Genealogy Software – How to get the most out of it
Along with millions of other people, I’m a user of Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com genealogy software. You can view genealogy software as a place to collect names and dates or you can really use the...
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The Best Genealogy Gift Ever
Digital Camera? Nope! Ancestry software? Nothing so trivial! Would you believe an old restaurant menu? Believe it. Our ancestry is almost entirely in the UK so we have been swapping information with...
View ArticleGenealogy — Sometimes You Just Get lucky
I have said before that you really need to spend time on the more recent ancestors to make your data as solid as possible before moving on. Do not take anything for granted, not even your name. I was...
View ArticleFree Genealogy on the Web
There are many people who don’t like the notion that companies are making money off our ancestors. I couldn’t agree more. Also, what gives Governments the right to ask me to pay for my own family’s...
View ArticleSearching for Ancestors in the Aftermath of Culloden
My new years resolution for 2007 is to track my father’s ancestral line back to 1745. That is a very significant date in Scottish history and my personal ancestry. It is the year when Bonnie Prince...
View ArticleScotland Genealogy Web Site
Scotlands People is a web site designed by the Scottish government to enable online record searching. I tried it out this past weekend with mixed success. If you are interested in Scottish Ancestors...
View ArticleScotland Genealogy — Part 2
In a recent post I talked about my experience with Scotlandspeople.gov.uk. This is the official site for Scottish records. I was a little disparaging about being nickled and dimed. I have returned to...
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Genealogy News
If you ever wondered how anyone can read those old gravestones you are not alone. Rubbings work to a point but when the stones are really, really old there is only one thing to do; call in Carnegie...
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Grooming Gravesites from Afar
We live in Florida while the rest of our family either lives in Indiana or, if no longer living, are interred in Indiana. If you too have deceased loved ones who are buried far from where you live or...
View ArticleMusings on Next Christmas
Well, here it is January 25th already, only 11 more shopping months till Christmas! What will the economy be like by then, do you suppose? Will it be better than last Christmas which was just a month...
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