It took me a few years to discover Family Tree Maker software that makes genealogy so much easier to keep a hardcopy of your entire work. Family Tree Maker is a genealogical software made by The Software MacKiev Company. The program is designed to specifically sync to Ancestry® . Even though my tree is always on […]
Have you ever created a detailed tree while helping a friend, family member or acquaintance? What I mean by detailed tree is adding actual digital photos of documents, portrait photos or other sources like a web link to a book, for example. Unfortunately, ancestry companies do not make it easy to transfer entire trees as
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How many of my readers have a tree on FamilySearch? For 13 years I never really had one until I wanted to see/confirm who were my famous relatives using Relative Finder and FamilySearch Family Tree. I made a blog post about how I went through the process of uploading a Gedcom of my tree and
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I wonder if any of my readers still receive a daily newspaper that is delivered to their house. We haven’t had a newspaper delivered for many years as we always read it online. Back in the day, you or a loved one would clip out articles about important family history from the newspapers and put
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In Part One, I showed you step-by-step how use the film number that was cited on an Ancestry Index record to view the original digitized document on FamilySearch. In this blog I will show you what you need to do when you can’t view the original digitized document on FamilySearch with using the film number
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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
Recently on Ancestry, I was looking at my mother’s lines when I saw a hint that went to another tree. This intrigued me as on these lines I can only go back to my 2nd great-grandparents, which their information is very sketchy. Looking at his profile, he was from Germany. Inside, I was thinking ‘yes!
On July 16th, I received a message from my sister on our sibling group text: “Happy Heavenly Birthday Mom!!!” with heart emojis all around. Later, my brother texted “89.” At the time, I was finishing up at the pickle patch, but later I thought of this memory and texted “Wow! One cake I remember her
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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