Do you have a record in your files that you believe should lead you to more records? That's my case with a Woodson County, Kansas deed for Thurston K. Wells. Woodson County KansasDeeds Book G, Page 324 Image 12 on FS film 1428638 United States of AmericaHomestead Certificate No 1316Application 2986 To all to whom …
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Provenance
Do you have a family scrapbook, photo album or Bible in your possession? If so, have you documented how you obtained ownership of the item(s)? While most of the photo albums, funeral books and family Bibles were passed down to me by my grandmothers, I am encountering an issue where I need to document the …
Friday Find
Daisy Pearl Ricketts Isreal - K88F-NLR Do you have any funeral books in your collections? Both of my grandmothers seemed to not only keep obituary clippings but also funeral books. Thus, my genealogy files contain both the obituary clipping and the funeral book for one of my great grandaunts, Daisy Pearl Ricketts. Daisy Pearl was …
Friday Find
Do you have obituary clippings in your files? If so, have you identified all of them? As I was going thru my RICKETTS notebook, I found a clipping for Mrs. Adele Freeman. Freeman Services Held Funeral Services for Mrs. Adele Freeman, 617 West fifth Ave., who died Sunday in St. Mary's Hospital, were held Tuesday …
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Richmond F. Hammond's Marriage Records 1867 - Married Sarah Ralston Knox County IllinoisCounty ClerkGalesburg, IL 61401 Marriage License: 7081 The People of the state of IllinoisTo any regular minister of the Gospel, authorized to Marry by theChurch or Society to which he belongs; any Justice of the Supreme Court ; anyJudge of any Inferior Court …
Black Sunday
Going back to my notebook of items received from Mildred Barby is an interesting article that has nothing to do with BRILES genealogy. However, it tells of an event that greatly impacted the western parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Black Sunday Worst of Dust Bowl's storms was 50 years ago Guymon, Okla (AP) Rain …
Nelson G. Crawford
One of my January blog posts was about how I was finding issues in my family tree that was causing me to go back over some of my research. While I listed several issues, a faithful reader provided another reason in a comment: new records now available online While working with 'suggestions' on WikiTree, I …
Friday Finds
Ottawa HeraldDec. 28, 1966page 8 Clipping in materials received from Mildred (Briles) Barby DeathsJohn C. Briles John Charles Briles, 73, retired farmer of rural Pomona, died at 2 p.m. Tuesday, in Broomfield, Colo., at the home of a daughter, where he had been visiting for a week.Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at the …
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Ottawa HeraldJune 15, 1976page 6-A Clipping in materials received from Mildred (Briles) Barby From Broil to Broyles to Broles to BrilesBy Joan IstasThe year was 1717. Johannes Broil had just come to America from Alsace, Germany.He located in Germanna Colony in Virginia and he started a line of descendants that changed the name of Broil …
Kansas Newspapers
When Kansas was not yet 15 years old, the attendees of the 1875 Kansas Editors' and Publishers' Convention formed the Kansas State Historical Society "for the purpose of saving the present and past records" of Kansas history. One of the first goals of this society was to collect and preserve the NEWSPAPERS of the state. …