Limited Time Free Webinar: "Midwestern & Plains States Level Census Records" presented by Paula Stuart-Warren

2 of my 3 Genetic Communities (as determined by AncestryDNA) are part of the Midwestern United States (as defined by the Census Bureau)!  I've looked at various state censuses over the years, but it is always nice to get a refresher on what they can offer for research.

I definitely have a lot of Deep South and New England ancestry, but the most recent one appears to be Midwest.  My direct ancestors lived in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota (barely), Missouri (barely), and Ohio, but I also have a million cousins and collaterals who have lived there as well as Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Paula Stewart-Warren presented "Midwestern and Plains States Level Census Records" on October 25, 2017 (free to non-subscribers of Legacy Family Tree Webinars through November 1, 2017):

Many Midwestern and Plains states have superb state census records. Learn about the indexes, the many personal details these censuses include, locating the censuses, and alternate sources. The lecture includes many specific examples from these enumerations, provides an overview of state censuses for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and indicates where they may be found. Does your state have a 1945 state census? The personal details vary but may include names of children, maiden names, military service, religious denomination, mother of how many children, occupation, value of real estate, and other helpful details.

1 hour 38 minutes

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Fantastic Find: Maps from "Territorial evolution of the United States" Wikipedia article by user:Golbez

I had ancestors in Indiana and the surrounding areas at this time.  "Map of the change to the United States in central North America on December 11, 1816," By Golbez - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44551106

When I was viewing Amie Bowser Tennant's recent webinar, "Secrets and Clues Hidden in the 1790-1840 U.S. Censuses" (only available to suscribers of Legacy Family Tree Webinars), I was interested in the great maps she included of what states were part of the census at any given time.  Thankfully Tennant provided a citation to the sources, and one I didn't recognize was from a user at Wikicommons with the username Golbez.  On further inspection I see that he has provided an huge number of customized maps in the history of the expansion of the United States in a Wikipedia article "Territorial evolution of the United States".

This is a nice set of maps pertaining to the territorial evolution of the United States.  If you have any amount of American history in your genealogy you might appreciate the visualizations.



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Celebrations: International Women's Day - 2017

There have always been strong, competent women. Here are some American ones.

[Ambrotype: Inscription on paper in case: Lucretia E. aged 2[?] Crossett, Louisa E. aged 18 yr. 8 m.[?] in Lawrence, Massachusetts by Alfred Hall. 1859. Source: Liljenquist Family collection, Library of Congress]

[Sojourner Truth, Eastern District, Michigan, 1864.

Source:The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, Washington, D.C.]

[These daughters of ranchman Joseph M. Chrisman took homesteads, timber claims, and preemption claims in the Goheen Settlement. Pictured from left to right are: Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie, Ruth on Lieban (Lillian) Creek, Custer County, Nebraska, 1886.

Source: Nebraska State Historical Society]

[Women electric welders at Hog Island shipyard, ca1918. The first women to be engaged in actual ship construction in the US.

Source: Library of Congress]

[First WAVES Machine Gun Instructors. Sp (G) 3/c Florence Johnson and Sp (G) 3/c Rosamund Small, the first WAVES [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] to qualify as instructor on electrically operated 50-caliber machine gun turrets, walk to the target range, Naval Air Gunners School, Hollywood, Florida., 04/11/1944. Source: Library of Congress]

[Traditional Navajo weaver, Arizona - 1953, from my personal collection]

[Bernice E. Grenfell Currey, Encanto, from my personal collection]

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