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Writing a Family History Book For Your Family Begins With a Plan

The Albuquerque Tribute’s Mary Penner has written “Planning Will Save Your Family History Project”, a really good overview of why and how you need to plan your family history research project. Consider these obstacles: You want to cover 200 or … Continue reading


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Your Brother Kings: Preservation and Dissemination

Your Brother Kinds has an interesting post on “Preservation and dissemination” that caught my eye. Canterbury5 writes about how a recent purchase of old family history documents promotes a great deal of thought and consideration: What I have been thinking … Continue reading


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Bringing History to Life – Annotated Genealogy

The Carroll County Comet of Indiana shares “Bringing Family History to Life” by Jennifer Archibald and tells of Phyllis Hornback Myers and her family history research. Myers doesn’t call herself a genealogist. Myers says her historical research goes beyond genealogy. … Continue reading


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Follesdal’s How To Trace Your Norwegian Ancestry

John Follesdal has provided a great list of 12 articles he’s written on How to Trace Your Norwegian Ancestry, a great aid to anyone researching their family history back to Norway. The articles cover a wide range of information to … Continue reading


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For Our Children’s Children: Journaling Family Memories

I tried forms. I tried interviews. Some family members are really cooperate, sharing what they know and have willingly. Others are definitely more challenging and not so open. After a bit of trial and error, I found a book that … Continue reading


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Genealogy Research on the Google Directory

Have you explored Google Directory? It’s like Google the search engine but is categorized as a directory, helping you find information and resources by category, topic, and subject rather than keywords. It’s more like a Yellow Pages for websites. Based … Continue reading


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Family Tree Maker Website Feature Can Be Difficult To Use

Dana Huff’s Family History Blog makes an interesting point about using the Family Tree Maker website feature to upload information from the Family Tree Legends software program to the Family History site, and making your own websites with Family Tree … Continue reading


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The Mysteries and Joys of the Family Cookbook

NPR Radio’s “Kitchen Window” series featured “Dog-Eared Cookbook Relays Mother-in-Law’s Love” recently, a wonderful radio essay about how the life of a mother continues after her death due to the heritage left behind in a cookbook. A few days after … Continue reading


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Genealogy Research With Google Book Search

Google Book Search offers a way to help genealogists find online books and information to aid in their family history research. If you choose to search All books you will be given a list of all books within Google’s book … Continue reading


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Google Offers Historical Newspaper and Archive Searches

Google now offers timeline listings of Google News Archive Search. This is a great way of searching historical newspapers and documents for your mention of your ancestors. Many of those search results currently come from NewspaperARCHIVE.com. Your Portal to the … Continue reading


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