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Genealogy Today has a review of several online US Federal Census resources including Census Online, Census Finder, Ancestry.com, and Genealogy.com. There are two types of online census sites, free and paid. First, let’s look at a couple of free sites: … Continue reading →

Genealogy Today has an interesting article on “Finding and Using Church Records” that had a few surprises in it for me. During the 1930s, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) planned an inventory of all U.S. church records. Because too many … Continue reading →

I’m still learning a lot about how to best research ancestors and family members and I was very intrigued by this detailed story of researching a mystery family member by Craig Manson of GeneaBlogie. Our task is to track a … Continue reading →

The Ancestry Daily News article on “Using Ancestry.com: Locating Ancestral Origins” is packed with helpful resources and information on tracking the origins of your ancestors, specifically those who just arrived in the county. To the non-genealogist, the town of origin … Continue reading →

The 24/7 Family History Circle has a great tip from the pros on reading the Census records on Ancestry.com that may save you some time and effort. Most of us are slow to read everything on a computer monitor, so … Continue reading →

Working with The Master Genealogist (TMG) computer program, I’m often working with a group of people, switching between different people’s information as I check on the information on each and add new information or sources. These are often family members, … Continue reading →

Here is the challenge. Planning a trip to Wisconsin to dig into the Anderson and Knapp family roots, and I wanted to use my genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG), to help me print out reports on locations within Wisconsin. … Continue reading →

One of my grandfather’s was a teacher and in his early, romantic years, he fancied himself a poet. Unfortunately, while we have a lot of his handwritten poetry from the 1930s, most of them were not his own. Grandfather copied … Continue reading →

The Lifewriter’s Digest offers “Who is Writing Your Memoirs”, an interesting twist on thinking about writing your memoirs and autobiography. The same internal debate occurs as you writing your memoirs. You have many parts vying for authorship of your memoir, … Continue reading →

In an interesting newspaper editorial, Sarri Gilman in the The Herald talked about the lies her grandparents told her: It is disappointing when beliefs we hold close to our hearts turn out to be not worthy of our aspirations. Sometimes … Continue reading →