Hello everyone! How has your week been? Has it been crazy busy or slow and steady? Have you tried your hand at the tips I taught last week about Ancestry and Family Search? It’s super awesome, huh? I really have fun using the card catalog and the Family Search catalog. I hope you are having some good luck with them. If not, then drop me a...
Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org Search Tips
Hello everyone! How’s your week going? I’m excited to be with you for another week! Have you ever searched on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org and they show you a hundred or thousand search results? It can be very overwhelming! Let me tell you about a little known feature on both of them that has helped me be a better and faster researcher.Ancestry.comCard...
Genealogy Travel-Tips and Tricks
It’s travel season everyone! I’ve been feeling the travel bug ever since my neck of the woods has warmed up somewhat. It’s got me thinking about doing some genealogy travel. What is that you ask? It’s where you travel around the world for genealogy purposes. You can travel for researching at archives, for visiting your ancestor’s...
Documenting Our Ancestor’s Lives
Hi,
friends! I hope all is well this week! Any good genealogy gems this week?
Wasn’t RootsTech amazing last week. I learned so much about the different
aspects of genealogy. I want to focus this week on documenting our genealogy. Why
do we search for hours on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org looking for that
elusive record? Why does it matter to...
RootsTech and Becoming a Professional Genealogist
RootsTech logoHello
everyone! How’s it going this week? It’s Roots Tech week! What’s that you say?
It’s a genealogy convention held in Salt Lake City, UT that covers everything genealogy. They have classes on just about everything,
DNA, photos, preservation, tech, regional research, maps, social media, latest
news and trends, etc. They...
Scandinavian Marriage Records-More than just Names
Happy Valentine’s month! I hope you’ve had a great week. I also hope you had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday. We will be talking about Scandinavian marriage records in a minute because marriage records are a great topic to talk about for the month of February. But first let me tell you about my Valentine’s day. It was a normal day...
Your Ancestor’s Marriage Customs and Genealogy
Happy Valentine’s month everyone!
Isn’t it great to celebrate love in all of its forms? Love for a friend, spouse, child, coworker,
neighbor, cousin, aunt, uncle, grandparent, etc. is what we are all about this
month. To me it’s like a second Christmas. I want to feel that warm magical
feeling that makes me love the world. I might be a romantic...
How Pedigree Charts and Family Group Sheets can help you become a better Researcher
Hello everyone! How’s it going
this week? Have you tried starting a research log for your ancestor? How is
that going? What have you learned so far about using this research tool for
organizing your research? Don’t get discouraged if it takes you longer to get a
feel for the research log and how you want to use it. It took me awhile to get
a log...
How Can a Research Log Help Me be a Better Genealogist?
Hey Friends! How’s it going this
week? Any new genealogy discoveries? Any new brick walls? Have you tried
applying new organization tools this week? Anyway, it’s great to share with you
more of what has helped me with my genealogy. So let’s get started!This week I’m sharing another
organizing tool that has really helped me get even better at my research....