Welcome to the tenth
edition of our bi-weekly feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty
bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family
history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check
out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything genealogical!
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Though the 1950 US
census will not be released until 2022, the Morse One-Step website is starting
its preparations to have location tools created in advance (as was done for the
1940 census). Read more about this project and how you can help here. Thanks to Dick Eastman for letting us know about this
exciting project.
Have ancestors or
distant cousins who ended up “down under?”
You’ll be excited to check out the new online database for
Cohabitation registers are so important to African American research! They are some of the few records created
right after the Civil War that reflect pre-emancipation unions. The Library of Virginia has added Scott
County and Washington County to its cohabitation
register digitization project. Read more about this
project.
Sometimes it’s hard
to remember how much life has changed since the 1970s! Two recent articles remind us of some of
these significant changes. Ten things an Irish
woman could not do in 1970 (and be prepared to cringe...) and then 10 Things That
American Women Could Not Do Before the 1970s.
Anyone researching
emigrant ancestors knows that oaths of allegiance can be powerful tools,
whether connected to military service, naturalization paperwork, etc. Genealogy
Decoded recently did a post about Pennsylvania Oaths
of Allegiance 1727-1775 and the neat information they can
contain and the availability of a digitized version of a published volume via Hathi Trust.
How often
have you struggled to figure out all the ways a name might be spelled, a place
name pronounced, etc.? Understanding
language helps us as we try to decipher the myriad spellings we stumble
across. After sharing this with my
linguist daughter, I thought you might find it helpful also -- North American English Dialects,
Based on Pronunciation Patterns.
Do check out the map!
Recognizing that many people we are researching died before vital records came
into being, the Arkansas History Commission is doing something to help fill
that void. There is now a database In
Remembrance: An Electronic Index of Arkansas Deaths, 1819-1920. It provide researchers with the location of
death records in early Arkansas, whether in church publications, cemetery
records, mortality censuses, newspaper obituaries, or county and local records
from the Arkansas History Commission’s extensive holdings.
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