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From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <>
Subject: Re: [HACKETT-L] Hacketts in New Haven, CT, and elsewhere in US
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:38:04 -0400


To those new to genealogy or to those who have
been struggling for a long time with just family stories and
records and/or what you find on the Internet--
maybe it is time to learn to use actual records
found in archives and libraries!
This is especially helpful for people with 19th
century immigrant ancestors, such as Irish Hacketts to
America in mid-century. You can learn names, relationships,
approximate ages, year of marriage, year of immigration,
addresses, occupations, worth of possessions, country or
state of birth, literacy, home status, and birthplace of parents
(not all on each census but an interesting mix of things) by
doing your census work in an organized way from 1920 back
to time of immigration.
Check Cyndislist for exhaustive information on
the census and where to see it all over the country.
Even those with the old New England lines can
find out new things from the census. Just yesterday in a
New York village where my ancestors lived for over two
centuries, the census told me about an inter-racial marriage
between a relative and a Japanese man in 1897; about how
the Irish serving maid who worked away her youth for one of
my families, eventually became the second wife after the man
was widowed; and that one man thought to have left no heirs
may have had a family in Illinois before dying and being buried
back in NY. I have been researching these people for 14 years,
but there is always something more to learn from the census.


Elizabeth with no Hacketts in America


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