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Category: General Genealogy
You Can Too Read Foreign Language Records!
One of the laments I’ve heard ever since I used to host Portuguese genealogy chat on AOL is “But, I don’t know Portuguese (insert your favorite language) so I can’t research the records. Well, I say “Hogwash!” I don’t know any language but English and some question my expertise in that language. Yet, I’ve been…
Finding Your Best Research Method
I used to take copious notes while sitting at a microfilm reader doing research. The main reason was that in most cases I couldn’t make copies of the documents I was viewing. My notes were my source to work from when I got home. Even when I made copies of documents, I’d bring them back…
East Coast Friends and Family: Please be safe!
Hurricane Sandy is pounding the East Coast tonight like nothing we have ever seen. I was following Twitter #Sandy tonight and hearing some terrible stories. The photos are mind boggling. I don’t know what we will see tomorrow when the water recedes and the storm passes by. I saw on Twitter that California’s Governor Brown…
It’s Family History Month
I bet you didn’t know that genealogist have a month all to themselves. October is Family History Month. What better time to than now to start a family tree, kick start your research, or share what you’ve learned with the younger generation. It’s a good time to refocus my effots. I hope to use this…