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Weekly Blog Update - 6 February 2016
Summary of new content on our blogs--with a few additional features thrown in.

We've been sending these weekly updates out free to quite a few, but costs in the new year mean that we will have to narrow down the list --see below for details...

Includes:
  • New  Rootdig Content
  • New  Genealogy Tip of the Day Content
  • New  Search Tip of the Day Content
  • Letter of the Week
  • Tombstone of the Week
  • Casefile Clues Update
  • Citation of the Week
  • How to keep getting this newsletter after this issue
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Recent Articles on Rootdig



Photograph of the week
This is one of the few older photographs I have that is somewhat informal. At least I don't have many from this era taken with the clothes on the line in the background.

We've included citation and provenance information as a part of the image. That's something that is important to do with each and every picture.  


Citation of the Week

Letters of Guardianship [copy] issued to Daniel Severns, November term Fulton County, Illinois Court, William S. Shores (D. Severns [Guardian]), minor's application no. 141497, certificate no. 129525; service of John Shores (Pvt. Co. G, 85thIll. Vol. Inf., Civil War); Case Files of Approved Pension Applications 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Genealogy Tip of the Day
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A is for Alphabetical

Do you check lists of names in tax and early census records to make certain they are not in partial alphabetical order? If they are, then some geographical clues have been stripped from the records. Or maybe people live in alphabetical order. 
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Genealogy Search Tip



Can You Read It?

These signatures 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

Elliott Grove Cemetery in Chariton County's Brunswick Township is the final resting place of Elzy Lake who served in a Union Civil War unit from that same state. This military marker is the only stone on Lake's grave and will be the subject of an upoming blog post on Rootdig.
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