Your ancestor was baptised on 2 February 1730/31 — what does the slash mean?
If you have ever met a date like **12 March 1745/6** in a parish register or a will, you have met the calendar change that quietly trips up British and colonial
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…It was her genealogical research started in the 1930s that developed our family history back to Illinois in the 1850s…
The Cousin Who Kept the Name
…General Kroesen has been researching his branch of the family for many years, I believe since about 1960, and as…
About the book
…I (Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1998) — the family's own published genealogy of the 1600s, drawn from the Manhattan and Brooklyn…
Two Witnesses at the Font
…Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical…
Ten Faces, Circa 1890
…It is not that the family's researchers looked and found nothing; it is that no one has looked. The…
