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Tracing Historical Humans Through Their Teeth
A Yahoo News article from HealthDay Reporter E.J. Mundell discusses how a “tooth finding shakes the human family tree”. Vaporized gas from million-year old tooth enamel is stirring debate on how modern humans’ ancient kin won the evolutionary race. The … 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
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
The Web Helps Make Genealogy Business Big Business
In an article by the Wall Street Journal Startup called “Web Helps to Create Genealogy Businesses”, it tells of how family history researchers are turning their personal skills and experiences into online businesses, helping others find their own family’s roots. … Continue reading
New Collection of Over 100 Million US Immigrants Now on Ancestry.com
Discovery News announces “Immigrant Passenger Logs Now Online”, referring to the digitization and collection process by Ancestry.com to bring together immigration records and collections. The digitization project contains more than 100 million names and is now searchable online, according to … Continue reading
Archaeological Dig Reveals Sulter Store Along Hudson River
The Discovery Channel reports on an 18th Century store evacuated in the Fort Edward area in the Hudson River region near Albany. A five-year-long archaeological project has unearthed the 250-year-old site of a merchant’s establishment that sold wine, rum, tobacco … Continue reading
The Mayflower: The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony
The more I dig into our West family history, the closer I come to linking us to the Mayflower, which is a little intimidating. In a recent post by Dick Eastman of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, he reviews the The … Continue reading
About Genealogy: Creating a Family Cookbook Tips
Kimberly Powell of About Genealogy offers “Creating a Family Cookbook”, a good guide to creating a cookbook that represents the history of flavors and meals in your family to pass down to your descendants and share with other family members: … Continue reading
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Need Serious Genealogy Help? Hire a Professional Genealogist
The Association of Professional Genealogists is one of the leading groups of serious, trained genealogists who helps those searching their past with their research works. They are genealogists for hire. The Association of Professional Genealogists has over 1,600 members who … Continue reading
Random Genealogy: Online Genealogy Collaboration
Random Genealogy’s article on “Online Genealogy Collaboration” reviews several collaborative genealogy programs to help family members work together online to create and maintain their family history websites and genealogy data. They review The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v5, PhpGedView, … Continue reading
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