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Dolly Parton Day: Could Your Ancestors Read and Write? Check the 1900 Census
Dolly Parton Day is September 25 and celebrate by checking the 1900 census literacy columns on Ancestry. See whether your ancestors could read and write.
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Kindle Rewards BONUS: 2x Points Today and an Apostrophe Your Ancestor Never Got
Kindle Rewards BONUS: 2x Kindle Points on Kindle books today, September 24, 2026, National Punctuation Day. Terms apply. Genealogy books and punctuation gifts inside.
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National Punctuation Day: Transcription Errors That Hide Your Ancestor From Every Search
National Punctuation Day is September 24. Learn how transcription errors, misread abbreviations, and stray apostrophes hide ancestors in genealogy indexes, and how wildcard and Soundex searches find them.
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Typhoid Mary and Tracing Irish Domestic Servants in the Census
Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was a cook in other people’s houses. Here’s how to find your Irish domestic servant ancestors in the census, enumerated under a stranger’s roof.
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The Emancipation Proclamation: Crossing the 1870 Wall in African-American Research
The Emancipation Proclamation freed millions, but the 1870 census was the first to name them. Here’s how to cross the 1870 Wall using Freedmen’s Bureau labor contracts and slaveholder probate inventories.
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First Telephone Exchanges: Using City and Telephone Directories as an Annual Census
First Telephone Exchanges: City and telephone directories placed your family at an address every single year. Here’s how to use them as an annual census between federal enumerations.
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Chicago Fire Genealogy: Rebuild an Ancestor’s Paper Trail After a Disaster
Chicago Fire Genealogy: Records burned in the 1871 fire, but evidence survived. Use newspapers, the Sam Fink index, directories, and church registers to rebuild.
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Ancestry Fall Sale 2026 Is Live: 50% OFF Eligible 6-Month and 1-Year Memberships and 65% OFF Eligible AncestryDNA Kits
Ancestry Fall Sale 2026 is live: 50% OFF eligible 6-month memberships and 65% OFF eligible AncestryDNA kits through Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. EDT
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Mom Doubled Her Coupons. Now It’s Your Turn (Kindle 3x Rewards Edition)
Mom Doubled Her Coupons. Now It’s Your Turn (Kindle 3x Rewards Edition) 3x Kindle Points on Kindle books October 6 and 7, 2026, during Prime Big Deal Days.