Posted in Civil War on Jun 19th, 2008
Art. 6227. MORTUARY WARRANT. Whenever any pensioner who has been regularly placed upon the pension rolls under the provisions of law relating thereto shall die, and proof thereof shall be made to the Comptroller within forty (40) days from the date of such death by the affidavit of the doctor who attended the pensioner [...]
Posted in Civil War on Jun 19th, 2008
On June 12, I sent an email to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission requesting a copy of the Confederate Pension Application File of my great-great-great grandmother Sarah Jane Carroll (John Bunyan Carroll). The process is quite simple: search the database, if you find an ancestor, just send an email to the address given [...]
Posted in research sites, technology on Jun 3rd, 2008
But first, a vague sense of panic is slowly engulfing my soul… I found out this evening that the Texas Death Index, 1890-1976 has disappeared from the FamilySearch Record Search site! This database has been a major, huge, gigantic, stupendous….resource for me, as I have literally oodles of ancestors who died in Texas during that [...]
Posted in cemeteries, research sites on May 4th, 2008
I was reading a post at Beyond Fiction, in which Ken discussed finding the death records at FamilySearch Labs’ Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 database of a set of twins born to his paternal grandmother in 1927. This inspired me to go back to the database to look for 2 infants that I knew to be [...]
Posted in Happy Dance Time! on May 3rd, 2008
One of the first death certificates that I obtained when I first began to research my family tree was that of my great-grandmother, Ruth (Carroll) Carr. Her father, as listed on the death certificate, was John Spurgeon. A bit of research indicated that his name was actually John Spurgeon Carroll. The lesson here is that [...]
Posted in research sites on Apr 16th, 2008
Family Search Labs has added the index to Texas Deaths, 1890-1976! I have so many ancestors who died in Texas during that time period….I don’t even know where to start! I have just done a few quick searches and have already found about 30 records. Now these are just the indexes, not the actual documents. [...]
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