Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
Okay, so I didn’t blog at all. Excuse me if I was a bit distracted. I have good reason. Three new cousins found me this week and I’ve been awash in new details, photographs, and research. One of my reason I blog is about my ancestors is to share my research experience. But equally important…
I know that it is easy to get discouraged when researching your family tree. Sometimes it seems you search and search and get nowhere. Databases don’t include your ancestors. When they do, they don’t reveal the one bit of information you were hoping for. But, my best advice to those who are frustrated is to…
Randy has supplied us with another intriguing Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. This challenge involves looking at how old my 2nd great grandparents lived to be. I enjoy these types of challenges as they give me a different way of looking at my genealogy. I cheated and let RootsMagic 7 Family Tree Genealogy Software do the…
Geography is important in genealogy. Knowing where your ancestors lived at any given times provides context to your family tree. But, people cannot be in two places at the same time. How is this possible? Online family trees, of course. Through the power of creating one’s own narrative, my relatives manage to be in California…
A cousin shared some of her unknown photographs with me. One was taken around 1915-1920 and was labeled “My nephew Freddy with his first pair of short pants”. We almost missed identifying little Freddy because the real relationship with the person who owned the photograph was different than the note implied. In order to solve…