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August 5, 2010

Set in Stone?

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Two years ago I wrote a blog post called A GRAVE MISTAKE   It was about how you can't always be positive that what is written on a tombs...
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August 4, 2010

Genealogy Without Sources is Mythology!

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And yet another in a series of articles I wrote several years ago about the importance of verifying records found online. This article was w...
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August 3, 2010

Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are

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Recently I purchased a small silver-plated ornate snuffbox to add to my collection. Engraved on the lid is the name John Blane and the addre...
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August 2, 2010

I Just Found My Great Great Grandfather Online -- Now What!!???

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The subject of verifying information found online has come up many times in the past month. So I've decided to resurrect an article I wr...
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July 31, 2010

Climbing Your Family Tree With A Little Help

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Recently someone sent me an email asking about online family trees. She had found several for her ancestor but they didn't agree with ea...
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July 30, 2010

Too Many Ancestors!

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There are as many ways to organize your genealogy files and documents as there are surname variations. When I first started acquiring more i...
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July 28, 2010

Review of The Journey Takers

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I started reading Leslie Albrecht Huber's book  The Journey Takers last week. It's compelling reading. Leslie has created a story t...
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July 27, 2010

I've Got a Home in Glory Land

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Recently I was contacted by Karolyn Smardz Frost, the author of   I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroa...
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July 26, 2010

Pet Peeve #3: Is Your Answer Relevant?

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Okay I know some readers will disagree with me. But I have to talk about it! We can find many tutorials on writing good genealogy queries bu...
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July 24, 2010

Genealogy Treasure Hunt

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I've been racking my brains for more genealogy ideas to entertain (and brainwash in a genealogical way) my grandchildren this summer. My...
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July 23, 2010

Online Volunteers Index a Whopping 100 Million Records Already This Year

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PRESS RELEASE 22 July 2010 Online Volunteers Index a Whopping 100 Million Records Already This Year FamilySearch Indexing is excited to ...
July 22, 2010

How To Create a Photo Collage in Picasa

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Step 1: Open Picasa and scroll to the folder that contains your scanned photos. Here's mine with some Hallowe'en pictures of my kids...
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July 21, 2010

Creating Photo Collages with Picasa - another step to organizing and preserving Family Photos

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Organization of my family photos (post 1970) is done! Thanks to my wonderful readers I had many suggestions on how best to accomplish this s...
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July 19, 2010

Thank you Hendrick!

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346 years ago my 9th great grandfather, Hendrick Meesen Vrooman , set sail from Amsterdam Netherlands to New Amsterdam (now New York City) i...
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July 17, 2010

REVIEW: GedView for the Ipad

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GedView is one of several genealogy programs available for the Ipad. I'm going to be reviewing most, if not all, of these programs. I...
July 15, 2010

Finding Doris - another bracelet needs to be returned to family

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Freda wrote to ask for my help in tracking down the owner or descendants of the woman whose Identity bracelet Freda has. In her email Freda ...
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July 14, 2010

We did it! Reuniting a MIA American soldier's dog tags with family

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Recently I was asked for help finding an American MIA from WW2 whose dog tags were found in Germany. Alex in Germany wrote to tell me abo...
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July 13, 2010

Where There's a Will....

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No this blog post isn't about death records or wills. It's about not giving up. My photo organization (or lack of!) has been upper...
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July 12, 2010

Taking A Trip Down Memory Lane

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Readers may recall that last week I asked for help organizing and preserving my family photos. Not the 19th Century ones or the pics of my m...
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July 9, 2010

What I Do - Sometimes Right, Sometimes Not So Right

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Thomas, on the Geneabloggers blog, posted an interesting Meme . I've been enjoying reading the contributions of other bloggers who are j...