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New Jersey Vital Records Requests
I had really good luck requesting records in New Jersey, the state archivist was super helpful and provided me with 30 pages of my great great grandparents divorce records. We’ll talk later about the emotional weight of 30 pages of testimony that undoubtedly represented significant generational trauma for (I’m counting literally thousands of living descendants)……
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Video Tour of Paterson
I’m pleased to share with you Discover the Historic Paterson NJ and its great Falls. I really appreciated Jose’s footage of these touristy areas
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Nellie is Helen, I knew it!
So excited today! I finally laid my hands on a marriage document that totally confirms what I suspected all along – Nellie Brown, the woman listed as the wife of William E and the mother of Margaret C in the New Jersey 1905 census, is undeniably Helen MacDonald. This is how I pieced it all…