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Mail Order Brides: A History of Love in the Wild West |
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During the initial American settling of the western part of North America, it was mainly men who went out there. They went to look for gold, to start homestead farms and ranches, and to begin new lives where resources were plentiful, spaces were wide and open, and there was a lot more freedom than back east. However the many single men who went west soon found themselves to be lonely. They may
have had male friends nearby, or maybe they didn’t. Either way, it was no substitute for having female companionship. Only a small number of men brought wives and/or families with them. The number of single women in the west was negligible (there were a few, but far from enough to go around compared to the men who went there on their own). It wasn’t long before men started to think of creative ways to get wives without having to travel away from their land and risk it being claimed or taken over
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Do you find it difficult to stop doing genealogy research once you get started? Here are 5 time management techniques to help you control your research time.
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How to Make Your Written Family History More Exciting |
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If you decide to write and publish your family history, you must decide if you just want those who share your common ancestors to read it, or if you want to sell it to a wider audience. A family history for a wider audience has to be more than just names, dates, and places. Here’s how to inject some fascinating readability into your family history that will make it more appealing to a wide
audience.
While most written and published family histories are meant for just members of that family to read, or those that share a common ancestor if it is a particularly long family history, there have been some that have gone on the market as big sellers to a wider, general audience. What makes the difference between a family history that gets a few sales from people related to the ancestors mentioned in
the book and one that a large, public audience wants to read? The main difference is excitement. Just about any family history can become a good seller on the general book market if it has some excitement in it...
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This Week’s Free Genealogy Lookups |
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Veteran's schedules were forms that the census takers had with them when they were taking the regular population count. In 1890, these extra veterans' schedules were meant only to record information about Union soldiers and their widows.
This resource includes information gathered from a great variety of sources including muster and pay rolls, historical essays, biographies, meeting minutes, correspondence, land records, and town records.
Within the index you can find approximately 104,000 individuals from Maryland and Delaware who contributed in some fashion as patriots to support the freedom of the American colonies from the rule of Great Britain.
The materials date from 1861 to 1865 and follow the military careers of Massachusetts servicemen and their commanding officers. Together, the military records in these volumes reference approximately 140,000 individuals... names of nearly all men who served in Massachusetts units during the Civil War appear.
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Here are some sources you should be using in your genealogical research. Some are free and some are fee-based. I’ll continue to make updates to this page so you may want to bookmark for future reference and convenience. Genealogy slideshows are a great way to preserve and share
your family’s memories. Display them on your family’s website or play them at holidays and special events! Let me create a professional slideshow that documents the most important people in your life. Click Here |
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