Cold genealogy, finding random ancestors
Scholefield Family Tree Pushing back through the years may confirm the findings from the Arizona Vital Records regarding Armour, Helen, and Carl. As we trace the family back, the 1920 Census of Rosemont Precinct, Pima, Arizona, does not provide information about George and Clara’s children because the two are the only members of the household. … Read more
Scholefield Family Tree Anyone working with people who were born or died in the early part of the 1900s in Arizona will find themselves in luck. The Arizona Department of Health Services has scanned birth and death records and placed them online. Since Geo. P. and Clara A. Scholefield were in their 60s in 1930, if … Read more
Scholefield Family Tree My first cold case for the internet: How random can you get? Instead of just randomly clicking in an Ancestry.com window, I decided to be a bit less random. I wanted to begin by working with a family that had a local connection. However, there were few people who lived in the … Read more
This blog is a place for us to find random dead by conducting “cold genealogy*” for families who are not related to our own. The term is appropriate becase we approach a case knowing absolutely nothing about the family we are researching. Whomever we randomly choose, we will use resources available online and present research bits as we … Read more