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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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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


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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


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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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