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Writing Family Reunion Letters
Dana Huff has a great post on writing “Family Reunion Letters” as part of your family reunion plans. Once you have collected as many addresses as possible, send copies of the family group sheet chart to each family. Ask that … Continue reading
Google Releases Tesseract OCR Open Source Software
SearchEngineWatch announces “Google Opens Tesseract OCR Software”, which is exciting news for those of us who scan or want to covert a lot of documents to text: The Google Code Blog announced that Google has “re-released” the Tesseract OCR software … Continue reading
Asking for Help on Your Genealogy Blog
Dana Huff’s Family History blog has an interesting category of posts called Research Questions. It is a collection of posts that asks questions, and invites answers, about the topics that puzzle her and her family about their ancestors. In “Johnson … Continue reading
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Desktop Publishing Your Family History Book or Album
About.com’s Desktop Publishing section has a series of articles about using Desktop Publishing to publish your family history book, including examining software, building narratives, making charts, displaying and arranging photographs and other documents, and getting your family history book published. … Continue reading
How Long Between Immigration and Naturalization in the US?
According to the Federal Naturalization Act of 1802, three years of residency were required before someone could file for a Declaration of Intent to become a citizen of the United States. The Federal Naturalization Act of 1824 reduced the time … Continue reading
Memorial Inscriptions, Parish, and Church Records Help Trace Family Roots
“Why are memorial inscriptions (MIs) important and what can they tell us that other records can’t?”, by 50Connect.co.uk, is an interesting look at parish registers and church records that can help you trace your family’s roots. For family historians, MIs … Continue reading
Primary versus Secondary Sources: Research Until You Think It’s Right
Dana Huff writes about “Primary Sources Versus Secondary Sources” in an interesting educational post. If you have been researching your family history, you may have run into the classic pitfall. Primary sources can be expensive to obtain and difficult to … Continue reading
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When is the Best Time to Preserve Family History? Now.
When is the best time to preserve your family’s history? Now. A lovely example of why to protect your family’s history is found in the article, “Too much easily collectible family history is lost” from Payson Roundup: We had a … Continue reading
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Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History
According to initial reviews, the newly updated book by Mark Herber, “Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History”, is bigger and better with the new and expanded edition. And it is also available in paperback. “Ancestral … Continue reading
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Building a Genealogy Blog
I’ve started a series of articles on building a genealogy and family history blog on one of my other blogs, Lorelle on WordPress. In this series, I discuss how a genealogy blog differs from a normal blog and how to … Continue reading
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