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Don’t forget the card catalog
After replying to a request from an Ancestry.com message for some information on a shared ancestor, I started doing a little more digging on that particular line. In my web searching, I happened to stumble across a county history/biography/genealogy that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry.com, family history, Family History Library, FamilySearch, genealogy
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Tech Tuesday – Evernote, I’m finally using it
I know this isn’t something new to most of the genealogy community….or probably to any community by now. It just hasn’t been something I’ve felt I had a need for. Recently though, I discovered a need to keep a large … Continue reading
You may not be searching all the records at FamilySearch
How do you use FamilySearch for family history research? Do you search from the home screen? Do you use the newer filtering search they’ve implemented? Have you ever browsed through or search their list of collections? FamilySearch has over 2 billion … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration Records, Military Records, U.S. Census, Vital Records
Tagged family history, FamilySearch, genealogy
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RootsTech 2012 Sessions I’m considering
FamilySearch released their ‘first batch’ of announced sessions this week. There’s something about each of these that interests me. Particularly, the sessions on Genealogy 2.0/social media, uses of Android technology in genealogy, QR codes, copyright law, and using the Library … Continue reading
I’m going to RootsTech 2012
I got my registration finalized today for RootsTech 2012. I’m really excited about attending. Last year I tried to participate online as much as I could with web streams, but it was clear I was missing a lot that was … Continue reading
New Display for FamilySearch?
Last week I received an email invitation to take part in a research survey from FamilySearch. It concerned the way information would be displayed for an individual and their family members. It’s easier to show you the two proposed displays … Continue reading
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Tagged family history, Family tree, FamilySearch, genealogy
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Legacy Family Search now works with Windows 7
Recently, Legacy Family Tree released an update to version 7.5.0.105. If you’ve tried Legacy before, but use Windows 7, like me, you’ve discovered that the FamilySearch integration feature didn’t work. I’ve shunned genealogy software for sometime and have done all … Continue reading
Cemetery “Data Mining”
Call it a method. Call it a resource. Whatever you call it, I’ve stumbled into something that is providing a wealth of information about non-direct line ancestors. Depending on the amount of information one has in their personal genealogy, I … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Records, Death Records, Marriage Records, Technology, U.S. Census
Tagged cemetery, genealogy
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Exporting from Ancestry.com to NFS
One of the biggest drawbacks to using New Family Search (NFS) for me has always been documenting information with sources. It is, without a doubt, the clunkiest part of the user interface in NFS. I started using NFS in 2008 … Continue reading
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Movies
When I was a kid my best friend and I used to go to the movies all the time…especially during the summer. The theater was in a very large outdoor shopping center
Family History Alive 