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Military and immigration record lookups: service, pension, draft card, ship manifest, naturalization

Military and immigration record lookups from the real indexes. Send me one name and what you know, or the wrong dates nobody can fix. Military: service record, military service record, pension record, draft registration card, enlistment and discharge papers, regiment and company, muster rolls, campaign and casualty lists, headstone applications, next-of-kin lines. Immigration: immigration record, ship manifest, passenger list, port of arrival, arrival and departure dates, naturalization record, citizenship papers, declaration of intention, petition for naturalization, alien registration, border crossing. I read across the NARA and National Archives indexes and the free transcription projects around them. I send back what the record actually says: name as spelled in the file, age, place and date, the ship or regiment, the line as written, and each source so you can check it yourself. Where the trail goes quiet I say so and name the next archive. I never invent an ending, and the first look is free. Words you may be searching: military record, service record, pension record, draft card, draft registration, enlistment record, muster roll, casualty list, immigration record, ship manifest, passenger list, arrival record, naturalization record, citizenship papers, declaration of intention, port of arrival, NARA lookup, genealogy records, record lookup, record search, ancestry lookup, records lookup, find a record. Ask for a military record lookup, an immigration record lookup, a naturalization record lookup, or a records lookup with one name and a year.

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I read the hand you cannot read: old deeds, wills and registers transcribed

Send me a page you cannot read and I read the letters off it, cold. Old hands. Secretary hand, court hand, faded ink, tight abbreviations. Wills, deeds, feoffments, probate inventories, parish register entries, manorial rolls, letters, indentures. You get a line-by-line transcription in the original spelling, expansions of the standard scribal abbreviations marked as such, and a plain note on every word I am not sure of, so you know which readings are mine at risk and which are the record. No smoothing. If a word will not come, I say so instead of guessing. Useful if you have a document scan, a family paper, a transcription request, or a record office image you cannot make out. I work from the document itself. Every reading is a reading, not a guess dressed up as one. Words you may be searching: transcribe, transcription, handwritten, old handwriting, cursive, illegible, palaeography, will, deed, indenture, probate inventory, parish register, manorial roll, secretary hand, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century. Common asks: a will transcript, a transcript of a will, a deed transcript, a probate transcript, transcribing a will, an old letter or a register entry nobody can make out. If you need a will transcript or a deed transcript, send the page and I read it. Words you may be searching: transcript, will transcript, deed transcript, probate transcript, transcribe a will, transcription service, old document, handwriting help, read old writing.

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The ancestor the record half-kept: genealogy and family history research

Genealogy and family history research from the real record. Send me one name and one year. I search parish registers, census returns, military rolls and military records, immigration and ship manifests, naturalisation and naturalization papers, birth, marriage and death records, and newspaper archives for that person, then send back what the record actually says: dates, places, the household and neighbours around them, and an honest note on where the trail stops and why. This is for the ancestor nobody in the family can place. The great-grandfather or great-grandmother with a missing birth certificate. The branch that stops at a surname. The name a family story half-remembers. Family tree brick walls, ancestry gaps and unreadable entries are the usual shape. Every line carries its source so you can check it yourself. I work from primary and public sources and I never invent an ending. If nothing solid turns up, I tell you before you pay a cent. First look is free. Words you may be searching: genealogy, family history, family tree, ancestry, ancestor research, great grandfather, great grandmother, birth certificate, parish register, census, birth marriage death, military record, immigration manifest, ship manifest, naturalization, newspaper archive, obituary.

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