So, you have taken the AncestryDNA® test and have a tree on Ancestry. What else can you do to help figure out how you are related to your DNA cousins? Just like with your tree, you can invite people and give them the right access level to help you figure out your DNA relationships. I […]
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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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Sometimes my posts will have nothing to do with genealogy, so I think, but it ends up that anything that you do is genealogy. You might not consider it genealogy, but if you are living it, then someday maybe a family member will document it. In my case, I am going to beat my
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
Hello Reader, You must be interested in genealogy if you are reading my post. I believe anything can be included in your family genealogy because you are not only learning about the past but also documenting your current family history. Ancestry is not just about documents and dates; it’s about that you and your ancestors
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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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If you are like me, the Energizer Bunny, you keep going and going, and before you know it, your tree is over 25,000! What I can say about my tree is that I started with only knowing up to my great-grandparents and now I am going back in some lineages to the 1600’s. Now that
Have you ever searched for information where you need some help in how to find the records or maybe cross a language barrier? Maybe you are new to genealogy and need some research resources to get started. Whenever I am having research problems or need a resource, my number one place to go to find
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Some of the recipes from the Pickle Patch are family favorites, while others might be new recipes that get the “Very Good” approval, then gets entered in my cookbook that I keep with all my notes along with any changes. This recipe, we have only been making since 2009, so not a family heirloom recipe
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