Tue, Dec 7, 2004, 9:50pm (EST+5) (Dave=A0Hinz)
says:
snip being able to find records online from, say, 1358, is impressive.

Highly. My mother is researching our family. We do know we had
people (father's side) on both sides of the Civil War, including one in
Andersonvlle, and one in the prison in New York. Very hard to find
records anywhere, as people will have different spellings, different
dates, and even different birth locations listed.

Example: Birth certificate has date, location of birth (town,
county), and name Marriage certificate (and it is know it's the same
person), different spelling. Death certificate, often has different
spelling, different date of birth, and it is still the same person.
Then finding where they are actually buried is a different task
altogether.

She has reliably been able to get back to about 1900, after that
records are very hazy. We do know my dad's relatives came from Ireland.
Many of them probably came thru NC, to TN and KY. Seems some others
came thru NY, down to VA, NC, etc. On my mother's side, they seem to
have been Dutch and English. She has a very interesting diary of one in
the Civil War, out west. Neat read.



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