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Chapter IV

One small task a week

A practical job you can do in a week with free records. Societies are welcome to print them in their newsletter.

This week's challenge · Week 1

One person, two census ages

Pick one ancestor and find them in two censuses at least ten years apart. Work out a birth year from each age and see whether they agree.

See this week's steps
Week 2

Read one gravestone properly

 Week 3

Every way to spell a surname

 Week 4

Decode an old cause of death

 Week 5

Follow an immigrant's arrival year

 Week 6

Find the newspaper notice

 Week 7

Untangle a date before 1752

 Week 8

Read one will from start to finish

 Week 9

Open a soldier's pension file

 Week 10

Learn the long s

 Week 11

Name a cousin relationship

 Week 12

Check the day of the week