mid-south. Today I’m sharing information about marriage bonds and several examples. One of our podcast listeners submitted a question about bondsmen, asking what it meant for a...
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