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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In part one of this blog I will guide you in how to further your ancestry tree with using Catalog Search on FamilySearch. FamilySearch is a free website and all that is required is to setup a free account. Once that is done, then FamilySearch will let you get started with searching. If you mainly
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What do know about Ancestry media posting and privacy when you decide to take down, for example, a photo from your public tree? This is something I really didn’t know anything about until recently. This is what happened. I decided to make a photo private with my Family Tree Maker software. Yes, the photo no
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Ancestry® makes it super easy to add web links to anyone in your personal ancestry tree, whether it is public or a private. In my blogs: Do Special Holidays/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common? and How To Make Rotten Banana Cake That is Oh… So Good!, I mentioned that capturing the memories of loved ones or
One tool I easily use everyday in my ancestry research is the computer screenshot application called Snip & Sketch, formerly called Snipping Tool. All computers have screenshot tools that come on your computer and if you don’t have one you can easily download a screenshot application in your computer apps. My goal is to show
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This blog is a “How to” stay safe when logging onto ancestry websites when on a public computer. Recently, while I was volunteering at my Family History Center, I was about to log onto Ancestry when I noticed it had already populated a name and password. The problem was that it wasn’t me, but a
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This feature photo you might think is a remembrance for Veteran’s or Remembrance Day. For me it is a remembrance for my mom. There was a certain section in her vegetable garden that she always had her poppies. I recently found an old packet of poppy seeds that my mother gave me probably over 30
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In the previous blogs I have been going step by step on how to add your story/memory or a photo with a story to a person in your tree by using several media methods with Ancestry® . In this blog I will show you how to convert a PDF to a JPG file type so
In my previous blog posts: Do Special Holiday/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common? and How to Add Photo Media to Your Ancestry Tree, I discussed why storytelling/memories should be added to your tree in the media forms of either a PDF or photo and how to do so. In this blog I will continue
