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From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Re: HACKETT-D Digest V98 #106
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:25:28 -0400


Kym wrote: > My father-in-law knows very little about his family,
especially his
maternal line. His mother was Gladys Hackett, and her father was Everett.
My
father-in-law remembers that his maternal grandfather spoke with an Irish
accent, but he doesn't know where in Ireland the old man came from. They
were
Catholics who settled in east-central Wisconsin. <

Kym, You can do almost all research by mail, in a library, and through
lookups by people you meet on-line. If you have collected all the
information you can from the family, the next step is to do your US census
work [as long as the family was here by 1920]. This can be done in many
places in the US.
When you get to needing vital records, you can write to Wisconsin
for them. Same with church records.

To the person who also wrote today about how she had failed to
check for a tombstone in Canada: Don't feel bad. We all make those
mistakes in our rush to do research in Europe. The joke is that there are
far more records available here than in Ireland, for instance. So do check
North America or wherever you immigrated to first.

Elizabeth W. Knowlton

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