Jose Mier’s Sun Valley Family Roots Through Social Security Applications
From the Social Security Death Index to original SS-5 applications, Jose Mier explores how twentieth-century federal records can reveal parents’ names, birthplaces, and new clues for family history research.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Using Historical Gazetteers to Pinpoint an Ancestor’s Lost Hometown
A place name in an old family document can be the key to an entire branch of genealogy. From Sun Valley, Jose Mier explores historical gazetteers, shifting borders, and practical ways to identify an ancestor’s hometown.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Preserving Family Stories Through Oral History Interviews
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how oral history interviews can preserve relatives’ memories, uncover new genealogical leads, and add human context to the facts in a family tree.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Preserving Family Memories Through Oral History Interviews
From Sun Valley, amateur genealogist Jose Mier explores how interviewing relatives, recording family memories, and checking stories against historical records can uncover new clues and preserve a family’s voice for future generations.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Finding Family Connections Through Cemetery Records
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how cemetery inscriptions, burial registers, plot maps, and nearby graves can reveal family relationships and provide new leads for genealogical research.
Jose Mier: Tracing Family History Through Military Records
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how draft cards, enlistment files, service records, and military pensions can reveal family relationships, migration clues, and the lives behind names in a family tree.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Using Historical Land Maps to Discover Family Connections
Jose Mier explores how historical plat maps, landownership atlases, and fire insurance maps can reveal where ancestors lived, identify neighbors, and add context to family history research.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Unlocking Family Stories Through Probate Records
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores how wills, estate files, guardianship papers and other probate records can reveal family relationships, migration clues and forgotten connections in genealogical research.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Following Ancestors Through Land Deeds and Property Records
Jose Mier explores how land deeds, homestead records and property documents can reveal family relationships, migration patterns, addresses and overlooked clues in genealogical research.
Jose Mier Sun Valley: Following Ancestors Through Passenger Lists and Port Records
Jose Mier explores how passenger lists and port records can help genealogists connect American ancestors to their places of origin and uncover the migration stories behind a family tree.