It’s great to hear stories about Family Historians. We read about their successes and what they’ve learned in their journeys as family historians. Here’s the story of Miles Meyer, Family Historian, of Vero Beach, Florida.
In 2018, it’s more important than ever to protect your personal data on the Internet. How can you make sure your information is protected and you’re safe. Check out some of these helpful tips to stay safe online.
When working through any search on the internet, we all have our methods for searching databases. Some searches may be easy depending on the criteria or sometimes we may need to manipulate our keywords to get exactly (or as close as possible) to what we’re actually looking for. It can be frustrating and time-consuming. But, is there a way to…
In December 2016, Ipublished this blog which introduced you to the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) organization. Then, in March 2017, this blog summarizes the DAR’s involvement with genealogy research. Today’s final blog highlights how the French Daughters of the American Revolution came to be from the French involvement in the American Revolution.
As a genealogist or just casually spending time doing family research, you may spend a lot of time on social media in groups or pages related to genealogy. One thing that you may see often are questions regarding privacy in regards to their social media profiles and with their online family trees on whatever service they may be using.
You may have seen TV commercials for the website called Angie’s List that offers a list of approved websites for home services. Did you know that there is a website called Cyndi’s List that is a complete resource for thousands of websites that are genealogy related?
Finding death records and even visiting cemeteries to learn about our ancestors can be an important piece to genealogy research. Sometimes visiting a cemetery just isn’t possible because of travel or other limitations. Here’s a website that has a mission to document every headstone from every cemetery in the world in their searchable online database with an image and…
We reached out to the online community to find out what people’s favorite heirloom is and what it means to them. Read about the fantastic heirlooms these four people had to share.
One day when I was in elementary school, maybe 6th grade or so, I was over at my friend’s house playing. It was Christmas time and I noticed a weird ornament on her tree. It was a pickle. But what kind of Christmas tree ornament is a vegetable preserved in vinegar?
“The Day That Would Live in Infamy” ~ Franklin D. Rooselvelt December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor, the day the United States officially entered WWII. It was this day in history exactly 75 years ago that 2,403 Americans were killed in this attack at Pearl Harbor located on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Pearl Harbor event records are…
