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Old Photo:  Charlie STEDMAN    Sioux City, IA  
(to Mrs. F. B. SIMONS   Lowville, NY)


Rules of Thumb
Our Calendar and Its History:
By Jove! From the Julian to the Gregorian
Query Letter Writing:
Keep these tips in mind
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Seven' Deadly Sins: Good advice to genealogists!
Surname Affixes:  Surname beginnings have meanings
Surname Suffixes: Surname endings have meanings


Looking in Out-of-the-Way Places
College Society Memberships: The Philorhetorean
Missing Persons: From Australia, with Love
My New Name Is ... Court-Approved Name Changes, 1803-1870
Statistically Speaking
: New York State Annual Register, 1833
 

Research in Reverse 
Message in a Bottle: Various Ways of Locating Distant Living Cousins
Occupations: Just what was an avenator in the old days?


Newspaper Records

Old Houses of the North Country:  Watertown Daily Times (Jefferson County) 
Sketches: Sandy Creek News 
(Oswego County - 1845 census)

 

 

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