Heartland Genealogy

In your genealogy research, have you ever suspected a relationship but never could find evidence to support your suspicions? Well that...

Do you use a list of FAN (Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors) club names when researching county records for your family? If so, do you ever ...

Garrard County, Kentucky Deeds 1787-1902; indexes, 1899-1960 Vol. C 1793-1796 Family Search DGS 183284 Film 008141322 Book C page 554 ...

Have you tested your DNA? If so, have you been able to break through a brick wall using your DNA results? My main purpose for testing my ...

Do you ever re-look at a document and discover a new clue? That was my experience when a 4th cousin sent me a copy of a letter - a letter th...

Do you ever feel like you are going in circles when it comes to records? That's how I'm feeling with my research of Isaac Crawford w...

1. Anne Crawford was the child of James Crawford and Rebecca Anderson. 1 She was born about 1780. She was also known as Anne Creath. ...

(Report created from RootsMagic using the Narrative Report feature) 1. James Crawford was born in 1758 in Augusta, Commonweath of Virg...

Have you ever just stumbled across something that others may seem minor when it provides major clues. That's what happened yesterday whe...

Do you have a brick wall? Does that brick wall involve identifying the father of an ancestor? At some point, many of us face such a brick wa...

As part of my CRAWFORD research, I'm trying to determine whether the Isaac Crawford of Jefferson County, Indiana is the same Isaac Crawf...

Have you ever encountered some random information in a Facebook post that led you to look for additional records? That was my experience rec...

I'm trying to figure out whether the Isaac Crawford and wife Nancy of Jefferson County, Indiana are the Isaac Crawford who married Nancy...

Garrard County Kentucky Index to deeds, 1797-1935; deeds, 1797-1866; births, 1789-1801 Deeds, Vols. N-O 1838-1843 FS Film 183247 DGS 856...

Is something causing Ancestry's hinting system to merge people of the same name? I'm in the process of trying to disprove severa...

Have you ever seen names on documents and wondered how they fit into your tree? That's my situation right now with the SELLERS family! ...

Have you ever looked at a court document trying to figure out who all of the people are and suddenly realize you may have stumbled across so...

Garrard County Kentucky Deed Book A page 690 - 691 This Indenture made this 21st day of January 1803 between Richard Cave & Elizabe...

Have you used city directories to help locate a person between census years? Although I'm not finding as much detail in tax lists, I am ...

What's your 'go-to' record type to try and identify people? For me, that resource is land records. I've recently been usin...