Family Tree: Thespian Roots
This weekend I will be performing in a production of Little Shop of Horrors at The Belfry Theater...
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Family Tree: Searching the Web
Most genealogy education is focused on using specific databases or collections, and there is often...
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Family Tree: Get It Published!
This is just a portion of the tree I created years ago on Ancestry.com Right now in Salt Lake...
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Family Tree: The Irish Beyond Indy
We talked about the Irish in Indianapolis in a previous post, where we learned that any of you...
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Family Tree: Maiden Names
Women at an Indianpolis Cotton Mill, August 1908. Image via Library of Congress, LOT 7479, v. 1,...
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Family Tree: The First Census
Two hundred and twenty-three years ago, on March 1, 1790, Congress passed the First Census Act....
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Family Tree: No Love Sincerer
Cover of a cookbook compiled by Marie Wanee Schuster”There is no love sincerer than the love...
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Family Tree: DNA (Part 1)
I recently purchased two DNA kits. One was from Ancestry DNA, a part of the larger Ancestry.com....
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Family Tree: Scrapbooks
If you know me, then you know that I’m a scrapbooker. That’s right, I scrapbook, and...
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Family Tree: The Indiana Girl’s School
In 1869, Indiana established the first detention facility in the country that was exclusively for...
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Family Tree: Our Female Ancestors
My great-granmother, Anna Buttchen, and her sister, Lizzie. As family historians, we often focus...
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Family Tree: A City of Immigrants
Whether they came from Germany, Ireland, Asia, or South America, odds are that at least some of...
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Family Tree: Irish in Indianapolis
Poster recruiting workers for the Central Canal, via the Indiana Historical Society As a few HI...
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Family Tree: Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Much has been written on this site and elsewhere about Indianapolis’s German influences....
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Putting It Together
So far we’ve dug through census records, searched cemeteries, and combed through military...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Wills & Probate Records
This application for administration from Clinton County shows that the deceased died without a...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Church Records
Photo of First Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis by the Detroit Publishing Co., via the Library...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: City Directories
The tile page from the 1858-1859 Indianapolis City Directory, via IUPUI City directories may be...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Discovering Your Family’s Heroes
My grandfather, Merle Longwell (2nd from the left), with his WWII service buddies. Earlier this...
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Kickstart Your Family Tree: Newspapers
Up to this point, we’ve been focusing on the basic facts (the names, dates, and places) of...
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