Finding RootsTech 2022 on the web is easy but, once there, you immediately get overwhelmed with all that there is to learn and do. Remember there is no hurry, as all the classes and speakers’ videos are on RootsTech for approximately 3 years. Right now, there are over a 1000+ classes, workshops and activities that […]
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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
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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One thing you may not know about me is that I’m an early riser. Usually I am up around 5am. Yes, this is super early, but I have been doing this a long time. When I was working, it was my research time before work. Yes, I was very obsessed with my genealogy. Being an
Recently, while working on my tree, I realized I was a recipient of a random act of genealogy kindness, and I naturally passed on this kindness onto someone else. Sometimes these random acts are a genealogy breakthrough for the recipient. Which happened to me and, in turn, the person I helped. Here is what happened
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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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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
Welcome to the third post in my beginner series using a great website called FamilySearch. In this post, I will continue to show you my personal way to research your genealogy tree for free. Specifically, in this post I will be showing how I like to examine the facts in the record using only FamilySearch
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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
