Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
Did you know that the Direcao Regional da Cultura website includes a number of indexes for various parish (paroquiais) baptismal records? There are many indexes covering a range of years to explore. What’s Available in the Collection? Before you get too excited, it’s not every parish every year. What’s available right now is a smattering…
I’m late to the show. Unlike millions of others, I didn’t have a family tree on Ancestry.com until about a month ago. Since I did a DNA test with AncestryDNA, I decided to add portions of my tree as cousin bait. While I appreciated the suggestions that the system makes for potential parents, I soon…
The New York Times has created a nifty map. It shows migrations within the United States in 1900, 1950, and 2012. New Insights into Migration Patterns I love these little insights into the world. It is especially interesting when we can compare o a time when our ancestors were in a certain place at a…
MyHeritage DNA made a lot of genealogists happy in January 2018 by adding a chromosome browser. This allowed users to see what chromosome sequence they shared with DNA matches. But, it was limited to seeing only one match at a time. The newest update allows you to compare multiple matches to each other, thus making…
Have you heard of Flipboard? Flipboard is a social media app that allows you to collect articles and blog posts in magazine format. To save an item, you “flip” it. You can share these items publicly or keep them to yourself. It’s a great way to save articles you want to go back to or…