“The Andrew Jackson 5″

I was showing my daughter the cover that I’m making for my Andrew Jackson Stephens binder.  My son – who is a graphic designer – created the outline of a tree with the silhouettes of 5 men in the tree. When she looked at the image, she told me that the 5 shadows looked like a “boy [...]

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Piecing it Together

I’ve always said that I tend to make better discoveries whenever I reorganize information into a different format.  Whether it’s putting together an Excel file or a Research Plan or whatever, I usually see something that I’ve had in my notes forever, but never was able to see the significance for. So I’m loving this [...]

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Tracking the Andrews

As my binder grows with printouts, I can see that I know more about the various Andrews than I thought I did when I began the binder. I’ve had alot of “oh yeah! – now I remember!” moments. I think I’m going to create a separate page on this blog to keep a table of [...]

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Pension Index Differences

Last night’s notebook “assignment” was to transcribe the Civil War Pension file that I have for Andrew J. Stephens and to organize the different Pension Index Cards and Compiled Service Record print outs so that I can have the right records with the correct Andrew. The Pension File was only 8 pages long, so that [...]

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The “Andrew Stephens” Project Progress

Today, I’m beginning my binder.  My first step is to begin printing the various “organization” files I have and to begin putting them in the binder.  For example, I have an Excel spreadsheet in which I had created a timeline of census records for each of my Andrews.  Imagine my surprise when I opened the [...]

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A Project to Work on

As my health is starting to improve, I’m getting the urge to get back into my research, but when I think about digging in again, I get overwhelmed. My medication effects my memory as well and I don’t want to “waste” time re-searching for documents or other information. So I’m trying to think of a [...]

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Seeing Double?

I’ve been researching Andrew Jackson Stephens for years.  It’s long been a irritation of mine that I cannot find him in the 1870 census.  The other day, I decided to take a look at his neighbors in the 1860 census to see if I could find any names that I recognize and by golly, I [...]

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Andrew J. Stephens Military Mix-Up

I recently decided to re-examine a military pension file that I have for Andrew J. Stephens.  His pension packet is relatively small – only 8 pages.  When I ordered it, I was hoping to find that this was my GGG-grandfather, but instead found that this was another Andrew who had married my GG-Grandmother, Victoria Coffey. [...]

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Surfing for Surprises!

This morning, I had a couple of free hours before taking a trip to my mother’s where I’ll have no internet access.  Well, that’s not exactly true.  She has dial up access, which means waiting quite a while for pages to load.  But I digress… I didn’t want to get out a bunch of binders [...]

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Metcalfe County, Missouri Stephens Families

I really enjoy reading Randy Seaver’s blog at http://www.geneamusings.com.  I find it educational as well as entertaining!  Last May, Randy posted a list of databases at Ancestry.com that don’t have name indexes.  http://www.geneamusings.com/2010/05/finding-ancestrycom-databases-without.html There very first database on the list was the Missouri Still Birth & Miscellaneous Records, 1805-2002.  Because I haven’t had alot of luck [...]

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