Free Historical Land Patent Information

During the course of researching my wife’s genealogy I had discovered that one of her ancestors, Ferdinand Petri, had patented some land in the 1800′s. Guess what? The government comes to the rescue with a free web site where if you know the state in which the land was patented and the name of who [...]

T.D. Bradley

I guess if you look hard enough, you can find just about anything. In my previous post I said I didn’t have any information about Timothy D. Bradley who was married to Charlotta Knickerbocker. Well, if you look at the 1880 History of Morrow County and Ohio web page, you will find this: T. D. [...]

Paperback Writer

Another cool free search I use quite a bit is the Google book search. For example, one of my ancestors is “Prudence Beadle” ( Married to William Knickerbocker). If you paste “Prudence Beadle” ( with the quotes) into the Google book search engine, one of the links you get returned is for: Samuel Beadle Family: [...]