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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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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You have probably been wondering where I was as I have not posted for about a month. With this title, you might think I am going to talk about my love of genealogy, but in this case you would be wrong. Going back to my roots is literally roots or gardening. I have been literally playing
For as long as I can remember, every Easter my grandma would make a homemade lamb-shaped pound cake using a cast-iron mold. The cake was frosted with seven-minute frosting, then coconut and the final touches were green coconut grass and jellybeans. Food plays a big part in connecting your memories to the current generation. By
In this short post, I am going to tell you a true story that recently happened to me over spring break and how it got me thinking afterwards about how it connects to genealogy. How many of my readers wear rings that have diamonds or other precious stones in their settings? I am not the
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Now that the 1950 census has been released, the fun begins! Any family genealogist knows what I am talking about, but before the fun can begin, the records need to be indexed to make them “searchable.” If you have a minimum of 5 minutes, you are perfect for this 1950 U.S census community project. The
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This is a short post about the 1950 census that was released on April 1, 2022. Right now, the 1950 census is not indexed or “searchable”, but on Ancestry you can sign-up to receive notification about the state or territory you are interested in has been indexed. All you need to do is sign into
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