Linda B. Cole

Archive for August, 2005

Great luck at Ancestry.com

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

I tried a two week trial membership at ancestry.com and found loads of census records on my family lines. The SSDI was also a pretty good source of information. The One World Tree doesn’t yeild much of anything but I understand it is still more of a beta than anything else. Perhaps [...]

An Eighth Grade Education in 1895

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
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