Nancy Hendrickson's Ancestor News
One bit of information on a death record can throw open the doors to even your toughest research problem. At least that was the case for me. Although I’d searched at length for information on my great-great-grandparents, I made little progress until I ordered my great-grandfather’s death records. What was the clue? His mother’s maiden [...]
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I just ordered a book called Giants in the Cornfield, the story of the 27th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. I ordered it when I discovered that an ancestor, Mike Keller (my genealogy software tells me that Mike was my great-granduncle) served in this regiment. As always, I started thinking about how hard it [...]
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Not long ago I wrote about receiving my grandmother’s wedding dress, and my concerns over its preservation. To learn more about preservation, I spoke with Aimee Newell, Curator of Textiles and Fine Arts at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. The village, which occupies 200-acres, contains collections, exhibits, and programs of everyday life in a small [...]
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