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Weekly Blog Update - 8 July 2016
Summary of new content on our blogs--with a few additional features thrown in.


Includes:
  • New  Rootdig Content
  • New  Genealogy Tip of the Day Content
  • New  Search Tip of the Day Content
  • Letter of the Week
  • Join Michael in Ft. Wayne!
  • Tombstone of the Week
  • Casefile Clues Update
  • Citation of the Week
  • How to keep getting this newsletter
Recent Articles on Rootdig
Join Michael in Ft. Wayne, Indiana
I'll have having my annual group research trip to one of the largest genealogical libraries in the nation: the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 

Photograph of the week
   

Find out before you go to the courthouse if they will let you take digital pictures of the record books. Some will and some won't

Practice with your camera at home first to make certain you know how to take, save, manipulate, and archive your images before that trip. 

Citation of the Week

Hancock County, Illinois, Circuit Court, Chancery Records Box 213, Johann M. Habben vs. Antje J. Fecht, et al., Bill of Complaint, filed 2 October 1878; Circuit Clerk's Office, Carthage.
U is for Undertaker's Records

Some undertakers maintain old records of their business and those records may have information about your ancestor that was not put on his tombstone or in her obituary. Remember that undertaker's records are private business records that do not have to be shared with the public, so ask politely and courteously.
Can You Read It?

This signature appeared recently in our Genealogy Transcriber Blog .

You can get these reading challenges daily in your email by subscribing on the Genealogy Transcriber Blog.
Casefile Clues Update

The latest issue of  Casefile Clues  analyzes an 1889 will from a German immigrant, focusing on what the will says, what it does not, and where research should go next. 

You can learn more about Casefile Clues on our website or our blog.

Casefile Clues discusses genealogy methodology in clear, organized, and to-the-point prose. 

If you'd like to learn methods and sources without the long winded academic prose, give us a try!

Tombstone of the Week

Make certain when visiting a cemetery that you walk all over and look for stones that are either down or were flat stones to begin with.

A quick walk over only looking for "what's standing up" may cause you to miss these stones.
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