About Documents
Marriage
records, military records, census records, and death
certificates can be a treasure trove of information. However, they are
very
often full of errors and inconsistencies. Spelling errors can make them
difficult to find. The name Mikkelsen has been spelled in ways you
could not
imagine. Sometimes I think people lied about their age. Sometimes the
recorders were careless, or their handwriting was illegible. When
I overcome all those obstacles, I get really excited when I discover
missing
pieces of the tree.
Most of the 1890 census was destroyed in a fire in 1921 in the basement of theCommerce Building Washington , D.C. April 2, 2012 http://www.1930census.com/1940_census.php. The
National Archives does not release census records for 72 years for the privacy of
the participants. The records I put on this web site are just a sampling
of what I have gathered. For a complete list of sources for each individual,
see our family tree at http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mikkelsensmith.
Most of the 1890 census was destroyed in a fire in 1921 in the basement of the
