Ancestral Findings

The 1890 US federal census is missing. There's nothing we can do about that. There is, though, a way we can still find information on our relatives from this time period, even without it. In fact, the...

29 Jan 20214min

There are several good substitutes for the 1890 US federal census. Just because it is gone does not mean you can't find out what your ancestors were doing during that time, or the twenty years between...

28 Jan 20214min

Genealogical ephemera can be wonderfully useful in filling in the gaps left by the absence of the 1890 US federal census. You can find ephemera of all kinds in your grandma's attic, in local archives ...

27 Jan 20214min

Old newspaper records are one of the best substitutes for the 1890 census, which was destroyed in a fire in the 1930s. The absence of this census is often frustrating to genealogists. But, there are a...

26 Jan 20214min

In WWII, one young soldier named Horace Greasley braved a barrage of Nazi soldiers most every night to break out of his prisoner of war camp to meet up with the woman he loved. Each night, he would br...

25 Jan 20217min

What Were Your Ancestors Doing in the 1770s? The 1770s were a decade of innovations, inventions, and political change in the world, and particularly in the British colonies in North America, which wer...

22 Jan 20214min

What Were Your Ancestors Doing in the 1780s? The 1780s were a decade of transition from the Age of Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution. It was big on philosophy, laying the foundations of moder...

21 Jan 20214min

Vermont is our 14th state, the first to join the nation after the Revolution. It also spent some time as an independent nation. Here's Vermont's story… Show Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/vermon...

20 Jan 20215min