Friday Find
When you transcribe a document, do you transcribe the entire document word for word or do you look for the pertinant parts and ignore the… Read More »Friday Find
When you transcribe a document, do you transcribe the entire document word for word or do you look for the pertinant parts and ignore the… Read More »Friday Find
Did you ever use microfilm to access county deed records? If so, do you have photocopies made from those deeds? Are they legible? As I’m… Read More »Friday Find
Today’s find is a deed resulting from court intervention to partition land in Platte county after the death of Elizabeth Burke. Platte County MissouriDeed Records,… Read More »Friday Find
My BURKE folder contains another deed for Elizabeth Burke. In this deed, she is selling land to Mathew M. Blan (her brother). Platte County, MissouriDeed… Read More »Friday Find
My BURKE folder contains a photocopy and partial transcription of a deed where Elizabeth Burke purchases the South half of the southwest quarter of Section… Read More »Friday Find
While working with a BURKE court case, I started digging around in my Burke and BLAND files and uncovered photocopies of pages from the book,… Read More »Friday Find
Have you encountered a court record that identifies multiple generations of descendants? Several years ago, I accepted an Ancestry ‘story’ hint for Henry Burke. This… Read More »Burke Court Record
Don’t you love a good obituary? I know that I love it when I find one that identifies many family members. My recent find doesn’t… Read More »Clues
Do you ever feel like you’ve barely scratched the service when researching a branch of your tree? That’s what it feels like for my research… Read More »John Burke
Have you ever tried to find the source of a newspaper clipping shared as an image on Ancestry? While updating my research for my 4th… Read More »Chasing Documents