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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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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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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