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It’s Never Too Early or Late to Build Your Family Tree
It doesn’t matter how old you are, it is never too early or too late to start researching your family tree. As a precious example, Krystle, a 20ish year old student, made a chart of her family tree and posted … Continue reading
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Tips for Attending or Presenting a Genealogy Clinic
In an interesting article on The Genealogy Clinic, Genealogy Education blog offers an explanation of a Genealogy Clinic: A clinic is one way to follow up a lecture by providing individual consultations on individual research problems. Let’s say that I … Continue reading
Give the Gift of DNA Testing For the Holidays
Thinking of giving the gift of DNA testing to family members this year? Giving them the joy of researching their ancestors through their blood lines? Genetics and Health offers a list of the prices for DNA testing on the CNA … Continue reading
Finding Geographical Place Names in Canada
Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter has helped me again with “Placed in Canada”, helping all of us researching online maps of towns and communities in Canada find them. Have you looked for online maps of towns or other named places in Canada? … Continue reading
Why a Genealogical Society Should Blog
I love researching genealogical and historical information, and I’ve found that many genealogy societies and associations are fantastic resources to help me track down my family’s history, especially when it comes to regional information. What I HATE about many genealogical … Continue reading
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TMG Primary Tags Help Control Printed Reports
Entering data into The Master Genealogist (TMG) genealogy program is becoming easier for me. Getting data out is a little more complex. One of the issues that came up recently for me was understanding the issue of “Primary” tags and … Continue reading
Will You Soon Be Able to Trace Your DNA Ancestry Back to Neanderthals?
Discovery News announces the “Neanderthal Genome Being Mapped”, a bit of news that will certainly help turn the future of DNA research, as well as archeology, on its ear. A bone fragment that scientists had initially ignored has begun to … Continue reading
Medieval Cookery: Cooking and Recipes From the Medieval Times of Europe
I recently wrote about exploring ethnic grocery stores to uncover your ancestor’s food preferences and habits, so why not also explore even further back than your great-grandmother’s favorite ethnic holiday meal and go back to the times circa 900-1500, known … Continue reading
Research Your Family History Through Business Card Collections
I’m learning so much about the various ways people can research their family’s history and was stunned to find out that there is a Historical Business Card Collection that can be researched by name to find out which businesses your … Continue reading
Mining the Wealth of Online Genealogy Data
In an article by Lan N. Nguyen of the Wall Street Journal, republished in the Post-Gazette Business News and Technology, the article “Going Online to Mine Wealth of Genealogy Data” reviews some Internet sites that offer to help you research … Continue reading
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