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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Welcome back to my second beginner blog post on how to research your personal genealogy tree for free!. In this post, I will show you how I like to research records that are on FamilySearch using just your free FamilySearch account. In my previous blog post, “How To: Research Your Personal Genealogy Tree For Free!”,
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If you are new to genealogy, this blog will be focused on the beginner ancestry researcher and a very important topic for them: how to start your research for free. Yes, for free! All you need to do is signup for a free account. Let’s get started! 1: How to Find FamilySearch If you do
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In my previous blog, I went over How To Plan/Prepare Your Visit To The Renowned FHL, but what if you can’t visit the Family History Library (FHL). Good news! Family History Library-FHL has you covered with their new record lookup service. This service started due to Covid-19, but now that the Family History Library and
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At some point in your genealogy journey you will likely need or want to visit the renowned Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City, Utah. My first visit was in 2008, which I will call “the spark”. At this point I was not the family genealogist and was in Salt Lake City to pickup my
In Part One, I showed you step-by-step how use the film number that was cited on an Ancestry Index record to view the original digitized document on FamilySearch. In this blog I will show you what you need to do when you can’t view the original digitized document on FamilySearch with using the film number
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