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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Let’s be honest, ancestry companies are expensive, and with all the programs you might want to do your research properly, the subscriptions costs can add up. To keep costs down you will need to time your research with great offers. In this post, I will go over some simple hints I have learned over the
If you are new to ancestry, and especially to Ancestry.com, you might be wondering how to create the right access level to your tree. You might be saying ‘huh? What do you mean by access levels?’ Having different access capabilities for people, you are better able to control how much they can view of your
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Two simple genealogy strategies to make things happen are communication and collaboration. You might be thinking ‘what does communication and collaboration have to do with My Genealogy Tree?’ Plenty, to make things happen! Some of the simplest things can give you the biggest impact to your tree. You will: Learn from each other Share documents,
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If you are new to genealogy, you might not know about virtual cemetery memorials. Virtual cemeteries are cemeteries that are online, that you can view a loved one’s grave at your convenience on any computer or mobile devices as long as you have an internet connection. Some historical societies will make it a society project
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As I write this article, our family is getting ready for Christmas where we have both old traditions and, this year, a new tradition being added. When we were first married, we had to blend both our traditions, and to make it fair we would alternate every year going to one side of our family
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Looking at genealogy trees online, I can often see at a glance which trees spend more time focusing on details and which don’t. Here are some simple questions to ask yourself to see how well you are doing: When looking at hints or records you find, do you actually open the record up and examine
Welcome, readers to part 4 of the beginner series, “How to: Research Your Personal Genealogy Tree For Free-4!”. Before I tell you about the final result in the mystery of William Read’s Baptism, I want to personally apologize for not posting on time for the week of Thanksgiving. I am sure you can relate to
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This year, for once, I didn’t have to work on Black Friday and I am doing my happy dance, glad to spend as much time as I want with my family. If you never worked retail, you are lucky. For the last 17 years, my life was on hold every Thanksgiving, unable to travel and
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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