Reading glasses, also known in the United States as “Cheaters”, are glasses one can buy over the counter make it easier to read without prescription glasses. You can apply the same strategy for transcribing ancestry documents. No, I don’t mean for you to buy “Cheaters”; what I mean is, here are six easy “cheaters” that […]
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In my previous blog posts: Do Special Holiday/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common? and How to Add Photo Media to Your Ancestry Tree, I discussed why storytelling/memories should be added to your tree in the media forms of either a PDF or photo and how to do so. In this blog I will continue
In my recent blog: “Do Special Holidays/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common?“, I mentioned that the storytelling should be attached to your online ancestry tree as either a document or a photo. In this “How to” tutorial, I will walk you through the process of how to add photo media to your tree in
Inspect My Favorite Links Genealogy and DNA Websites My links are listed in alphabetical order, but my number one favorite is FamilySearch.org. Why? I find the actual records using their catalog. Another big reason is it’s free! I have my main tree housed on Ancestry since that’s where I started my tree. For the most
I haven’t paid much attention to Ancestry as I have been working steadily on my research on my maternal grandfather’s mother’s lines through the records on FamilySearch. I finally figured out which Michael Kubinski was mine, which I mentioned in my AI article. Since I figured this puzzle out and decided I’d better get cracking
You are probably thinking that something broke on my new computer, and I lost my genealogy work. I can safely say my computer is fine, but my genealogy thumb drive is toast. To me this was a freak accident as I have never had a thumb drive break. This drive is but one of many
If you have read my other articles about the Pickle Patch, you might wonder how this season is doing. And I would say, we are doing better than last year. One thing we learned was that timing is everything. I still struggle with timing. Have you ever gotten caught up in a different planting zone?
Recently, while volunteering at my local FamilySearch Center, a new patron came by. She has a professional business where she locates documents for her clients to qualify for certain societies. She mentioned SAR and DAR, and I have to confess that I drew a blank of what SAR was. Of course, once she told me
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In my first post on this blog, I talked about why I started my tree in 2009 and how I needed a tree to figure out how I was related to my DNA cousins. You can say I learned genealogy and citing my sources on the fly. Do I cite like a professional genealogist? Probably
In a previous post, I discussed how to add media to your tree, but what if you want to keep a record you find on Ancestry that you want to store on your personal computer and then re-upload to Ancestry. You are probably saying ‘huh’ to the re-uploading. I will explain it in my post,
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