One tool I easily use everyday in my ancestry research is the computer screenshot application called Snip & Sketch, formerly called Snipping Tool. All computers have screenshot tools that come on your computer and if you don’t have one you can easily download a screenshot application in your computer apps. My goal is to show […]
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Do you ever get stuck on an ancestry problem where you have no one to ask about it or you feel uncomfortable always emailing your friend for help? Now, I could schedule a free 20-minute consultation, which I have done once. Sometimes, though, I just need to buckle down and work on whatever the problem
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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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Has this ever happened to you, where, based on the evidence, you think you have something spelled correctly, but it ends up being wrong. This happened to me recently and, if you know me, I had to go the extra mile to get my result. My result surprised me. Let me tell you about it
At some point in your genealogy journey you will likely need or want to visit the renowned Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City, Utah. My first visit was in 2008, which I will call “the spark”. At this point I was not the family genealogist and was in Salt Lake City to pickup my
In part one of this blog I will guide you in how to further your ancestry tree with using Catalog Search on FamilySearch. FamilySearch is a free website and all that is required is to setup a free account. Once that is done, then FamilySearch will let you get started with searching. If you mainly
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No the banana cake is not rotten nor for that matter are the bananas. This is the cake recipe name my mother gave for using up really ripe bananas. I think she would say this to get a rise out of her family and friends. As bananas ripen, they develop more brown spots, turn sweeter
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