“He was excited. Excited and happy, like a dog which has followed a cold trail for a long time, and suddenly finds it a hot one.” Nurse Detective Hilda Adams about Inspector Patton 68 Research in tax records has produced this reaction of excitement for many genealogists and has resulted in many “hot trails.” A[…]Read more
(Excerpted from Unpuzzling Your Past. Fourth Edition, Updated, by Emily Anne Croom, pp. 37-39.) Naming practices vary from place to place and generation to generation. However, certain consistencies have existed for nearly four centuries in the area we now call the United States. Children were, and still are, often named for parents, grandparents, and other[…]Read more
