Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
This is a little belated, but I want to give a shout out to Daniel Loftus at Daniel’s Genealogy. He had a contest in which he gave away two free Ancestry.com All Access 1 Year Subscriptions and I won one!!! I have never had an All Access subscription, so this is pretty exciting stuff! You…
The RootsTech 2022 Genealogy Conference has wrapped up. Frankly, there was just too much going on and I was as overwhelmed as last year. I had a bunch of technical difficulties accessing the conference on my tablet on the last day. The live and pre-recorded sessions all went to a page that suggested they were…
Today is day 2 of RootsTech 2022. I spent less time on the Main Stage and more time in the Expo Hall. I managed to completely screw up the times for the live sessions. I will admit that I am time conversion challenged. I’m pretty bummed I missed Roberta Estes doing her DNA presentation and…
RootsTech 2022, the genealogy conference, wrapped up day one. Before the pandemic, I’d never been to a genealogy conference. This is my second year at RootsTech thanks to it being completely free and virtual. I didn’t get to do everything I wanted to today. It seemed I had a habit of checking in between live…
Now that I know who my great grandfather really is, I’m curious how much the story he invented compares to his real life story. You may know that after 30 years of research I learned that my great grandfather was living in the United States under an alias. Harry Kenneth Jackson was a made up…